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  • Title: A novel and lightweight P, QRS, and T peaks detector using adaptive thresholding and template waveform.
    Author: Rahul J, Sora M, Sharma LD.
    Journal: Comput Biol Med; 2021 May; 132():104307. PubMed ID: 33765449.
    Abstract:
    Accurate detection of key components in an electrocardiogram (ECG) plays a vital role in identifying cardiovascular diseases. In this work, we proposed a novel and lightweight P, QRS, and T peaks detector using adaptive thresholding and template waveform. In the first stage, we proposed a QRS complex detector, which utilises a novel adaptive thresholding process followed by threshold initialisation. Moreover, false positive QRS complexes were removed using the kurtosis coefficient computation. In the second stage, the ECG segment from the S wave point to the Q wave point was extracted for clustering. The template waveform was generated from the cluster members using the ensemble average method, interpolation, and resampling. Next, a novel conditional thresholding process was used to calculate the threshold values based on the template waveform morphology for P and T peaks detection. Finally, the min-max functions were used to detect the P and T peaks. The proposed technique was applied to the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database (MIT-AD) and the QT database for QRS detection and validation. Sensitivity (Se%) values of 99.81 and 99.90 and positive predictivity (+P%) values of 99.85 and 99.94 were obtained for the MIT-AD and QT database for QRS complex detection, respectively. Further, we found that Se% = 96.50 and +P% = 96.08 for the P peak detection, Se% = 100 and +P% = 100 for the R peak detection, and Se% = 99.54 and +P% = 99.68 for the T peak detection when using the manually annotated QT database. The proposed technique exhibits low computational complexity and can be implemented on low-cost hardware, since it is based on simple decision rules rather than a heuristic approach.
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