Abstract:
This thesis presents a novel method on a Smart-phone for ECG tele-monitoring signal
analysis. The proposed system focuses on QRS complex detection, beat classification
and arrhythmias classification. In the regular process, the QRS complex is detected
by the Pan-Tompkins algorithm and classified as normal sinus rhythms (SRs) or pre-
mature ventricular contractions (PVCs) by existing classification methods. Subse-
quently, the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) complexity measure, including the K-Means clustering
algorithm and the LZ complexity analysis, is utilized to further separate the high
risk arrhythmias, ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF). In
this procedure of the high risk arrhythmias, three consecutive PVC beats in a row
are considered to be an indication of the beginning of VT rhythms, at which point
the following data points will be saved until up to a certain window length long are
reached. The window length long ECG signal will be further classified as VT or VF
by several new decision rules with heart rate detection. Furthermore, the proposed
system successfully implemented on a Smart-phone adopts the time frames to indicate
the analysis report for improving the reliability and error detection of arrhythmias.
The new analysis method presents fairly good performance results when applied to
testing records chosen from the MIT-BIH database.