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Detection and delineation of the enigmatic U-wave in an electrocardiogram

  • Lakhan Dev SharmaEmail author
  • Ramesh Kumar Sunkaria
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Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) comprises of P-QRS-T wave components and sometimes U-wave. As per literature, the U-wave is said to be associated with certain cardiac disorders, but no more efforts have been made in developing techniques for detection of presence of U-wave and its delineation. The proposed technique presents a novel approach which can detect the presence of U-wave in the TP-segment and can delineate its peak. Features extracted from the TP-segment have been fed to random forest algorithm (RFA) and K-nearest neighbors (KNN) for classification. Sensitivity (Se%) = 96.66, specificity (Sp%) = 97.29, positive predictivity (+P%) = 97.31, Accuracy (Ac%) = 96.97, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (Roc) = 0.994 using RFA and Se% = 96.23, Sp% = 94.70, +P% = 94.61, Ac% = 95.45, Roc = 0.973 using KNN have been achieved. The proposed technique also delineates the U-wave peak with an overall mean difference of 30.02 ms.

Keywords

Electrocardiogram (ECG) U-wave Random forest algorithm (RFA) K-nearest neighbors (KNN) 
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Conflict of interest

Authors have no conflict of interest.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Electronics and Communication EngineeringDr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of TechnologyJalandharIndia

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