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Compared with the conventional time-domain approaches, the proposed approach analyzes the ECG signal only in the frequency domain. However, because most of the noises in the raw ECG signal belong to high-frequency signals, it is necessary to acquire more features in the low-frequency spectrum and fewer features in the high-frequency spectrum. Hence, a non-uniform feature extraction approach is proposed in this article. According to less data preprocessing in the frequency domain than the one in the time domain, the proposed approach not only reduces the total diagnosis latency but also reduces the computing power consumption of the ECG diagnosis. To verify the proposed approach, the well-known MIT-BIH arrhythmia database is involved in this work. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can reduce ECG diagnosis latency by 47% to 52% compared with conventional ECG analysis methods under similar diagnostic accuracy of heart diseases. 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