Arrhythmia Classification Using Biased Dropout and Morphology-Rhythm Feature With Incremental Broad Learning

In recent times, people have become increasingly health-conscious. To obtain timely and accurate information on the status of the heart, one of the most important organs of the human body, there is a growing demand among individuals and doctors for accurate and real-time automatic classification of arrhythmias. Consequently, this paper proposes a fast and accurate classification method for arrhythmias. In the proposed method, we build an incremental broad learning (IBL) classification model based on the biased dropout technique for arrhythmia-type recognition. In particular, we extract the morphological-rhythm features of the denoised signal as the input data of the IBL model in the electrocardiogram signal preprocessing. The IBL model enhances the classification effect of the node optimization model by using improved features. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first application of the IBL model to the study of arrhythmia classification. The results of experiments conducted on the MIT-BIH database indicate that the proposed method is effective and achieves superior classification results. The average classification accuracy for six types of arrhythmias was 99%, and the training time required was only 2.7 s. In addition, based on the evaluation index recommended by the ANSI/AAMI EC57:2012 standard, our method is superior to existing methods on all indexes, except for the positive predictive rate of ventricular ectopic beats. Therefore, the proposed classification method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of real-time performance and accuracy and provides a new approach for further improvements in arrhythmia classification.