scholarly journals Supervised SVM Transfer Learning for Modality-Specific Artefact Detection in ECG

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 662
Author(s):  
Jonathan Moeyersons ◽  
John Morales ◽  
Amalia Villa ◽  
Ivan Castro ◽  
Dries Testelmans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Capacitively Coupled ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Artefact Detection ◽  
Important Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important diagnostic tool for identifying cardiac problems. Nowadays, new ways to record ECG signals outside of the hospital are being investigated. A promising technique is capacitively coupled ECG (ccECG), which allows ECG signals to be recorded through insulating materials. However, as the ECG is no longer recorded in a controlled environment, this inevitably implies the presence of more artefacts. Artefact detection algorithms are used to detect and remove these. Typically, the training of a new algorithm requires a lot of ground truth data, which is costly to obtain. As many labelled contact ECG datasets exist, we could avoid the use of labelling new ccECG signals by making use of previous knowledge. Transfer learning can be used for this purpose. Here, we applied transfer learning to optimise the performance of an artefact detection model, trained on contact ECG, towards ccECG. We used ECG recordings from three different datasets, recorded with three recording devices. We showed that the accuracy of a contact-ECG classifier improved between 5 and 8% by means of transfer learning when tested on a ccECG dataset. Furthermore, we showed that only 20 segments of the ccECG dataset are sufficient to significantly increase the accuracy.

scholarly journals Capturing Electrocardiogram Signals from Chairs by Multiple Capacitively Coupled Unipolar Electrodes

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongjie Hou ◽  
Jinxi Xiang ◽  
Yonggui Dong ◽  
Xiaohui Xue ◽  
Hao Xiong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Printed Circuit Board ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Circuit Board ◽  
Signal Acquisition ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Capacitively Coupled ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Printed Circuit ◽  
Electrocardiogram Signals ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

A prototype of an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal acquisition system with multiple unipolar capacitively coupled electrodes is designed and experimentally tested. Capacitively coupled electrodes made of a standard printed circuit board (PCB) are used as the sensing electrodes. Different from the conventional measurement schematics, where one single lead ECG signal is acquired from a pair of sensing electrodes, the sensing electrodes in our approaches operate in a unipolar mode, i.e., the biopotential signals picked up by each sensing electrodes are amplified and sampled separately. Four unipolar electrodes are mounted on the backrest of a regular chair and therefore four channel of signals containing ECG information are sampled and processed. It is found that the qualities of ECG signal contained in the four channel are different from each other. In order to pick up the ECG signal, an index for quality evaluation, as well as for aggregation of multiple signals, is proposed based on phase space reconstruction. Experimental tests are carried out while subjects sitting on the chair and clothed. The results indicate that the ECG signals can be reliably obtained in such a unipolar way.

scholarly journals TWO-LEAD JOINT DETECTION ALGORITHM OF QRS COMPLEXES IN ECG SIGNAL

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
WANSONG XU ◽  
TIANWU CHEN ◽  
FANYU DU
Keyword(s):  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Joint Detection ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Threshold Adjustment ◽  
Current Algorithm ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

Objective: The detection of QRS complexes is an important part of computer-aided analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG). However, most of the existing detection algorithms are mainly for single-lead ECG signals, which requires high quality of signal. If the signal quality decreases suddenly due to some interference, then the current algorithm is easy to cause misjudgment or missed detection. To improve the detection ability of QRS complexes under sudden interference, we study the QRS complexes information on multiple leads in-depth, and propose a two-lead joint detection algorithm of QRS complexes. Methods: Firstly, the suspected QRS complexes are screened on the main lead. For the suspected QRS complexes with low confidence and the complexes that may be missed, further accurate detection and joint judgment shall be carried out at the corresponding position of the auxiliary lead. At the same time, the adaptive threshold adjustment algorithm and backtracking mechanism are used to modify the detection results. Results: The proposed detection algorithm is validated using 48 ECG records of the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, and achieves average detection accuracy of 99.71%, sensitivity of 99.88% and positive predictivity of 99.81%. Conclusion: The proposed algorithm has high accuracy, which can effectively deal with the sudden interference of ECG signal. Meanwhile, the algorithm requires small amount of computation, and can be embedded into hardware for real-time detection.

