Automatic Arrhythmia Detection Based on the Probabilistic Neural Network with FPGA Implementation

This paper presents a prototype implementation of arrhythmia classification using Probabilistic neural network (PNN). Arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat, resulting in severe heart problems if not diagnosed early. Therefore, accurate and robust arrhythmia classification is a vital task for cardiac patients. The classification of ECG has been performed using PNN into eight ECG classes using a unique combination of six ECG features: heart rate, spectral entropy, and 4th order of autoregressive coefficients. In addition, FPGA implementation has been proposed to prototype the complete system of arrhythmia classification. Artix-7 board has been used for the FPGA implementation for easy and fast execution of the proposed arrhythmia classification. As a result, the average accuracy for ECG classification is found to be 98.27%, and the time consumed in the classification is found to be 17 seconds.