Localization of Myocardial Infarction from Multi-Lead ECG Signals Using Multiscale Analysis and Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

The occlusion in one of the coronary arteries of the heart leads to the cardiac ailment, myocardial infarction (MI). The localization of MI based on the investigation of the morphology of the multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is the initial task for the diagnosis of this ailment. In this paper, the multiscale convolutional neural network is proposed for the automated localization of MI ailment from multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) beats. The Fourier-Bessel (FB) series expansion based empirical wavelet transform (EWT) with fixed order ranges is introduced for the multiscale analysis of multi-lead ECG beat. The FB spectrum of each lead ECG beat is segregated into contiguous segments using the fixed order ranges. Furthermore, the order ranges from these contiguous segments are used to design an empirical wavelet filter bank for the extraction of subband signals from each lead ECG beat. The convolutional neural network (CNN) is used for the classification of various categories of MI as anterior MI (AMI), anterio-lateral MI (ALMI), anterio-septal MI (ASMI), inferior MI (IMI), inferio-lateral MI (ILMI), inferio-posterio-lateral MI (IPLMI) and normal sinus rhythm (NSR). The experimental results reveal that the lower-order range subband signal coupled with CNN attains higher average accuracy values of 99.92%, 99.34%, 99.95%, 99.95%, 99.91%, and 99.86% respectively, for AMI, ALMI, ASMI, IMI, ILMI, and IPLMI classes. The subband signal of multi-lead ECG beats with order range of [1-26] is highly affected during various categories of MI heart disease, and this band signal has higher performance as compared to the existing MI localization approaches. © 2001-2012 IEEE.