ECG Arrhythmia Classification Using 1D CNN Leveraging the Resampling Technique and Gaussian Mixture Model

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the simplest and oldest tools to assess the heart condition of cardiac patients. Heart diseases have emerged as one of the leading causes of death all over the world. According to the world health organization (WHO), millions of people are dying every year from heart-related diseases. A classification model that can early detect arrhythmia will be able to reduce this number by manyfold. Many researchers are working in this area and proposed many deep learning and machine Learning based models for arrhythmia classification. These models have high accuracy but require a machine with high computational power. Hence, these models are not sustainable options for the practical field. In this paper, we have proposed a 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with high accuracy and low computational complexity. Our proposed methodology is appraised on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset. We achieved overall 98.25% accuracy into five classes with an f1 score of 98.24%, precision 97.58%, and recall 96.79% which is better than previous results classifying arrhythmia. We can claim that our proposed method is better than most other existing models because of the higher accuracy with a simple architecture that can be run on an edge device with relatively low hardware configuration.