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Nikouei M, Abdali-Mohammadi F. A novel method for modeling effective connections between brain regions based on EEG signals and graph neural networks for motor imagery detection. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2024; 27:1430-1447. [PMID: 37548428 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2023.2244110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
Abstract
Classified as biomedical signal processing, cerebral signal processing plays a key role in human-computer interaction (HCI) and medical diagnosis. The motor imagery (MI) problem is an important research area in this field. Accurate solutions to this problem will greatly affect real-world applications. Most of the proposed methods are based on raw signal processing techniques. Known as prior knowledge, the structural-functional information and interregional connections can improve signal processing accuracy. It is possible to correctly perceive the generated signals by considering the brain structure (i.e. anatomical units), the source of signals, and the structural-functional dependence of different brain regions (i.e. effective connection) that are the semantic generators of signals. This study employed electroencephalograph (EEG) signals based on the activity of brain regions (cortex) and effective connections between brain regions based on dynamic causal modeling to solve the MI problem. EEG signals, as well as effective connections between brain regions to improve the interpretability of MI action, were fed into the architecture of Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCN). The proposed model allowed GCN to extract more discriminative features. The results indicated that the proposed method was successful in developing a model with a MI detection accuracy of 93.73%.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mahya Nikouei
- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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Sepahvand M, Meqdad MN, Abdali-Mohammadi F. Fault tolerance challenges in wearable computing for vital applications: a survey. J Med Eng Technol 2024:1-16. [PMID: 38954589 DOI: 10.1080/03091902.2024.2371789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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Wearable computers can be used in different domains including healthcare. However, due to suffering from challenges such as faults their applications may be limited in real practice. So, in designing wearable devices, designer must take into account fault tolerance techniques. This study aims to investigate the challenging issues of fault tolerance in wearable computing. For this purpose, different aspects of fault tolerance in wearable computing namely hardware, software, energy, and communication are studied; and state of the art research regarding each category is analysed. In this analysis, the performed works using the fault tolerance techniques are included in the form of 25 components and referred to as "fault tolerance plan". Using this fault tolerance plan and the appropriate profile, the fault tolerance of any wearable system can be evaluated. In this article, fault tolerances of several of the most prominent works conducted in the field of wearable computing were evaluated. The obtained results, with the medical profile, showed that only one wearable system had a fault tolerance of 91%, with the other systems having a fault tolerance of 24% or less. Also, the results obtained from evaluating these works, with the military profile, showed that only one wearable system had a fault tolerance of 76%, with the other systems having a fault tolerance of 19% or less. These mean that few studies have been conducted on the fault tolerance of wearable computing.
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- Majid Sepahvand
- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Intelligent Medical Systems, Al-Mustaqbal University, Hillah, Babil, Iraq
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- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
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Gong Z, Tang Z, Qin Z, Su X, Choi C. Electrocardiogram identification based on data generative network and non-fiducial data processing. Comput Biol Med 2024; 173:108333. [PMID: 38522250 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Nowadays, the use of biological signals as a criterion for identity recognition has gained increasing attention from various organizations and companies. Therefore, it has become crucial to have a biometric identity recognition method that is fast and accurate. In this paper, we propose a linear electrocardiogram (ECG) data preprocessing algorithm based on Kalman filters for rapid noise data filtering (wavelet transform filtering algorithm). Additionally, we introduce a generative network model called Data Generation Strategy Network (DRCN) based on generative networks. The DRCN is employed to augment training samples for convolutional classification networks, ultimately improving the classification performance of the model. Through the final experiments, our method successfully reduced the average misidentification rate of ECG-based identity recognition to 2.5%, and achieved an average recognition rate of 98.7% for each category, significantly surpassing previous achievements. In the future, this method is expected to be widely applied in the field of ECG-based identity recognition.
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- Ziyang Gong
- Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam-si, 13120, Republic of Korea.
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, 213200, China.
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam-si, 13120, Republic of Korea.
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Sepahvand M, Abdali-Mohammadi F. Joint learning method with teacher-student knowledge distillation for on-device breast cancer image classification. Comput Biol Med 2023; 155:106476. [PMID: 36841060 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The deep learning models such as AlexNet, VGG, and ResNet achieved a good performance in classifying the breast cancer histopathological images in BreakHis dataset. However, these models are not practically appropriate due to their computational complexity and too many parameters; as a result, they are rarely utilized on devices with limited computational resources. This paper develops a lightweight learning model based on knowledge distillation to classify the histopathological images of breast cancer in BreakHis. This method employs two teacher models based on VGG and ResNext to train two student models, which are similar to the teacher models in development but have fewer deep layers. In the proposed method, the adaptive joint learning approach is adopted to transfer the knowledge in the final-layer output of a teacher model along with the feature maps of its middle layers as the dark knowledge to a student model. According to the experimental results, the student model designed by ResNeXt architecture obtained the recognition rate 97.09% for all histopathological images. In addition, this model has ∼69.40 million fewer parameters, ∼0.93 G less GPU memory use, and 268.17 times greater compression rate than its teacher model. While in the student model the recognition rate merely dropped down to 1.75%. The comparisons indicated that the student model had a rather acceptable outputs compared with state-of-the-art methods in classifying the images of breast cancer in BreakHis.
