Sleep apnoea episodes recognition by a committee of ELM classifiers from ECG signal

Sadr Nadi, Philip de Chazal, André van Schaik, Paul Breen

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Abstract

This paper describes a system for the recognition of sleep apnoea episodes from ECG signals using a committee of extreme learning machine (ELM) classifiers. RR-interval parameters (heart rate variability) have been used as the identifying features as they are directly affected by sleep apnoea. The MIT PhysioNet Apnea-ECG database was used. A committee of five ELM classifiers has been employed to classify one-minute epochs of ECG into normal or apnoeic epochs. Our results show that the classification performance from the committee of networks was superior to the results of a single ELM classifier for fan-outs from 1 to 100. Classification performance reached a plateau at a fan-out of 10. The maximum accuracy was 82.5% with a sensitivity of 81.9% and a specificity of 82.8%. The results were comparable to other published research with the same input data.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiomedical Engineering: A Bridge to Improve the Quality of Health Care and the Quality of Life: Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2015), Milano, Italy, 25-29 August 2015
PublisherIEEE
Pages7675-7678
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424492701
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
EventIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference -
Duration: 25 Aug 2015 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference
Period25/08/15 → …

Keywords

  • electrocardiography
  • heart beat
  • sleep apnea syndromes

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