Image features of spectral correlation function for arrhythmia classification

Recently, computerized arrhythmia classification tools have been intensively used to aid physicians to recognize different irregular heartbeats. In this paper, we introduce arrhythmia CAD system exploiting cyclostationary signal analysis through estimation of the spectral correlation function for 5 different beat types. Two experiments were performed. Raw spectral correlation data were used as features in the first experiment while the other experiment which dealt with the spectral correlation coefficients as image included extraction of wavelet and shape features followed by fisher score for dimensionality reduction. As for the classification task, Support Vector Machine (SVM) with linear kernel was used for both experiments. The experimental results showed that both proposed approaches are superior compared to several state of the art methods. This approach achieved sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of 99.20%, 99.70%, 98.60%, 99.90% and 97.60% respectively.