A Gated Recurrent Unit Based Continual Normalization Model for Arrythmia Classification Using ECG Signals

In this world, around 31% of the deaths are commonly caused because of cardiovascular diseases. Around 80% of sudden deaths occur due to cardiac arrhythmias and heart diseases. The mortality rate has increased for cardiac disease and therefore early heart disease detection is significant to preclude patients from dying. At the initial phase, the heart disease is detected by analyzing abnormal heartbeats. The existing models failed to select the features before performing the extraction of features. The developed model examined MIT-BIB database to surpass the overfitting issue. Therefore, in the present research work, the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based Continual Normalization (CN) classifier is used to speed up the training to a higher learning rate to enable simpler learning for the standard deviation of the neurons' output. The extracted features were used to classify Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals into 5 important classes named as N, S, V, F & Q which denote the kinds of arrhythmia. The findings revealed that the proposed GRU based Continual Normalization technique obtained an accuracy of 99.41% which is better when compared with the existing researches.