An interactive framework for an analysis of ECG signals

  • Authors:
  • Giovanni Bortolan;Witold Pedrycz

  • Affiliations:
  • LADSEB-CNR, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35020 Padova, Italy;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2G7 and Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 01-447 Warsaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this study, we introduce and discuss a development of a highly interactive and user-friendly environment for an ECG signal analysis. The underlying neural architecture being a crux of this environment comes in the form of a self-organizing map. This map helps discover a structure in a set of ECG patterns and visualize a topology of the data. The role of the designer is to choose from some already visualized regions of the self-organizing map characterized by a significant level of data homogeneity and substantial difference from other regions. In the sequel, the regions are described by means of information granules-fuzzy sets that are essential in the characterization of the main relationships existing in the ECG data. The study introduces an original method of constructing membership functions that incorporates class membership as an important factor affecting changes in membership grades. The study includes a comprehensive descriptive modeling of highly dimensional ECG data.