Two Might Do: A Beat-by-Beat Classification of Cardiac Abnormalities Using Deep Learning with Domain-Specific Features

Author(s):  
Berken Utku Demirel ◽  
Adnan Harun Dogan ◽  
Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
2020 ◽  
pp. 42-49
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Monika Gupta

Internet of Things (IoT) based healthcare applications have grown exponentially over the past decade. With the increasing number of fatalities due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), it is the need of the hour to detect any signs of cardiac abnormalities as early as possible. This calls for automation on the detection and classification of said cardiac abnormalities by physicians. The problem here is that, there is not enough data to train Deep Learning models to classify ECG signals accurately because of sensitive nature of data and the rarity of certain cases involved in CVDs. In this paper, we propose a framework which involves Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to create synthetic training data for the classes with less data points to improve the performance of Deep Learning models trained with the dataset. With data being input from sensors via cloud and this model to classify the ECG signals, we expect the framework to be functional, accurate and efficient.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatdow Pansombut ◽  
Siripen Wikaisuksakul ◽  
Kittiya Khongkraphan ◽  
Aniruth Phon-on

This paper presents the recognition for WHO classification of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) subtypes. The two ALL subtypes considered are T-lymphoblastic leukaemia (pre-T) and B-lymphoblastic leukaemia (pre-B). They exhibit various characteristics which make it difficult to distinguish between subtypes from their mature cells, lymphocytes. In a common approach, handcrafted features must be well designed for this complex domain-specific problem. With deep learning approach, handcrafted feature engineering can be eliminated because a deep learning method can automate this task through the multilayer architecture of a convolutional neural network (CNN). In this work, we implement a CNN classifier to explore the feasibility of deep learning approach to identify lymphocytes and ALL subtypes, and this approach is benchmarked against a dominant approach of support vector machines (SVMs) applying handcrafted feature engineering. Additionally, two traditional machine learning classifiers, multilayer perceptron (MLP), and random forest are also applied for the comparison. The experiments show that our CNN classifier delivers better performance to identify normal lymphocytes and pre-B cells. This shows a great potential for image classification with no requirement of multiple preprocessing steps from feature engineering.


Author(s):  
Sameerchand Pudaruth ◽  
Sunjiv Soyjaudah ◽  
Rajendra Gunputh

Laws are often developed in a piecemeal approach and many provisions of similar nature are often found in different legislations. Therefore, there is a need to classify legislations into various legal topics to help legal professionals in their daily activities. In this study, we have experimented with various deep learning architectures for the automatic classification of 490 legislations from the Republic of Mauritius into 30 categories. Our results demonstrate that a Deep Neural Network (DNN) with three hidden layers delivered the best performance compared with other architectures such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). A mean classification accuracy of 60.9% was achieved using DNN, 56.5% for CNN and 33.7% for Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). Comparisons were also made with traditional machine learning classifiers such as support vector machines and decision trees and it was found that the performance of DNN was superior, by at least 10%, in all runs. Both general pre-trained word embeddings such as Word2vec and domain-specific word embeddings such as Law2vec were used in combination with the above deep learning architectures but Word2vec had the best performance. To our knowledge, this is the first application of deep learning in the categorisation of legislations.


Author(s):  
Yuejun Liu ◽  
Yifei Xu ◽  
Xiangzheng Meng ◽  
Xuguang Wang ◽  
Tianxu Bai

Background: Medical imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis of thyroid diseases. In the field of machine learning, multiple dimensional deep learning algorithms are widely used in image classification and recognition, and have achieved great success. Objective: The method based on multiple dimensional deep learning is employed for the auxiliary diagnosis of thyroid diseases based on SPECT images. The performances of different deep learning models are evaluated and compared. Methods: Thyroid SPECT images are collected with three types, they are hyperthyroidism, normal and hypothyroidism. In the pre-processing, the region of interest of thyroid is segmented and the amount of data sample is expanded. Four CNN models, including CNN, Inception, VGG16 and RNN, are used to evaluate deep learning methods. Results: Deep learning based methods have good classification performance, the accuracy is 92.9%-96.2%, AUC is 97.8%-99.6%. VGG16 model has the best performance, the accuracy is 96.2% and AUC is 99.6%. Especially, the VGG16 model with a changing learning rate works best. Conclusion: The standard CNN, Inception, VGG16, and RNN four deep learning models are efficient for the classification of thyroid diseases with SPECT images. The accuracy of the assisted diagnostic method based on deep learning is higher than that of other methods reported in the literature.


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