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Efe E, Yavsan E. AttBiLFNet: A novel hybrid network for accurate and efficient arrhythmia detection in imbalanced ECG signals. MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING : MBE 2024; 21:5863-5880. [PMID: 38872562 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024259] [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: 06/15/2024]
Abstract
Within the domain of cardiovascular diseases, arrhythmia is one of the leading anomalies causing sudden deaths. These anomalies, including arrhythmia, are detectable through the electrocardiogram, a pivotal component in the analysis of heart diseases. However, conventional methods like electrocardiography encounter challenges such as subjective analysis and limited monitoring duration. In this work, a novel hybrid model, AttBiLFNet, was proposed for precise arrhythmia detection in ECG signals, including imbalanced class distributions. AttBiLFNet integrates a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network with a convolutional neural network (CNN) and incorporates an attention mechanism using the focal loss function. This architecture is capable of autonomously extracting features by harnessing BiLSTM's bidirectional information flow, which proves advantageous in capturing long-range dependencies. The attention mechanism enhances the model's focus on pertinent segments of the input sequence, which is particularly beneficial in class imbalance classification scenarios where minority class samples tend to be overshadowed. The focal loss function effectively addresses the impact of class imbalance, thereby improving overall classification performance. The proposed AttBiLFNet model achieved 99.55% accuracy and 98.52% precision. Moreover, performance metrics such as MF1, K score, and sensitivity were calculated, and the model was compared with various methods in the literature. Empirical evidence showed that AttBiLFNet outperformed other methods in terms of both accuracy and computational efficiency. The introduced model serves as a reliable tool for the timely identification of arrhythmias.
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- Enes Efe
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Hitit University, Corum 19030, Turkey
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- Department of Electronics and Automation, Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag 59030, Turkey
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Chen X, Si Y, Zhang Z, Yang W, Feng J. Improving Adversarial Robustness of ECG Classification Based on Lipschitz Constraints and Channel Activation Suppression. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:2954. [PMID: 38733060 PMCID: PMC11086233 DOI: 10.3390/s24092954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2024] [Revised: 04/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/13/2024]
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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly important in the medical diagnosis of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. However, research has shown that DNNs are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which can be created by carefully crafted perturbations. This vulnerability can lead to potential medical accidents. This poses new challenges for the application of DNNs in the medical diagnosis of ECG signals. This paper proposes a novel network Channel Activation Suppression with Lipschitz Constraints Net (CASLCNet), which employs the Channel-wise Activation Suppressing (CAS) strategy to dynamically adjust the contribution of different channels to the class prediction and uses the 1-Lipschitz's ℓ∞ distance network as a robust classifier to reduce the impact of adversarial perturbations on the model itself in order to increase the adversarial robustness of the model. The experimental results demonstrate that CASLCNet achieves ACCrobust scores of 91.03% and 83.01% when subjected to PGD attacks on the MIT-BIH and CPSC2018 datasets, respectively, which proves that the proposed method in this paper enhances the model's adversarial robustness while maintaining a high accuracy rate.
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- Xin Chen
- School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China; (X.C.); (Z.Z.); (W.Y.); (J.F.)
- College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China; (X.C.); (Z.Z.); (W.Y.); (J.F.)
- College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China; (X.C.); (Z.Z.); (W.Y.); (J.F.)
- College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China; (X.C.); (Z.Z.); (W.Y.); (J.F.)
- College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China; (X.C.); (Z.Z.); (W.Y.); (J.F.)
- College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Zhang J, Zhang J, Jin J, Jiang X, Yang L, Fan S, Zhang Q, Chi M. Artificial intelligence applied in cardiovascular disease: a bibliometric and visual analysis. Front Cardiovasc Med 2024; 11:1323918. [PMID: 38433757 PMCID: PMC10904648 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1323918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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Background With the rapid development of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in the diagnosis and prognosis prediction of a variety of diseases, including cardiovascular disease. Facts have proved that AI has broad application prospects in rapid and accurate diagnosis. Objective This study mainly summarizes the research on the application of AI in the field of cardiovascular disease through bibliometric analysis and explores possible future research hotpots. Methods The articles and reviews regarding application of AI in cardiovascular disease between 2000 and 2023 were selected from Web of Science Core Collection on 30 December 2023. Microsoft Excel 2019 was applied to analyze the targeted variables. VOSviewer (version 1.6.16), Citespace (version 6.2.R2), and a widely used online bibliometric platform were used to conduct co-authorship, co-citation, and co-occurrence analysis of countries, institutions, authors, references, and keywords in this field. Results A total of 4,611 articles were selected in this study. AI-related research on cardiovascular disease increased exponentially in recent years, of which the USA was the most productive country with 1,360 publications, and had close cooperation with many countries. The most productive institutions and researchers were the Cedar sinai medical center and Acharya, Ur. However, the cooperation among most institutions or researchers was not close even if the high research outputs. Circulation is the journal with the largest number of publications in this field. The most important keywords are "classification", "diagnosis", and "risk". Meanwhile, the current research hotpots were "late gadolinium enhancement" and "carotid ultrasound". Conclusions AI has broad application prospects in cardiovascular disease, and a growing number of scholars are devoted to AI-related research on cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular imaging techniques and the selection of appropriate algorithms represent the most extensively studied areas, and a considerable boost in these areas is predicted in the coming years.
