Unreadable Segment Recognition of Single-Lead ECG Signals Based on XGBoost: Fuision of Shannon Energy Envelope and Empirical Mode Decomposition

Abstract

The quality of ECG signals is commonly affected by severe noise, especially for the single-lead ECG signals acquired from long-term wearable devices. Recognizing and ignoring these interfered signals can reduce the error rate of automatic ECG analysis system, and in addition, improve the efficiency of cardiologists. Based on XGBoost classifier, we propose an unreadable ECG segment recognition method using features extracted through Shannon Energy Envelope (SEE) and Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). An unreadable CarePatchTM ECG patch database is established, containing 8169 readable segments and 6114 unreadable segments with a length of 10 seconds. The XGBoost with 5-fold cross-validation is applied and obtained an accuracy of 99.51+/-0.15%. In conclusion, SSE and EMD features contribute to the unreadable segments recognition and alleviate the misdiagnosis of abnormal rhythms.