Assessing the signal quality of electrocardiograms from varied acquisition sources: A generic machine learning pipeline for model generation.

Journal: Computers in biology and medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Long-term electrocardiogram monitoring comes at the expense of signal quality. During unconstrained movements, the electrocardiogram is often corrupted by motion artefacts, which can lead to inaccurate physiological information. In this situation, automated quality assessment methods are useful to increase the reliability of the measurements. A generic machine learning pipeline that generates classification models for electrocardiogram quality assessment is presented in this article. The presented pipeline is tested on signals from varied acquisition sources, towards selecting segments that can be used for heart rate analysis in lifestyle applications.

Authors

  • Adnan Albaba
    Electrical Engineering Department of University of Leuven, Belgium; Connected Health Solutions Group at Imec-Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: adnan.albaba@imec.be.
  • Neide Simões-Capela
    Electrical Engineering Department of University of Leuven, Belgium; Connected Health Solutions Group at Imec-Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: neide.simoescapela@kuleuven.be.
  • Yuyang Wang
    College of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China.
  • Richard C Hendriks
    Electrical Engineering Department of University of Delft, the Netherlands. Electronic address: r.c.hendriks@tudelft.nl.
  • Walter De Raedt
    Connected Health Solutions Group at Imec-Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: walter.deraedt@imec.be.
  • Chris Van Hoof
    IMEC Leuven, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium; Stichting IMEC Nederland, High Tech Campus 31, Eindhoven 5656 AE, The Netherlands.