APPLICATION OF EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION–BASED FEATURES FOR ANALYSIS OF NORMAL AND CAD HEART RATE SIGNALS

Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is a heart disease caused due to insufficient supply of nutrients and oxygen to the heart muscles. Hence, reduced supply of nutrients and oxygen causes heart attack or stroke and may cause death. Also significant number of people are suffering from CAD around the world so timely diagnosis of CAD can save the life of patients. In this work, we have proposed computer assisted diagnosis of CAD using Heart Rate (HR) signals obtained from Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. We have used the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) technique to process the HR signals. The features namely: Second-Order Difference Plot (SODP) area, Analytic Signal Representation (ASR) area, Amplitude Modulation (AM) bandwidth, Frequency Modulation (FM) bandwidth and Fourier–Bessel expansion (FBE)- based mean frequency computed from the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) are extracted to discriminate normal and CAD subjects. Thereafter, Kruskal–Wallis statistical test is performed on these features. The features having p-value less than 0.05 are considered to be significant. Our results show that three features namely: AM bandwidth, FM bandwidth and FBE-based mean frequency are more suitable than ASR area and SODP area features for discrimination of normal and CAD subjects.

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