An approach of cardiac disease prediction by analyzing ECG signal

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) gives useful information about morphological and functional details of heart which is used to predict various cardiac diseases. In this paper a method of detecting cardiac diseases using support vector machine (SVM) is proposed. In this proposed method diseases are modeled using the time domain features of ECG signal which are extracted using BIOPAC AcqKnowledge software. Raw ECG signal contains these useful features which can be used to detect cardiac arrhythmia. The various ECG parameters like heart rate, QRS complex, PR interval, ST segment elevation, ST interval of ECG signal are used for analysis. Based on these parameters of ECG signal, different heart disease like atrial fibrillation, sinus tachycardia, myocardial infarction and apnea are detected. The individual accuracy of tachycardia arrhythmia, MI arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation arrhythmia and apnea proposed by SVM are 83.3%, 86.4%, 88% and 85.7% respectively.