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- Majid Sepahvand
- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
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- Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
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Camara C, Peris-Lopez P, Safkhani M, Bagheri N. ECG Identification Based on the Gramian Angular Field and Tested with Individuals in Resting and Activity States. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:937. [PMID: 36679733 PMCID: PMC9862128 DOI: 10.3390/s23020937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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In the last decade, biosignals have attracted the attention of many researchers when designing novel biometrics systems. Many of these works use cardiac signals and their representation as electrocardiograms (ECGs). Nowadays, these solutions are even more realistic since we can acquire reliable ECG records by using wearable devices. This paper moves in that direction and proposes a novel approach for an ECG identification system. For that, we transform the ECG recordings into Gramian Angular Field (GAF) images, a time series encoding technique well-known in other domains but not very common with biosignals. Specifically, the time series is transformed using polar coordinates, and then, the cosine sum of the angles is computed for each pair of points. We present a proof-of-concept identification system built on a tuned VGG19 convolutional neural network using this approach. We confirm our proposal's feasibility through experimentation using two well-known public datasets: MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database (subjects at a resting state) and ECG-GUDB (individuals under four specific activities). In both scenarios, the identification system reaches an accuracy of 91%, and the False Acceptance Rate (FAR) is eight times higher than the False Rejection Rate (FRR).
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- Carmen Camara
- Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, 28911 Leganés, Spain
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- Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, 28911 Leganés, Spain
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- Computer Engineering Department, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran 16788-15811, Iran
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- Electrical Engineering Department, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran 16788-15811, Iran
- School of Computer Science (SCS), Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 16788-15811, Iran
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Ding J, Qiao P, Wang J, Huang H. Impact of food safety supervision efficiency on preventing and controlling mass public crisis. Front Public Health 2022; 10:1052273. [PMID: 36544788 PMCID: PMC9760689 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1052273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Food safety has received unprecedented attention since the COVID-19 outbreak. Exploring food safety regulatory mechanisms in the context of cluster public crises is critical for COVID-19 prevention and control. As a result, using data from a food safety regulation survey in the Bei-jing-Tianjin-Hebei urban cluster, this paper investigates the impact of food safety regulation on the prevention and control of COVID-19. The study found that food safety regulation and cluster public crisis prevention and control have a significant positive relationship, with the ability to integrate regulatory resources acting as a mediator between the two. Second, industry groups argue that the relationship between regulatory efficiency and regulatory resource integration should be moderated in a positive manner. Finally, industry association support positively moderates the mediating role of regulatory re-source integration capacity between food safety regulatory efficiency and cluster public crises, and there is a mediating effect of being moderated. Our findings shed light on the mechanisms underlying the roles of regulatory efficiency, resource integration capacity, and industry association support in food safety, and they serve as a useful benchmark for further improving food safety regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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- Jian Ding
- Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Industrial and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- School of Accounting, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
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- School of Accounting, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China
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Zhong M, Li F, Chen W. Automatic arrhythmia detection with multi-lead ECG signals based on heterogeneous graph attention networks. MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING : MBE 2022; 19:12448-12471. [PMID: 36654006 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2022581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Automatic arrhythmia detection is very important for cardiovascular health. It is generally performed by measuring the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals of standard multiple leads. However, the correlations of multiple leads are often ignored. In addition, an extensive and complex feature extraction process is usually needed in most existing studies. Therefore, these challenges will not only lead to the loss of overall lead information, but also cause the detection performance to depend on the quality of features. To solve these challenges, a novel multi-lead arrhythmia detection model based on a heterogeneous graph attention network is proposed in this paper. We have modeled the multi-lead data as a heterogeneous graph to integrate diverse information and construct intra-lead and inter-lead correlations in multi-lead data, providing a reasonable and effective the data model. A heterogeneous graph network with a dual-level attention strategy has been utilized to capture the interactions among diverse information and information types. At the same time, our model does not require any feature extraction process for the ECG signals, which avoids out complex feature engineering. Extensive experimental results show that multi-lead information and complex correlations can be well captured, thus confirming that the proposed model results in significant improvements in multi-lead arrhythmia detection.
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- MingHao Zhong
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Wang M, Yin X, Zhu Y, Hu J. Representation Learning and Pattern Recognition in Cognitive Biometrics: A Survey. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:5111. [PMID: 35890799 PMCID: PMC9320620 DOI: 10.3390/s22145111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/05/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Cognitive biometrics is an emerging branch of biometric technology. Recent research has demonstrated great potential for using cognitive biometrics in versatile applications, including biometric recognition and cognitive and emotional state recognition. There is a major need to summarize the latest developments in this field. Existing surveys have mainly focused on a small subset of cognitive biometric modalities, such as EEG and ECG. This article provides a comprehensive review of cognitive biometrics, covering all the major biosignal modalities and applications. A taxonomy is designed to structure the corresponding knowledge and guide the survey from signal acquisition and pre-processing to representation learning and pattern recognition. We provide a unified view of the methodological advances in these four aspects across various biosignals and applications, facilitating interdisciplinary research and knowledge transfer across fields. Furthermore, this article discusses open research directions in cognitive biometrics and proposes future prospects for developing reliable and secure cognitive biometric systems.