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- Jirong Zhang
- Graduate School, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Public Health, The University of Sydney, NSW, Sydney, Australia
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- The First Department of Cardiovascular, First Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, HL, China
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- College of basic medicine, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, HL, China
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- Cardiovascular Disease Branch, Dalian Second People's Hospital, Dalian, LN, China
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- Harbin hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, Harbin, HL, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, HL, China
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- Graduate School, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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Chopannejad S, Roshanpoor A, Sadoughi F. Attention-assisted hybrid CNN-BILSTM-BiGRU model with SMOTE-Tomek method to detect cardiac arrhythmia based on 12 -lead electrocardiogram signals. Digit Health 2024; 10:20552076241234624. [PMID: 38449680 PMCID: PMC10916475 DOI: 10.1177/20552076241234624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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Objectives Cardiac arrhythmia is one of the most severe cardiovascular diseases that can be fatal. Therefore, its early detection is critical. However, detecting types of arrhythmia by physicians based on visual identification is time-consuming and subjective. Deep learning can develop effective approaches to classify arrhythmias accurately and quickly. This study proposed a deep learning approach developed based on a Chapman-Shaoxing electrocardiogram (ECG) dataset signal to detect seven types of arrhythmias. Method Our DNN model is a hybrid CNN-BILSTM-BiGRU algorithm assisted by a multi-head self-attention mechanism regarding the challenging problem of classifying various arrhythmias of ECG signals. Additionally, the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE)-Tomek technique was utilized to address the data imbalance problem to detect and classify cardiac arrhythmias. Result The proposed model, trained with a single lead, was tested using a dataset containing 10,466 participants. The performance of the algorithm was evaluated using a random split validation approach. The proposed algorithm achieved an accuracy of 98.57% by lead II and 98.34% by lead aVF for the classification of arrhythmias. Conclusion We conducted an analysis of single-lead ECG signals to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed hybrid model in diagnosing and classifying different types of arrhythmias. We trained separate classification models using each individual signal lead. Additionally, we implemented the SMOTE-Tomek technique along with cross-entropy loss as a cost function to address the class imbalance problem. Furthermore, we utilized a multi-headed self-attention mechanism to adjust the network structure and classify the seven arrhythmia classes. Our model achieved high accuracy and demonstrated good generalization ability in detecting ECG arrhythmias. However, further testing of the model with diverse datasets is crucial to validate its performance.
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- Sara Chopannejad
- Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Computer, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH), Janat-abad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Information Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Li F, Wang P, Wang Li X. Deep learning-based regional ECG diagnosis platform. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2024; 47:139-148. [PMID: 38029363 DOI: 10.1111/pace.14891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To enable the intelligent diagnosis of a variety of common Electrocardiogram (ECG), we investigate the deep learning-based ECG diagnosis system. METHODS From January 2015 to December 2019, four consecutive years of 100,120 conventional 12-lead ECG data were collected in our hospital. Utilizing this dataset, we constructed a deep learning model designed to intelligently diagnose prevalent ECG anomalies by employing a multi-task learning framework. The system performance was evaluated using various metrics, including sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, positive predictive value, and so forth. Additionally, we employed an ECG intelligent diagnostic platform for clinical application to undertake real-time online analysis of 2500 conventional 12-lead ECG samples in June 2020, aiming to validate our model. At this stage, we compared the performance of our model against the traditional manual identification method. RESULTS The efficacy of the ECG intelligent diagnostic model was notably high for common and straightforward ECG patterns, such as sinus rhythm (F1 = 98.01%), sinus tachycardia (F1 = 96.26%), sinus bradycardia (F1 = 94.88%), and a normal electrocardiogram (F1 = 91.71%), as well as for Premature Ventricular Contractions (F1 = 91.62%). Nevertheless, when diagnosing rarer and more intricate ECG anomalies, the system requires an increased number of samples to refine the deep learning models. During the validation stage, our model exhibited better efficiency in terms of accuracy, labor time and labor cost when compared to the manual identification approach. CONCLUSIONS Our deep learning-driven intelligent ECG diagnostic model clearly demonstrates significant clinical utility. The integrated artificial intelligence diagnosis system not only has the potential to augment physicians in their diagnostic processes but also offers a viable avenue to reduce associated labor costs.
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- Fang Li
- Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Huzhou University, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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Ansari MY, Qaraqe M, Charafeddine F, Serpedin E, Righetti R, Qaraqe K. Estimating age and gender from electrocardiogram signals: A comprehensive review of the past decade. Artif Intell Med 2023; 146:102690. [PMID: 38042607 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102690] [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: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023]
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Twelve lead electrocardiogram signals capture unique fingerprints about the body's biological processes and electrical activity of heart muscles. Machine learning and deep learning-based models can learn the embedded patterns in the electrocardiogram to estimate complex metrics such as age and gender that depend on multiple aspects of human physiology. ECG estimated age with respect to the chronological age reflects the overall well-being of the cardiovascular system, with significant positive deviations indicating an aged cardiovascular system and a higher likelihood of cardiovascular mortality. Several conventional, machine learning, and deep learning-based methods have been proposed to estimate age from electronic health records, health surveys, and ECG data. This manuscript comprehensively reviews the methodologies proposed for ECG-based age and gender estimation over the last decade. Specifically, the review highlights that elevated ECG age is associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, abnormal peripheral endothelial dysfunction, and high mortality, among many other cardiovascular disorders. Furthermore, the survey presents overarching observations and insights across methods for age and gender estimation. This paper also presents several essential methodological improvements and clinical applications of ECG-estimated age and gender to encourage further improvements of the state-of-the-art methodologies.
