Enhanced Arrhythmia Detection Through Wavelet Scattering and Deep Learning Techniques

Authors

L.Suganthi, Associate Professor,
Department of BME, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Kancheepuram, India.

R.Anandha Praba, Assistant Professor,
Department of ECE, Meenakshi College of Engineering, Chennai, India.

E.S.Selva Priya, Assistant Professor,
Department of ECE, KCG College of Technology, Chennai, India.

Abstract

Arrhythmia is a condition where the heart beats irregularly, too fast, or too slow. It can be caused by various factors such as heart disease, high blood pressure, or electrolyte imbalances. Arrhythmia is defined as an irregularity in the heartbeat rhythm. Recently, many people were affected by cardiac diseases, due to covid19 [1]. So, we proposed the deep learning model to automate the detection and classification process to help the doctors for quick results. We use ECG signals that were downloaded from the Physio-Net database as our input. The Dataset undergoes a process to change the signal into a space with many dimensions using some basic functions. Using wavelet scattering, we extract the characteristics. Wavelet scattering is a signal processing technique that decomposes a signal into its constituent waveforms, allowing for the identification of patterns that may indicate arrhythmias. Then converting 1D ECG Signal to 2D scalogram images by using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). Arrhythmia detection is done by using deep learning (Efficientnet-B0) model and compared it with other models such as Efficientnet-B0 with 97.9%, Alexnet model gives 86.67%, Resnet50 by 97.78%, and Densenet with 89.26% accuracy.