Abstract

A brief overview of electrocardiogram (ECG) properties and the characteristics of various cardiac conditions is given. Two different models are used to generate synthetic ECG signals. Domain knowledge is used to create synthetic examples of 16 different heart beat types with these models. Other techniques for synthesizing ECG signals are explored. Various machine learning models with different combinations of real and synthetic data are used to classify individual heart beats. The performance of the different methods and models are compared, and synthetic data is shown to be useful in beat classification.

Degree

MS

College and Department

Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Mathematics

Rights

http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/

Date Submitted

2019-09-01

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd11068

Keywords

ECG, synthetic data, SMOTE, signals, classification, machine learning, neural networks

Language

English

Included in

Mathematics Commons

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