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- Title
Detection of Ventricular Fibrillation Based on Ballistocardiography by Constructing an Effective Feature Set.
- Authors
Wan, Rongru; Huang, Yanqi; Wu, Xiaomei; Martínez, Juan Pablo
- Abstract
Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is a type of fatal arrhythmia that can cause sudden death within minutes. The study of a VF detection algorithm has important clinical significance. This study aimed to develop an algorithm for the automatic detection of VF based on the acquisition of cardiac mechanical activity-related signals, namely ballistocardiography (BCG), by non-contact sensors. BCG signals, including VF, sinus rhythm, and motion artifacts, were collected through electric defibrillation experiments in pigs. Through autocorrelation and S transform, the time-frequency graph with obvious information of cardiac rhythmic activity was obtained, and a feature set of 13 elements was constructed for each 7 s segment after statistical analysis and hierarchical clustering. Then, the random forest classifier was used to classify VF and non-VF, and two paradigms of intra-patient and inter-patient were used to evaluate the performance. The results showed that the sensitivity and specificity were 0.965 and 0.958 under 10-fold cross-validation, and they were 0.947 and 0.946 under leave-one-subject-out cross-validation. In conclusion, the proposed algorithm combining feature extraction and machine learning can effectively detect VF in BCG, laying a foundation for the development of long-term self-cardiac monitoring at home and a VF real-time detection and alarm system.
- Subjects
ELECTRIC countershock; FEATURE extraction; HIERARCHICAL clustering (Cluster analysis); MACHINE learning; SUDDEN death; VENTRICULAR fibrillation
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2021, Vol 21, Issue 10, p3524
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s21103524