Title
Telecardiology: Hurst exponent based anomaly detection in compressively sampled ECG signals
Abstract
Telecardiology systems, involving remote diagnosis of cardiac anomaly based on ECG signals, generally acquire such signals at the Nyquist rate, and transmits the data to diagnostic facilities. Such systems are not designed under either power or bandwidth constraints. However, in certain scenarios involving remote communities in developing and underdeveloped world, both the above constraints could be acute. The present paper takes a first step towards a constrained design keeping such scenarios in view. Specifically, we propose a system where automated classification is performed on the ECG signals, and only anomalous signals are transmitted for further diagnosis and intervention, thereby saving bandwidth. Additionally, we propose compressive sampling as a low-power alternative to traditional Nyquist sampling method, which also lowers bandwidth requirement. Finally, we illustrate our method by designing such a compressive classifier using ECG signals from the widely used PhysioNet database. Specifically, we demonstrate that an average down sampling factor of three leads to desirable classification performance in terms of both sensitivity and specificity while substantially saving both power and bandwidth.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720699
e-Health Networking, Applications & Services
Keywords
Field
DocType
compressed sensing,database management systems,electrocardiography,medical signal detection,signal classification,signal sampling,telemedicine,ECG signal automated classification,Hurst exponent based anomaly detection,Nyquist rate,Nyquist sampling method,PhysioNet database,average down sampling factor,cardiac anomaly remote diagnosis,compressive classifier,compressively sampled ECG signals,telecardiology system,Compressed sensing,ECG signals,Hurst exponent,Self similarity,Wavelets
Anomaly detection,Data mining,Decimation,Computer science,Hurst exponent,Real-time computing,Speech recognition,Bandwidth (signal processing),Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem,Classifier (linguistics),Nyquist rate,Compressed sensing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-5800-2
2
0.39
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bollepalli S. Chandra120.39
Challa S. Sastry2659.51
Soumya Jana319624.89