Gravitational community detection by predicting diameter

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150145
Author(s):  
Himansu Sekhar Pattanayak ◽  
Harsh K. Verma ◽  
Amrit Lal Sangal
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Np Hard Problem ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
The Individual

Community detection is a pivotal part of network analysis and is classified as an NP-hard problem. In this paper, a novel community detection algorithm is proposed, which probabilistically predicts communities’ diameter using the local information of random seed nodes. The gravitation method is then applied to discover communities surrounding the seed nodes. The individual communities are combined to get the community structure of the whole network. The proposed algorithm, named as Local Gravitational community detection algorithm (LGCDA), can also work with overlapping communities. LGCDA algorithm is evaluated based on quality metrics and ground-truth data by comparing it with some of the widely used community detection algorithms using synthetic and real-world networks.

scholarly journals Fall Detection from Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signals and Classification by Deep Transfer Learning

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Fatima Sajid Butt ◽  
Luigi La Blunda ◽  
Matthias F. Wagner ◽  
Jörg Schäfer ◽  
Inmaculada Medina-Bulo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Continuous Wavelet ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Electrocardiogram Signals ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Neural Network ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

Fall is a prominent issue due to its severe consequences both physically and mentally. Fall detection and prevention is a critical area of research because it can help elderly people to depend less on caregivers and allow them to live and move more independently. Using electrocardiograms (ECG) signals independently for fall detection and activity classification is a novel approach used in this paper. An algorithm has been proposed which uses pre-trained convolutional neural networks AlexNet and GoogLeNet as a classifier between the fall and no fall scenarios using electrocardiogram signals. The ECGs for both falling and no falling cases were obtained as part of the study using eight volunteers. The signals are pre-processed using an elliptical filter for signal noises such as baseline wander and power-line interface. As feature extractors, frequency-time representations (scalograms) were obtained by applying a continuous wavelet transform on the filtered ECG signals. These scalograms were used as inputs to the neural network and a significant validation accuracy of 98.08% was achieved in the first model. The trained model is able to distinguish ECGs with a fall activity from an ECG with a no fall activity with an accuracy of 98.02%. For the verification of the robustness of the proposed algorithm, our experimental dataset was augmented by adding two different publicly available datasets to it. The second model can classify fall, daily activities and no activities with an accuracy of 98.44%. These models were developed by transfer learning from the domain of real images to the medical images. In comparison to traditional deep learning approaches, the transfer learning not only avoids “reinventing the wheel,” but also presents a lightweight solution to otherwise computationally heavy problems.

scholarly journals NILMPEds: A Performance Evaluation Dataset for Event Detection Algorithms in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

Data ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Individual Model ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Initial Release ◽  
Load Monitoring ◽  
Evaluation Dataset

Datasets are important for researchers to build models and test how these perform, as well as to reproduce research experiments from others. This data paper presents the NILM Performance Evaluation dataset (NILMPEds), which is aimed primarily at research reproducibility in the field of Non-intrusive load monitoring. This initial release of NILMPEds is dedicated to event detection algorithms and is comprised of ground-truth data for four test datasets, the specification of 47,950 event detection models, the power events returned by each model in the four test datasets, and the performance of each individual model according to 31 performance metrics.

scholarly journals Modeling the Three-Dimensional Chromatin Structure from Hi-C Data with Transfer Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan Meynier Georges ◽  
Maria Anna Rapsomaniki
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Chromatin Structure ◽  
Structure Prediction ◽  
3D Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Contact Frequency ◽  
3D Chromatin Structure

Recent studies have revealed the importance of three-dimensional (3D) chromatin structure in the regulation of vital biological processes. Contrary to protein folding, no experimental procedure that can directly determine ground-truth 3D chromatin coordinates exists. Instead, chromatin conformation is studied implicitly using high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) methods that quantify the frequency of all pairwise chromatin contacts. Computational methods that infer the 3D chromatin structure from Hi-C data are thus unsupervised, and limited by the assumption that contact frequency determines Euclidean distance. Inspired by recent developments in deep learning, in this work we explore the idea of transfer learning to address the crucial lack of ground-truth data for 3D chromatin structure inference. We present a novel method, Transfer learning Encoder for CHromatin 3D structure prediction (TECH-3D) that combines transfer learning with creative data generation procedures to reconstruct chromatin structure. Our work outperforms previous deep learning attempts for chromatin structure inference and exhibits similar results as state-of-the-art algorithms on many tests, without making any assumptions on the relationship between contact frequencies and Euclidean distances. Above all, TECH-3D presents a highly creative and novel approach, paving the way for future deep learning models.

scholarly journals Classification of Heart conditions by Statistical Characterization of ECG Signal

