Sparse Representation-Based Heartbeat Classification Using Independent Component Analysis

This paper proposes a new method that combines independent component analysis with sparse representation-based classification (SRC) to distinguish eight types of heartbeats, and shows that the proposed method performs better than conventional methods.

Abstract

The classification of heartbeats is crucial to identify an arrhythmia. This paper proposes a new method that combines independent component analysis (ICA) with sparse representation-based classification (SRC) to distinguish eight types of heartbeats. We use ICA to extract useful features from heartbeats. A feature vector consists of 100 ICA features along with a RR interval. We use SRC to compute a sparse representation of a test feature vector with respect to all training feature vectors. The type of a test feature vector is determined using the concentration degree of sparse coefficients on each heartbeat type. For experimental purposes, 9800 heartbeats are extracted from the MIT-BIH electrocardiogram (ECG) database. The results show that our proposed method performs better than conventional methods, with 98.35% accuracy and 94.49%-100% sensitivities to several heartbeat types.