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Stress causing Arrhythmia Detection from ECG Signal using HMM

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an electrical recording of the heart and is used to measure the rate and regularity ofheartbeats.The cardiac arrhythmias are identified and diagnosed by analyzing the ECG signals. In this paper, the human stress assessment is the major issues taken to identify arrhythmia, where thefeature extraction is done using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) technique for the purpose of analyzing the signals. The DWT technique is used to denoise the ECG signal by removing the corresponding wavelet coefficients and also used to retrieve relevant information from the ECG input signal. The classification of the stress causing arrhythmia from ECG signal is performed by the Hidden Markov Model.

K.Vimala

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