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- Min Wang
- School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia; (M.W.); (X.Y.)
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- School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia; (M.W.); (X.Y.)
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia;
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- School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia; (M.W.); (X.Y.)
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A New 12-Lead ECG Signals Fusion Method Using Evolutionary CNN Trees for Arrhythmia Detection. MATHEMATICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/math10111911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The 12 leads of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals show the heart activities from different angles of coronal and axial planes; hence, the signals of these 12 leads have functional dependence on each other. This paper proposes a novel method for fusing the data of 12-lead ECG signals to diagnose heart problems. In the first phase of the proposed method, the time-frequency transform is employed to fuse the functional data of leads and extract the frequency data of ECG signals in 12 leads. After that, their dependence is evaluated through the correlation analysis. In the second phase, a structural learning method is adopted to extract the structural data from these 12 leads. Moreover, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) models are coded in this phase through genetic programming. These trees are responsible for learning deep structural features from functional data extracted from 12 leads. These trees are upgraded through the execution of the genetic programming (GP) algorithm to extract the optimal features. These two phases are used together to fuse the leads of ECG signals to diagnose various heart problems. According to the test results on ChapmanECG, including the signals of 10,646 patients, the proposed method enjoys the mean accuracy of 97.60% in the diagnosis of various types of arrhythmias in the Chapman dataset. It also outperformed the state-of-the-art methods.
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Sepahvand M, Abdali-Mohammadi F. A novel method for reducing arrhythmia classification from 12-lead ECG signals to single-lead ECG with minimal loss of accuracy through teacher-student knowledge distillation. Inf Sci (N Y) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2022.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Overcoming limitation of dissociation between MD and MI classifications of breast cancer histopathological images through a novel decomposed feature-based knowledge distillation method. Comput Biol Med 2022; 145:105413. [PMID: 35325731 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Magnification-independent (MI) classification is considered a promising method for detecting the histopathological images of breast cancer. However, it has too many parameters for real implementation due to dependence on input images in different magnification factors. In addition, magnification-dependent (MD) classification usually performs poorly on unseen samples, although it has lower input image sizes and fewer parameters. This paper proposes a novel method based on knowledge distillation (KD) to overcome the limitation of dissociation between MI classification and MD classification of breast cancer in histopathological images. The proposed KD method includes a pre-trained MI teacher model that is responsible for training an unprepared MD student model developed through only one magnification factor. In the proposed method, the decomposed feature maps of a teacher's intermediate layers are transferred as dark knowledge to a student. According to the experimental results, the student model developed through 40X images yielded accuracy rates of 99.41%, 99.26%, 99.14%, and 99.09% in response to unseen samples of 40X, 100X, 200X, and 400X images, respectively. Moreover, comparison results indicated the competitive performance of the proposed student model as opposed to the state-of-the-art method based on deep learning on BreakHis.
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Murat F, Sadak F, Yildirim O, Talo M, Murat E, Karabatak M, Demir Y, Tan RS, Acharya UR. Review of Deep Learning-Based Atrial Fibrillation Detection Studies. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:11302. [PMID: 34769819 PMCID: PMC8583162 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182111302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia that can lead to stroke, heart failure, and premature death. Manual screening of AF on electrocardiography (ECG) is time-consuming and prone to errors. To overcome these limitations, computer-aided diagnosis systems are developed using artificial intelligence techniques for automated detection of AF. Various machine learning and deep learning (DL) techniques have been developed for the automated detection of AF. In this review, we focused on the automated AF detection models developed using DL techniques. Twenty-four relevant articles published in international journals were reviewed. DL models based on deep neural network, convolutional neural network (CNN), recurrent neural network, long short-term memory, and hybrid structures were discussed. Our analysis showed that the majority of the studies used CNN models, which yielded the highest detection performance using ECG and heart rate variability signals. Details of the ECG databases used in the studies, performance metrics of the various models deployed, associated advantages and limitations, as well as proposed future work were summarized and discussed. This review paper serves as a useful resource for the researchers interested in developing innovative computer-assisted ECG-based DL approaches for AF detection.
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- Fatma Murat
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Firat University, Elazig 23000, Turkey;
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bartin University, Bartin 74100, Turkey;
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- Department of Software Engineering, Firat University, Elazig 23000, Turkey; (O.Y.); (M.T.); (M.K.)
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- Department of Software Engineering, Firat University, Elazig 23000, Turkey; (O.Y.); (M.T.); (M.K.)
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- Department of Cardiology, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara 06000, Turkey;
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- Department of Software Engineering, Firat University, Elazig 23000, Turkey; (O.Y.); (M.T.); (M.K.)
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Firat University, Elazig 23000, Turkey;
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- Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore 169609, Singapore;
- Department of Cardiology, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore
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- Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore 138607, Singapore;
- Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore 599494, Singapore
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