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Haque ◽  
Abdur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Statistical Characterization ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Heart Patients ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal exhibits important distinctive feature for different cardiac issues. Automatic classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal can be used for primary detection of various heart conditions. Information about heart and ischemic changes of heart may be obtained from cleaned ECG signals. ECG signal has an important role in monitoring and diacritic of the heart patients. An accurate ECG classification is challenging problem. The accuracy often depends on proper selection of observing parameters as well as detection algorithms. Heart disorder means abnormal rhythm or abnormalities present in the heart. In this research work, we have developed a decision tree based algorithm to classify heart problems by utilizing the statistical signal characteristic (SSC) of an ECG signal. The proposed model has been tested with real ECG signal to successfully (60-98%) detect normal, apnea and ventricular tachyarrhythmia condition.

scholarly journals Detection of cardiac arrhythmia using deep CNN and optimized SVM

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Mohebbanaaz Mohebbanaaz ◽  
Y. Padma Sai ◽  
L. V. Rajani Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Cardiac Arrhythmia ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Automated Classification ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Deep Cnn ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg

<span>Deep learning (DL) <span>has become a topic of study in various applications, including healthcare. Detection of abnormalities in an electrocardiogram (ECG) plays a significant role in patient monitoring. It is noted that a deep neural network when trained on huge data, can easily detect cardiac arrhythmia. This may help cardiologists to start treatment as early as possible. This paper proposes a new deep learning model adapting the concept of transfer learning to extract deep-CNN features and facilitates automated classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) into sixteen types of ECG beats using an optimized support vector machine (SVM). The proposed strategy begins with gathering ECG datasets, removal of noise from ECG signals, and extracting beats from denoised ECG signals. Feature extraction is done using ResNet18 via concept of transfer learning. These extracted features are classified using optimized SVM. These methods are evaluated and tested on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. Our proposed model is effective compared to all State of Art Techniques with an accuracy of 98.70%.</span></span>

scholarly journals Transfer learning for ECG classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuba Weimann ◽  
Tim O. F. Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Ecg Signals ◽  
Heart Arrhythmia ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Monitoring Devices

AbstractRemote monitoring devices, which can be worn or implanted, have enabled a more effective healthcare for patients with periodic heart arrhythmia due to their ability to constantly monitor heart activity. However, these devices record considerable amounts of electrocardiogram (ECG) data that needs to be interpreted by physicians. Therefore, there is a growing need to develop reliable methods for automatic ECG interpretation to assist the physicians. Here, we use deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to classify raw ECG recordings. However, training CNNs for ECG classification often requires a large number of annotated samples, which are expensive to acquire. In this work, we tackle this problem by using transfer learning. First, we pretrain CNNs on the largest public data set of continuous raw ECG signals. Next, we finetune the networks on a small data set for classification of Atrial Fibrillation, which is the most common heart arrhythmia. We show that pretraining improves the performance of CNNs on the target task by up to $$6.57\%$$ 6.57 % , effectively reducing the number of annotations required to achieve the same performance as CNNs that are not pretrained. We investigate both supervised as well as unsupervised pretraining approaches, which we believe will increase in relevance, since they do not rely on the expensive ECG annotations. The code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/kweimann/ecg-transfer-learning.

scholarly journals Registered report protocol: Developing an artifact index for capacitive electrocardiography signals acquired with an armchair

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254780
Author(s):  
Joana M. Warnecke ◽  
Ju Wang ◽  
Tolga Cakir ◽  
Nicolai Spicher ◽  
Nagarajan Ganapathy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Synchronization ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Video Camera ◽  
Signal Quality ◽  
Ground Truth Data ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Minute Duration ◽  
Electrocardiogram Ecg ◽  
Ground Truth Information

Continuous monitoring of an electrocardiogram (ECG) in private diagnostic spaces such as vehicles or apartments allows early detection of cardiovascular diseases. We will use an armchair with integrated capacitive electrodes to record the capacitive electrocardiogram (cECG) during everyday activities. However, movements and other artifacts affect the signal quality. Therefore, an artifact index is needed to detect artifacts and classify the cECG. The unavailability of cECG data and reliable ground truth information requires new recordings to develop an artifact index. This study is designed to test the hypothesis: an artifact index can be devised, which intends to estimate the signal quality of segments and classify signals. In a single-arm study with 44 subjects, we will record two activities of 11-minute duration: reading and watching television. During recording, we will capture cECG, ECG, and oxygen saturation (SpO2) with time synchronization as well as keypoint-based movement indicators obtained from a video camera. SpO2 provides additional information on the subject’s health status. The keypoint-based movements indicate artifacts in the cECG. We will combine all ground truth data to evaluate the index. In the future, we aim at using the artifact index to exclude cECG segments with artifacts from further analysis. This will improve cECG technology for the measurement of cardiovascular parameters.

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