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- Mohammed Yusuf Ansari
- Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
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- Division of Information and Computing Technology, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar; Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Kent M, Vasconcelos L, Ansari S, Ghanbari H, Nenadic I. Fourier space approach for convolutional neural network (CNN) electrocardiogram (ECG) classification: A proof-of-concept study. J Electrocardiol 2023; 80:24-33. [PMID: 37141727 DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2023.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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There has been a proliferation of machine learning (ML) electrocardiogram (ECG) classification algorithms reaching > 85% accuracy for various cardiac pathologies. Although the accuracy within institutions might be high, models trained at one institution might not be generalizable enough for accurate detection when deployed in other institutions due to differences in type of signal acquisition, sampling frequency, time of acquisition, device noise characteristics and number of leads. In this proof-of-concept study, we leverage the publicly available PTB-XL dataset to investigate the use of time-domain (TD) and frequency-domain (FD) convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect myocardial infarction (MI), ST/T-wave changes (STTC), atrial fibrillation (AFIB) and sinus arrhythmia (SARRH). To simulate interinstitutional deployment, the TD and FD implementations were also compared on adapted test sets using different sampling frequencies 50 Hz, 100 Hz and 250 Hz, and acquisition times of 5 s and 10s at 100 Hz sampling frequency from the training dataset. When tested on the original sampling frequency and duration, the FD approach showed comparable results to TD for MI (0.92 FD - 0.93 TD AUROC) and STTC (0.94 FD - 0.95 TD AUROC), and better performance for AFIB (0.99 FD - 0.86 TD AUROC) and SARRH (0.91 FD - 0.65 TD AUROC). Although both methods were robust to changes in sampling frequency, changes in acquisition time were detrimental to the TD MI and STTC AUROCs, at 0.72 and 0.58 respectively. Alternatively, the FD approach was able to maintain the same level of performance, and, therefore, showed better potential for interinstitutional deployment.
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- Madeline Kent
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Choi SH, Lee HG, Park SD, Bae JW, Lee W, Kim MS, Kim TH, Lee WK. Electrocardiogram-based deep learning algorithm for the screening of obstructive coronary artery disease. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2023; 23:287. [PMID: 37286945 DOI: 10.1186/s12872-023-03326-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Information on electrocardiogram (ECG) has not been quantified in obstructive coronary artery disease (ObCAD), despite the deep learning (DL) algorithm being proposed as an effective diagnostic tool for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Therefore, this study adopted a DL algorithm to suggest the screening of ObCAD from ECG. METHODS ECG voltage-time traces within a week from coronary angiography (CAG) were extracted for the patients who received CAG for suspected CAD in a single tertiary hospital from 2008 to 2020. After separating the AMI group, those were classified into ObCAD and non-ObCAD groups based on the CAG results. A DL-based model adopting ResNet was built to extract information from ECG data in the patients with ObCAD relative to those with non-ObCAD, and compared the performance with AMI. Moreover, subgroup analysis was conducted using ECG patterns of computer-assisted ECG interpretation. RESULTS The DL model demonstrated modest performance in suggesting the probability of ObCAD but excellent performance in detecting AMI. The AUC of the ObCAD model adopting 1D ResNet was 0.693 and 0.923 in detecting AMI. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and F1 score of the DL model for screening ObCAD were 0.638, 0.639, 0.636, and 0.634, respectively, while the figures were up to 0.885, 0.769, 0.921, and 0.758 for detecting AMI, respectively. Subgroup analysis showed that the difference between normal and abnormal/borderline ECG groups was not notable. CONCLUSIONS ECG-based DL model showed fair performance for assessing ObCAD and it may serve as an adjunct to the pre-test probability in patients with suspected ObCAD during the initial evaluation. With further refinement and evaluation, ECG coupled with the DL algorithm may provide potential front-line screening support in the resource-intensive diagnostic pathways.
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- Seong Huan Choi
- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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- School of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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- Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Korea
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Medical Research Collaborating Center, Biomedical Research Institution, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Inha University, Incheon, Korea
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- Department of Prevention and Management, School of Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Inha University, 27 Inhang-Ro, Jung-Gu, Incheon, Korea.
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Kim DH, Lee G, Kim SH. An ECG Stitching Scheme for Driver Arrhythmia Classification Based on Deep Learning. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:3257. [PMID: 36991967 PMCID: PMC10059278 DOI: 10.3390/s23063257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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This study proposes an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal stitching scheme to detect arrhythmias in drivers during driving. When the ECG is measured through the steering wheel during driving, the data are always exposed to noise caused by vehicle vibrations, bumpy road conditions, and the driver's steering wheel gripping force. The proposed scheme extracts stable ECG signals and transforms them into full 10 s ECG signals to classify arrhythmias using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Before the ECG stitching algorithm is applied, data preprocessing is performed. To extract the cycle from the collected ECG data, the R peaks are found and the TP interval segmentation is applied. An abnormal P peak is very difficult to find. Therefore, this study also introduces a P peak estimation method. Finally, 4 × 2.5 s ECG segments are collected. To classify arrhythmias with stitched ECG data, each time series' ECG signal is transformed via the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and short-time Fourier transform (STFT), and transfer learning is performed for classification using CNNs. Finally, the parameters of the networks that provide the best performance are investigated. According to the classification accuracy, GoogleNet with the CWT image set shows the best results. The classification accuracy is 82.39% for the stitched ECG data, while it is 88.99% for the original ECG data.
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Rajput D, Wang WJ, Chen CC. Evaluation of a decided sample size in machine learning applications. BMC Bioinformatics 2023; 24:48. [PMID: 36788550 PMCID: PMC9926644 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-023-05156-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND An appropriate sample size is essential for obtaining a precise and reliable outcome of a study. In machine learning (ML), studies with inadequate samples suffer from overfitting of data and have a lower probability of producing true effects, while the increment in sample size increases the accuracy of prediction but may not cause a significant change after a certain sample size. Existing statistical approaches using standardized mean difference, effect size, and statistical power for determining sample size are potentially biased due to miscalculations or lack of experimental details. This study aims to design criteria for evaluating sample size in ML studies. We examined the average and grand effect sizes and the performance of five ML methods using simulated datasets and three real datasets to derive the criteria for sample size. We systematically increase the sample size, starting from 16, by randomly sampling and examine the impact of sample size on classifiers' performance and both effect sizes. Tenfold cross-validation was used to quantify the accuracy. RESULTS The results demonstrate that the effect sizes and the classification accuracies increase while the variances in effect sizes shrink with the increment of samples when the datasets have a good discriminative power between two classes. By contrast, indeterminate datasets had poor effect sizes and classification accuracies, which did not improve by increasing sample size in both simulated and real datasets. A good dataset exhibited a significant difference in average and grand effect sizes. We derived two criteria based on the above findings to assess a decided sample size by combining the effect size and the ML accuracy. The sample size is considered suitable when it has appropriate effect sizes (≥ 0.5) and ML accuracy (≥ 80%). After an appropriate sample size, the increment in samples will not benefit as it will not significantly change the effect size and accuracy, thereby resulting in a good cost-benefit ratio. CONCLUSION We believe that these practical criteria can be used as a reference for both the authors and editors to evaluate whether the selected sample size is adequate for a study.
