Compressive Sampling Based Multi-Spectrum Deep Learning for Sub-Nyquist Pacemaker ECG Analysis.

Abstract

Automatic electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis for pacemaker patients is crucial for monitoring cardiac conditions and the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization treatment. However, under the condition of energy-saving remote monitoring, the low-sampling-rate issue of an ECG device can lead to the miss detection of pacemaker spikes as well as incorrect analysis on paced rhythm and non-paced arrhythmias. To solve the issue, this paper proposed a novel system that applies the compressive sampling (CS) framework to sub-Nyquist acquire and reconstruct ECG, and then uses multi-dimensional feature-based deep learning to identify paced rhythm and non-paced arrhythmias. Simulation testing results on ECG databases and comparison with existing approaches demonstrate its effectiveness and outstanding performance for pacemaker ECG analysis.