ECG signal classification based on SVM

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases nowadays represent the most common cause of death in Western countries. Long-term ECG recording is modern method, because it allows to detect sporadically occurring pathology. We designed an automatic classifier to detect five pathologies (AAMI standard) by SVM method. The classifier was tested on the entire MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database with an accuracy of 99.17 %. We also compared the quality of parameters entering the classifier.