Arrhythmia Classification Based on Combination of Heart Rate, Auto Regressive Coefficient and Spectral Entropy Using Probabilistic Neural Network

This paper presents a classification method for arrhythmia using probabilistic neural network, based on unique combination of three Electrocardiogram (ECG) features; heart rate, Auto Regressive (AR) coefficients & spectral entropy (SE). Heart rate has been very critical parameter for the detection of life-threatening arrhythmia. The purpose of this paper is to develop a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) based algorithm for improved detection and broader classification of cardiac arrhythmia. The results show that the unique combination of ECG features considered in this work provides more accurate and robust classification of arrhythmias.