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- Daniyal Rajput
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Zhongda Rd, No. 300, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, 320317, Taiwan, ROC. .,Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, National Central University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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- grid.37589.300000 0004 0532 3167Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC
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- grid.37589.300000 0004 0532 3167Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Zhongda Rd, No. 300, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, 320317 Taiwan, ROC ,grid.37589.300000 0004 0532 3167Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC
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Ismail AR, Jovanovic S, Ramzan N, Rabah H. ECG Classification Using an Optimal Temporal Convolutional Network for Remote Health Monitoring. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:1697. [PMID: 36772737 PMCID: PMC9920651 DOI: 10.3390/s23031697] [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: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Increased life expectancy in most countries is a result of continuous improvements at all levels, starting from medicine and public health services, environmental and personal hygiene to the use of the most advanced technologies by healthcare providers. Despite these significant improvements, especially at the technological level in the last few decades, the overall access to healthcare services and medical facilities worldwide is not equally distributed. Indeed, the end beneficiary of these most advanced healthcare services and technologies on a daily basis are mostly residents of big cities, whereas the residents of rural areas, even in developed countries, have major difficulties accessing even basic medical services. This may lead to huge deficiencies in timely medical advice and assistance and may even cause death in some cases. Remote healthcare is considered a serious candidate for facilitating access to health services for all; thus, by using the most advanced technologies, providing at the same time high quality diagnosis and ease of implementation and use. ECG analysis and related cardiac diagnosis techniques are the basic healthcare methods providing rapid insights in potential health issues through simple visualization and interpretation by clinicians or by automatic detection of potential cardiac anomalies. In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning (ML) architecture for the ECG classification regarding five heart diseases based on temporal convolution networks (TCN). The proposed design, which implements a dilated causal one-dimensional convolution on the input heartbeat signals, seems to be outperforming all existing ML methods with an accuracy of 96.12% and an F1 score of 84.13%, using a reduced number of parameters (10.2 K). Such results make the proposed TCN architecture a good candidate for low power consumption hardware platforms, and thus its potential use in low cost embedded devices for remote health monitoring.
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- Ali Rida Ismail
- Institut Jean Lamour (UMR 7198), University of Lorraine, 54011 Nancy, France
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- Institut Jean Lamour (UMR 7198), University of Lorraine, 54011 Nancy, France
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- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, UK
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- Institut Jean Lamour (UMR 7198), University of Lorraine, 54011 Nancy, France
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Method for Solving Difficulties in Rhythm Classification Caused by Few Samples and Similar Characteristics in Electrocardiograms. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:bioengineering10020196. [PMID: 36829690 PMCID: PMC9952353 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10020196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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A method for accurately analyzing electrocardiograms (ECGs), which are obtained from electrical signals generated by cardiac activity, is essential in heart disease diagnosis. However, rhythms are typically obtained with relatively few data samples and similar characteristics, making them difficult to classify. To solve these issues, we proposed a novel method that distinguishes a given ECG rhythm using a beat score map (BSM) image. Through the proposed method, the associations between beats and previously used features, such as the R-R interval, were considered. Rhythm classification was implemented by training a convolutional neural network model and using transfer learning with the created BSM image. As a result, the proposed method for ECG rhythms with small data samples showed significant results. It also showed good performance in differentiating atrial fibrillation (AFIB) and atrial flutter (AFL) rhythms, which are difficult to distinguish due to their similar characteristics. The performance for rhythms with a small number of samples of the proposed method is 20% better than an existing method. In addition, the performance based on the F-1 score for classifying AFIB and AFL of the proposed method is 30% better than the existing method. This study solved the previous limitations caused by small sample numbers and similar rhythms.
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Denysyuk HV, Pinto RJ, Silva PM, Duarte RP, Marinho FA, Pimenta L, Gouveia AJ, Gonçalves NJ, Coelho PJ, Zdravevski E, Lameski P, Leithardt V, Garcia NM, Pires IM. Algorithms for automated diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases based on ECG data: A comprehensive systematic review. Heliyon 2023; 9:e13601. [PMID: 36852052 PMCID: PMC9958295 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases is increasing around the world. However, the technology is evolving and can be monitored with low-cost sensors anywhere at any time. This subject is being researched, and different methods can automatically identify these diseases, helping patients and healthcare professionals with the treatments. This paper presents a systematic review of disease identification, classification, and recognition with ECG sensors. The review was focused on studies published between 2017 and 2022 in different scientific databases, including PubMed Central, Springer, Elsevier, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), IEEE Xplore, and Frontiers. It results in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of 103 scientific papers. The study demonstrated that different datasets are available online with data related to various diseases. Several ML/DP-based models were identified in the research, where Convolutional Neural Network and Support Vector Machine were the most applied algorithms. This review can allow us to identify the techniques that can be used in a system that promotes the patient's autonomy.
