Discrete cosine transform and multi class support vector machines for classification cardiac atrial arrhythmia and cardiac normal

The electrocardiogram signal is the most important analysis to detect cardiac arrhythmia. Machine learning classification is used as a first step to detect someone’s arrhythmia or normal heart. This paper discusses one method for detecting arrhythmia by using digital images of cardiac signals and R-R intervals. The process electrocardiogram digital image is divided into two, first the process of calculating the R-R intervals and second the process of extraction feature using Discrete Cosine Transform, followed by calculating the Euclidean Distance or Cityblock Distance with normal electrocardiogram signal reference. Euclidean Distance results or Cityblock Distance and R-R distance of electrocardiogram signals are then classified using Multiclass Support Vector Machine. The results of accuracy the classification four classes that are cardiac normal, atrial premature beat arrhythmia, atrial flutter arrhythmia, and atrial fibrillation arrhythmia, are 81.9%. The originality is used image to detect cardiac normal or cardiac arrhythmia by combined Discrete Cosine Transform, Euclidean distance or City block distance and Multiclass Support Vector Machine.