Cardiovascular disease is now one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in humans.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a reliable tool for monitoring the health of the cardiovascular system.
Currently, there has been a lot of focus on accurately categorizing heartbeats. There is a high demand on automatic ECG classification systems to assist medical professionals. In this paper we proposed a new deep learning method called HeartNet for developing an automatic ECG classifier. The
proposed deep learning method is compressed by multi-head attention mechanism on top of CNN
model. The main challenge of insufficient data label is solved by adversarial data synthesis adopting generative adversarial network (GAN) with generating additional training samples. It drastically improves the overall performance of the proposed method by 5-10% on each insufficient data label category. We evaluated our proposed method utilizing MIT-BIH dataset. Our proposed method
has shown 99.67 ± 0.11 accuracy and 89.24 ± 1.71 MCC trained with adversarial data synthesized
dataset. However, we have also utilized two individual datasets such as Atrial Fibrillation Detection Database and PTB Diagnostic Database to see the performance of our proposed model on ECG
classification. The effectiveness and robustness of proposed method are validated by extensive
experiments, comparison and analysis. Later on, we also highlighted some limitations of this work.
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