Hybrid Prediction Method for ECG Signals Based on VMD, PSR, and RBF Neural Network

To explore a method to predict ECG signals in body area networks (BANs), we propose a hybrid prediction method for ECG signals in this paper. The proposed method combines variational mode decomposition (VMD), phase space reconstruction (PSR), and a radial basis function (RBF) neural network to predict an ECG signal. To reduce the nonstationarity and randomness of the ECG signal, we use VMD to decompose the ECG signal into several intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) with finite bandwidth, which is helpful to improve the prediction accuracy. The input parameters of the RBF neural network affect the prediction accuracy and computational burden. We employ PSR to optimize input parameters of the RBF neural network. To evaluate the prediction performance of the proposed method, we carry out many simulation experiments on ECG data from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. The experimental results show that the root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) of the proposed method are of 10(−3) magnitude, while the RMSE and MAE of some competitive prediction methods are of 10(−2) magnitude. Compared with other several prediction methods, our method obviously improves the prediction accuracy of ECG signals.