Analysis of Back Propagation Neural Network Method for Heart Disease Recognition

Abstract

ECG is the recording of the electrical activity of the heart, and has become one of the most important tools in the diagnosis of heart diseases. ECG signal is shaped by P wave, QRS complex, and T wave. In the normal ECG beat, the main parameters including shape, duration, R-R interval and relationship between P wave, QRS complex, and T wave components are inspected. Any change in these parameters indicates an illness of the heart. This article introduces an electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern recognition method based on wavelet transform and standard BP neural network classifier. Experiment analyzes wavelet transform of ECG to extract the maximum wavelet coefficients of multi-scale firstly. This article then inputs them into BP to classify for different kinds of ECGs. The experimental result shows that the standard BP neural network classifier's overall pattern recognition rate is well.