Automatic detection of artifact in neonatal ECG

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Abstract

Heart Rate Variability derived from the Neonatal Electrocardiogram has been found to be associated with the Electroencephalography grade of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and neurodevelopmental outcome. This association has been established for clean or artifact free ECG. However, it was shown that the Electrocardiogram and subsequently Heart Rate Variability features can be heavily corrupted by artifacts which have to be manually removed. This work combines a set of statistical features to quantify the quality of the HR signal by automatically detecting the artifacts in neonatal ECG. The HRV signal is obtained by detecting R-Peaks using the adapted Pan-Tompkins algorithm. Four features are extracted from HR signal to discriminate normal and corrupted signal. The performance of these features in discrimination is then assessed using statistical tests. It has been shown that there is a significant difference of proposed features between artifact and normal signals (p<0.001). The discrimination power is increased by combing the current features using Support Vector Machine. The median AUC was 0.9941 (IQR: 0.98-1.00).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICBME 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages184-188
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467393515
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Feb 2016
Event22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICBME 2015 - Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Duration: 25 Nov 201528 Nov 2015

Publication series

Name2015 22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICBME 2015

Conference

Conference22nd Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, ICBME 2015
Country/TerritoryIran, Islamic Republic of
CityTehran
Period25/11/1528/11/15

Keywords

  • component
  • ECG
  • feature extraction
  • Heart rate variabilty
  • Support Vector Machine(SVM)

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