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Key Words
- AI, Artificial Intelligence
- BNN, Binarized Neural Network
- CNN, Concolutional Neural Networks
- Cardiovascular diseases
- DL, Deep Learning
- DNN, Deep Neural Networks
- Diagnosis
- ECG sensors
- ECG, Electrocardiography
- GAN, Generative Adversarial Networks
- GMM, Gaussian Mixture Model
- GNB, Gaussian Naive bayes
- GRU, Gated Recurrent Unit
- LASSO, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator
- LDA, Linear Discriminant Analysis
- LR, Linear Regression
- LSTM, Long Short-Term Memory
- ML, Machine Learning
- MLP, Multiplayer Perceptron
- MLR, Multiple Linear Regression
- NLP, Natural Language Processing
- POAF, Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation
- RF, Random Forest
- RNN, Recurrent Neural Network
- SHAP, SHapley Additive exPlanations
- SVM, Support Vector Machine
- Systematic review
- WHO, World Health Organization
- kNN, k-nearest neighbors
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
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- Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
- Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra (INESC Coimbra), Coimbra, Portugal
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- Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
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- Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
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- VALORIZA, Research Center for Endogenous Resources Valorization, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, 7300-555 Portalegre, Portugal
- COPELABS, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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- Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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IoT Based System for Heart Monitoring and Arrhythmia Detection Using Machine Learning. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING 2023; 2023:6401673. [PMID: 36818385 PMCID: PMC9931473 DOI: 10.1155/2023/6401673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 09/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Internet of Things (IoT) technologies allow building a digital representation of people, objects, or physical phenomena to be available on the Internet. Thus, stakeholders can access this information from remote places or computational systems could analyze this data to find patterns, make decisions, or execute actions. For instance, a doctor could diagnose patients by analyzing the received data from an IoT system even when patients are located in a remote place. This article proposes an IoT system for monitoring electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and processing heart data in order to generate an alert when an arrhythmia is present. This system involves a Polar H10 heart sensor, machine-learning models to classify heart events, and communication technology to share and store patient's information. In the first place, the architecture of the IoT monitoring system and the communication between the components are described by discussing the designing criteria. Second, the experimentation process performs the training and the assessment of three classification algorithms, random forest, convolutional neural network, and k-nearest neighbors. The results show that k-nearest neighbor has the best accuracy percentage classifying the arrhythmias under study (premature ventricular contraction 94%, fusion of ventricular beat 81%, and supraventricular premature beat 82%); also, it is able to discern normal and unclassifiable beats with 93% and 97%, respectively.
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Wong SY, Han H, Cheng KM, Koo AC, Yussof S. ESS-IoT: The Smart Waste Management System for General Household
Shen Yuong Wong, Huashuo Han, Kin Meng Cheng, Ah Choo Koo and Salman Yussof. PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.47836/pjst.31.1.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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With the urban population’s growth, unethical and unmanaged waste disposal may negatively impact the environment. In many cities, a massive flow of people in municipal buildings or offices has generated vast amounts of waste daily, which correlates to the enormous expenses of waste management. The critical issue for better waste management is waste collection and sorting. In this study, the Electronic Smart Sorting- Internet of Things (ESS-IoT) is proposed to assist people in better waste management. The ESS-IoT system uses Raspberry Pi 4b as the microcontroller with three modules, and it is designed with two main functions: waste collection and waste classification. The two main functions have been deployed separately in the literature, while this study has combined both functions to achieve a more comprehensive smart bin waste disposal solution. Waste collection is triggered by the overflow alarm mechanism that employs ultrasonic and tracker sensors. On the other hand, the waste classification is implemented using two classification algorithms: Random Forest (RF) prediction model and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) prediction model. An experiment is conducted to evaluate the accuracy of the two classification algorithms in classifying various types of waste. The waste materials under investigation can be classified into four categories: kitchen waste, recyclables, hazardous waste, and other waste. The results show that CNN is the better classification algorithm between the two. Future work proposes the research extension by introducing an incentive mechanism to motivate the household communities using a cloud-based competition platform incorporated with the ESS-IoT system.
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Irfan S, Anjum N, Althobaiti T, Alotaibi AA, Siddiqui AB, Ramzan N. Heartbeat Classification and Arrhythmia Detection Using a Multi-Model Deep-Learning Technique. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:s22155606. [PMID: 35957162 PMCID: PMC9370835 DOI: 10.3390/s22155606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2022] [Revised: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Cardiac arrhythmias pose a significant danger to human life; therefore, it is of utmost importance to be able to efficiently diagnose these arrhythmias promptly. There exist many techniques for the detection of arrhythmias; however, the most widely adopted method is the use of an Electrocardiogram (ECG). The manual analysis of ECGs by medical experts is often inefficient. Therefore, the detection and recognition of ECG characteristics via machine-learning techniques have become prevalent. There are two major drawbacks of existing machine-learning approaches: (a) they require extensive training time; and (b) they require manual feature selection. To address these issues, this paper presents a novel deep-learning framework that integrates various networks by stacking similar layers in each network to produce a single robust model. The proposed framework has been tested on two publicly available datasets for the recognition of five micro-classes of arrhythmias. The overall classification sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and accuracy of the proposed approach are 98.37%, 99.59%, 98.41%, and 99.35%, respectively. The results are compared with state-of-the-art approaches. The proposed approach outperformed the existing approaches in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, accuracy and computational cost.
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- Saad Irfan
- Department of Computer Science, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; (S.I.); (A.B.S.)
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- Department of Computer Science, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; (S.I.); (A.B.S.)
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- Faculty of Science, Northern Border University, Arar 1321, Saudi Arabia;
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- Department of Computer Science, Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan; (S.I.); (A.B.S.)
