Early Detection of Arrhythmia with Advanced Feature Extraction Techniques
Early detection of arrhythmia is critical for cardiac patients through electrocardiogram (ECG) signal analysis and feature extraction. This study implements three distinct feature extraction algorithms—Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Autoregressive (AR) Modeling, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)—combined with an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier. The PCA-based system achieved superior accuracy of 92.7083% using 3-second ECG intervals, outperforming reference methods (84.4%). The approach demonstrates scalable applicability for arrhythmia classification and potential cardiac disease prediction.