Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 468-475Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.875662
Keywords
automatic QRS complex detection; automatic R-peak detection; combination algorithm; ensemble method; Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH); Arrhythmia Database; Pan-Tompkins algorithm; wavelet algorithm
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QRS complex and specifically R-Peak detection is the crucial first step in every automatic electrocardiogram analysis. Much work has been carried out in this field, using various methods ranging from filtering and threshold methods, through wavelet methods, to neural networks and others.. Performance is generally good, but each method has situations where it fails. In this paper, we suggest an approach to automatically combine different QRS complex detection algorithms, here the Pan-Tompkins and wavelet algorithms, to benefit from the strengths of both methods. In particular, we introduce parameters allowing to balance the contribution of the individual algorithms; these parameters are estimated in a data-driven way. Experimental results and analysis are provided on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Beth Israel Hospital (MIT-BIH) Arrhythmia Database. We show that our combination approach outperforms both individual algorithms.
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