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- School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, UK;
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Santos Rodrigues A, Augustauskas R, Lukoševičius M, Laguna P, Marozas V. Deep-Learning-Based Estimation of the Spatial QRS-T Angle from Reduced-Lead ECGs. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:5414. [PMID: 35891094 PMCID: PMC9328169 DOI: 10.3390/s22145414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 07/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The spatial QRS-T angle is a promising health indicator for risk stratification of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Thus far, the angle is estimated solely from 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) systems uncomfortable for ambulatory monitoring. Methods to estimate QRS-T angles from reduced-lead ECGs registered with consumer healthcare devices would, therefore, facilitate ambulatory monitoring. (1) Objective: Develop a method to estimate spatial QRS-T angles from reduced-lead ECGs. (2) Approach: We designed a deep learning model to locate the QRS and T wave vectors necessary for computing the QRS-T angle. We implemented an original loss function to guide the model in the 3D space to search for each vector's coordinates. A gradual reduction of ECG leads from the largest publicly available dataset of clinical 12-lead ECG recordings (PTB-XL) is used for training and validation. (3) Results: The spatial QRS-T angle can be estimated from leads {I, II, aVF, V2} with sufficient accuracy (absolute mean and median errors of 11.4° and 7.3°) for detecting abnormal angles without sacrificing patient comfortability. (4) Significance: Our model could enable ambulatory monitoring of spatial QRS-T angles using patch- or textile-based ECG devices. Populations at risk of SCD, like chronic cardiac and kidney disease patients, might benefit from this technology.
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- Ana Santos Rodrigues
- Biomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, 51423 Kaunas, Lithuania;
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- Department of Automation, Kaunas University of Technology, 51367 Kaunas, Lithuania;
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- Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, 51368 Kaunas, Lithuania;
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- Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation (BSICoS) Group, Aragón Institute of Engineering Research (I3A), IIS Aragón, University of Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain;
- Biomedical Research Networking Center (CIBER), 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Biomedical Engineering Institute, Kaunas University of Technology, 51423 Kaunas, Lithuania;
- Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kaunas University of Technology, 51367 Kaunas, Lithuania
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Automated Detection of Left Bundle Branch Block from ECG Signal Utilizing the Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform with ANFIS. COMPUTERS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/computers11060093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Left bundle branch block (LBBB) is a common disorder in the heart’s electrical conduction system that leads to the ventricles’ uncoordinated contraction. The complete LBBB is usually associated with underlying heart failure and other cardiac diseases. Therefore, early automated detection is vital. This work aimed to detect the LBBB through the QRS electrocardiogram (ECG) complex segments taken from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. The used data contain 2655 LBBB (abnormal) and 1470 normal signals (i.e., 4125 total signals). The proposed method was employed in the following steps: (i) QRS segmentation and filtration, (ii) application of the Maximal Overlapped Discrete Wavelet Transform (MODWT) on the ECG R wave, (iii) selection of the detailed coefficients of the MODWT (D2, D3, D4), kurtosis, and skewness as extracted features to be fed into the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) classifier. The obtained results proved that the proposed method performed well based on the achieved sensitivity, specificity, and classification accuracies of 99.81%, 100%, and 99.88%, respectively (F-Score is equal to 0.9990). Our results showed that the proposed method was robust and effective and could be used in real clinical situations.
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Ojha MK, Wadhwani S, Wadhwani AK, Shukla A. Automatic detection of arrhythmias from an ECG signal using an auto-encoder and SVM classifier. Phys Eng Sci Med 2022; 45:665-674. [PMID: 35304901 DOI: 10.1007/s13246-022-01119-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Millions of people around the world are affected by arrhythmias, which are abnormal activities of the functioning of the heart. Most arrhythmias are harmful to the heart and can suddenly become life-threatening. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important non-invasive tool in cardiology for the diagnosis of arrhythmias. This work proposes a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to automatically classify different types of arrhythmias from ECG signals. First, the auto-encoder convolutional network (ACN) model is used, which is based on a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) that automatically learns the best features from the raw ECG signals. After that, the support vector machine (SVM) classifier is applied to the features learned by the ACN model to improve the detection of arrhythmic beats. This classifier detects four different types of arrhythmias, namely the left bundle branch block (LBBB), right bundle branch block (RBBB), paced beat (PB), and premature ventricular contractions (PVC), along with the normal sinus rhythms (NSR). Among these arrhythmias, PVC is particularly a dangerous type of heartbeat in ECG signals. The performance of the model is measured in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, and precision using a tenfold cross-validation strategy on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. The obtained overall accuracy of the SVM classifier was 98.84%. The result of this model is portrayed as a better performance than in other literary works. Thus, this approach may also help in further clinical studies of cardiac cases.
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- Manoj Kumar Ojha
- Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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- Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Convolutional Neural Networks for Mechanistic Driver Detection in Atrial Fibrillation. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23084216. [PMID: 35457044 PMCID: PMC9032062 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23084216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2022] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The maintaining and initiating mechanisms of atrial fibrillation (AF) remain controversial. Deep learning is emerging as a powerful tool to better understand AF and improve its treatment, which remains suboptimal. This paper aims to provide a solution to automatically identify rotational activity drivers in endocardial electrograms (EGMs) with convolutional recurrent neural networks (CRNNs). The CRNN model was compared with two other state-of-the-art methods (SimpleCNN and attention-based time-incremental convolutional neural network (ATI-CNN)) for different input signals (unipolar EGMs, bipolar EGMs, and unipolar local activation times), sampling frequencies, and signal lengths. The proposed CRNN obtained a detection score based on the Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.680, an ATI-CNN score of 0.401, and a SimpleCNN score of 0.118, with bipolar EGMs as input signals exhibiting better overall performance. In terms of signal length and sampling frequency, no significant differences were found. The proposed architecture opens the way for new ablation strategies and driver detection methods to better understand the AF problem and its treatment.
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Petmezas G, Stefanopoulos L, Kilintzis V, Tzavelis A, Rogers JA, Katsaggelos AK, Maglaveras N. State-of-the-art Deep Learning Methods on Electrocardiogram Data: A Systematic Review (Preprint). JMIR Med Inform 2022; 10:e38454. [PMID: 35969441 PMCID: PMC9425174 DOI: 10.2196/38454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2022] [Revised: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most common noninvasive diagnostic tools that can provide useful information regarding a patient’s health status. Deep learning (DL) is an area of intense exploration that leads the way in most attempts to create powerful diagnostic models based on physiological signals. Objective This study aimed to provide a systematic review of DL methods applied to ECG data for various clinical applications. Methods The PubMed search engine was systematically searched by combining “deep learning” and keywords such as “ecg,” “ekg,” “electrocardiogram,” “electrocardiography,” and “electrocardiology.” Irrelevant articles were excluded from the study after screening titles and abstracts, and the remaining articles were further reviewed. The reasons for article exclusion were manuscripts written in any language other than English, absence of ECG data or DL methods involved in the study, and absence of a quantitative evaluation of the proposed approaches. Results We identified 230 relevant articles published between January 2020 and December 2021 and grouped them into 6 distinct medical applications, namely, blood pressure estimation, cardiovascular disease diagnosis, ECG analysis, biometric recognition, sleep analysis, and other clinical analyses. We provide a complete account of the state-of-the-art DL strategies per the field of application, as well as major ECG data sources. We also present open research problems, such as the lack of attempts to address the issue of blood pressure variability in training data sets, and point out potential gaps in the design and implementation of DL models. Conclusions We expect that this review will provide insights into state-of-the-art DL methods applied to ECG data and point to future directions for research on DL to create robust models that can assist medical experts in clinical decision-making.
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- Georgios Petmezas
- Lab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical-Imaging Technologies, The Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Lab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical-Imaging Technologies, The Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Lab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical-Imaging Technologies, The Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
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- Department of Material Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
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- Lab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical-Imaging Technologies, The Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Mishra A, Dharahas G, Gite S, Kotecha K, Koundal D, Zaguia A, Kaur M, Lee HN. ECG Data Analysis with Denoising Approach and Customized CNNs. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:s22051928. [PMID: 35271073 PMCID: PMC8915034 DOI: 10.3390/s22051928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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In the last decade, the proactive diagnosis of diseases with artificial intelligence and its aligned technologies has been an exciting and fruitful area. One of the areas in medical care where constant monitoring is required is cardiovascular diseases. Arrhythmia, one of the cardiovascular diseases, is generally diagnosed by doctors using Electrocardiography (ECG), which records the heart's rhythm and electrical activity. The use of neural networks has been extensively adopted to identify abnormalities in the last few years. It is found that the probability of detecting arrhythmia increases if the denoised signal is used rather than the raw input signal. This paper compares six filters implemented on ECG signals to improve classification accuracy. Custom convolutional neural networks (CCNNs) are designed to filter ECG data. Extensive experiments are drawn by considering the six ECG filters and the proposed custom CCNN models. Comparative analysis reveals that the proposed models outperform the competitive models in various performance metrics.
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- Abhinav Mishra
- Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune 412115, India; (A.M.); (G.D.); (S.G.)
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- Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune 412115, India; (A.M.); (G.D.); (S.G.)
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- Symbiosis Centre for Applied AI, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Pune 412115, India;
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- Department of Systemics, School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India;
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- Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia;
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea;
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Korea;
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Zhu W, Ma G, Zheng L, Chen Y, Qiu L, Wang L. Inter-patient arrhythmia identification method with RR-intervals and convolutional neural networks. Physiol Meas 2022; 43. [PMID: 35213844 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6579/ac58de] [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: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The arrhythmia identification method based on the U-net has the potential for fast application. The RR-intervals have been proven to improve the performance of single-heartbeat identification methods. However, because both the heartbeats number and location in the input of the U-net are unfixed, the approach based on the U-net cannot use RR-intervals directly. To solve this problem, we proposed a novel method. The proposed method also can identify heartbeats of four classes, including Non-ectopic (N), Supraventricular ectopic beat (SVEB), Ventricular ectopic beat (VEB), and Fusion beat (F). APPROACH Our method consists of the pre-processing and the two-stage identification framework. In the pre-processing part, we filtered input signals with a band-pass filter and created the auxiliary waveforms by RR-intervals. In the first stage of the framework, we designed a network to handle input signals and auxiliary waveforms. We proposed a masking operation to separate the input signal into two signals according to the result of the network. The first signal contains heartbeats of SVEB and VEB. The second signal includes heartbeats of N and F. The second stage consists of two networks and can further identify the heartbeats of SVEB, VEB, N, and F from these two signals. MAIN RESULT We validated our method on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database with the inter-patient model. For classes N, SVEB, VEB, and F, our approach achieved F1 scores of 98.26, 68.61, 95.99, and 47.75, respectively. Significant. Our method not only can effectively utilize RR intervals but also can identify multiple arrhythmias.
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- Wenliang Zhu
- School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, No.96, JinZhai Road Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, CHINA
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- School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, No.96, JinZhai Road Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, CHINA
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- School of Electronics and Information Technology, Soochow University, No.1 Shizi Road, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215000, CHINA
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- School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, No.96, JinZhai Road Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, CHINA
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- School of Biomedical Engineering (Suzhou), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, No.96, JinZhai Road Baohe District, Hefei, 230026, CHINA
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- Soochow University, No.1 Shizi Road, Suzhou, 215000, CHINA
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Anumukonda M, Lakkamraju P, Chowdhury SR. FPGA-Based High-Performance Phonocardiography System for Extraction of Cardiac Sound Components Using Inverse Delayed Neuron Model. FRONTIERS IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY 2022; 3:666650. [PMID: 35047923 PMCID: PMC8757846 DOI: 10.3389/fmedt.2021.666650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The study focuses on the extraction of cardiac sound components using a multi-channel micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone-based phonocardiography system. The proposed multi-channel phonocardiography system classifies the cardiac sound components using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and synaptic weights that are calculated using the inverse delayed (ID) function model of the neuron. The proposed ANN model was simulated in MATLABR and implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The proposed system examined both abnormal and normal samples collected from 30 patients. Experimental results revealed a good sensitivity of 99.1% and an accuracy of 0.9.
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- Madhubabu Anumukonda
- Center for Very Large Scale Integration and Embedded Systems Technology, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- Center for Very Large Scale Integration and Embedded Systems Technology, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- School for Computing and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Suran, India
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Lai J, Tang Y, Yang F, Chen J, Huang FH, Yang J, Wang L, Qin D, Law BYK, Wu AG, Wu JM. Targeting autophagy in ethnomedicine against human diseases. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2022; 282:114516. [PMID: 34487846 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2021.114516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE In the past five years, ethnopharmacy-based drugs have been increasingly used in clinical practice. It has been reported that hundreds of ethnopharmacy-based drugs can modulate autophagy to regulate physiological and pathological processes, and ethnomedicines also have certain therapeutic effects on illnesses, revealing the important roles of these medicines in regulating autophagy and treating diseases. AIM OF THE STUDY This study reviews the regulatory effects of natural products on autophagy in recent years, and discusses their pharmacological effects and clinical applications in the process of diseases. It provides a preliminary literature basis and reference for the research of plant drugs in the regulation of autophagy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A comprehensive systematic review in the fields of relationship between autophagy and ethnomedicine in treating diseases from PubMed electronic database was performed. Information was obtained from documentary sources. RESULTS We recorded some illnesses associated with autophagy, then classified them into different categories reasonably. Based on the uses of these substances in different researches of diseases, a total of 80 active ingredients or compound preparations of natural drugs were searched. The autophagy mechanisms of these substances in the treatments of divers diseases have been summarized for the first time, we also looked forward to the clinical application of some of them. CONCLUSIONS Autophagy plays a key function in lots of illnesses, the regulation of autophagy has become one of the important means to prevent and treat these diseases. About 80 compounds and preparations involved in this review have been proved to have therapeutic effects on related diseases through the mechanism of autophagy. Experiments in vivo and in vitro showed that these compounds and preparations could treat these diseases by regulating autophagy. The typical natural products curcumin and tripterine have powerful roles in regulating autophagy and show good and diversified curative effects.
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- Jia Lai
- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology, Sichuan Key Medical Laboratory of New Drug Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Luzhou Key Laboratory of Activity Screening and Druggability Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China; State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China; Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology, Sichuan Key Medical Laboratory of New Drug Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Luzhou Key Laboratory of Activity Screening and Druggability Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China; Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology, Sichuan Key Medical Laboratory of New Drug Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Luzhou Key Laboratory of Activity Screening and Druggability Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China; Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology, Sichuan Key Medical Laboratory of New Drug Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Luzhou Key Laboratory of Activity Screening and Druggability Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China; Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology, Sichuan Key Medical Laboratory of New Drug Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Luzhou Key Laboratory of Activity Screening and Druggability Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China.
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China; Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Medical Electrophysiology, Sichuan Key Medical Laboratory of New Drug Discovery and Druggability Evaluation, Luzhou Key Laboratory of Activity Screening and Druggability Evaluation for Chinese Materia Medica, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China.
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Li X, Zhang F, Sun Z, Li D, Kong X, Zhang Y. Automatic heartbeat classification using S-shaped reconstruction and a squeeze-and-excitation residual network. Comput Biol Med 2022; 140:105108. [PMID: 34875410 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.105108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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To facilitate the identification of arrhythmia, in this study, an S-shaped reconstruction method was proposed, and a two-dimensional (2-D) 19-layer deep squeeze-and-excitation residual network (SE-ResNet) was used to classify heartbeats. The proposed method has three steps. The first step involves data preprocessing, which includes denoising of the original electrocardiogram (ECG) data, removing of baseline drift, heartbeat extraction, and data balancing using a synthetic minority oversampling technique algorithm. Subsequently, the extracted one-dimensional heartbeat series is transformed into a 2-D matrix by employing the novel S-shaped reconstruction method for determining the relationship between distant points in an ECG series. Finally, the 2-D 19-layer SE-ResNet is used to divide the 2-D heartbeat matrix into five heartbeat categories, namely normal, supraventricular ectopic, ventricular ectopic, fusion, and unknown beats, in accordance with the American National Standards Institute/Advancement of Medical Instrumentation standard, and 10-fold cross-validation is employed to train the 2-D 19-layer SE-ResNet. The accuracy, positive prediction rate, sensitivity, and specificity of the proposed method reached 99.61%, 93.87%, 93.78%, and 99.27%, respectively. The results indicated that the S-shaped reconstruction method can be helpful for acquiring additional information from ECG heartbeat data.
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- Xiangyu Li
- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, China
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, China
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- Information Department, The Eighth People's Hospital of Qingdao, China
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, China
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, China.
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- School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, China.
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Combining Rhythm Information between Heartbeats and BiLSTM-Treg Algorithm for Intelligent Beat Classification of Arrhythmia. JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING 2021; 2021:8642576. [PMID: 34938424 PMCID: PMC8687765 DOI: 10.1155/2021/8642576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Arrhythmia is a cardiovascular disease that seriously affects human health. The identification and diagnosis of arrhythmia is an effective means of preventing most heart diseases. In this paper, a BiLSTM-Treg algorithm that integrates rhythm information is proposed to realize the automatic classification of arrhythmia. Firstly, the discrete wavelet transform is used to denoise the ECG signal, based on which we performed heartbeat segmentation and preserved the timing relationship between heartbeats. Then, different heartbeat segment lengths and the BiLSTM network model are used to conduct multiple experiments to select the optimal heartbeat segment length. Finally, the tree regularization method is used to optimize the BiLSTM network model to improve classification accuracy. And the interpretability of the neural network model is analyzed by analyzing the simulated decision tree generated in the tree regularization method. This method divides the heartbeat into five categories (nonectopic (N), supraventricular ectopic (S), ventricular ectopic (V), fused heartbeats (F), and unknown heartbeats (Q)) and is validated on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. The results show that the overall classification accuracy of the algorithm is 99.32%. Compared with other methods of classifying heartbeat, the BiLSTM-Treg network model algorithm proposed in this paper not only improves the classification accuracy and obtains higher sensitivity and positive predictive value but also has higher interpretability.
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