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17 Citations
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20 March 2023

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 vibrati...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,667 Views
17 Pages

ECG Classification Based on Wasserstein Scalar Curvature

  • Fupeng Sun,
  • Yin Ni,
  • Yihao Luo and
  • Huafei Sun

11 October 2022

Electrocardiograms (ECG) analysis is one of the most important ways to diagnose heart disease. This paper proposes an efficient ECG classification method based on Wasserstein scalar curvature to comprehend the connection between heart disease and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,075 Views
13 Pages

Novel DERMA Fusion Technique for ECG Heartbeat Classification

  • Qurat-ul-ain Mastoi,
  • Teh Ying Wah,
  • Mazin Abed Mohammed,
  • Uzair Iqbal and ,
  • Seifedine Kadry,
  • Arnab Majumdar and
  • Orawit Thinnukool
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 June 2022

An electrocardiogram (ECG) consists of five types of different waveforms or characteristics (P, QRS, and T) that represent electrical activity within the heart. Identification of time intervals and morphological appearance of the waves are the major...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Methods and Data Analysis in Health and Biomedical Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,646 Views
18 Pages

ECG Signal Features Classification for the Mental Fatigue Recognition

  • Eglė Butkevičiūtė,
  • Aleksėjus Michalkovič and
  • Liepa Bikulčienė

19 September 2022

Mental fatigue is a major public health issue worldwide that is common among both healthy and sick people. In the literature, various modern technologies, together with artificial intelligence techniques, have been proposed. Most techniques consider...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Statistical Techniques with Applications to Health and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
459 Citations
22,833 Views
16 Pages

5 August 2016

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most important techniques for heart disease diagnosis. Many traditional methodologies of feature extraction and classification have been widely applied to ECG analysis. However, the effectiveness and efficien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy on Biosignals and Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,343 Views
23 Pages

30 June 2022

Health monitoring and related technologies are a rapidly growing area of research. To date, the electrocardiogram (ECG) remains a popular measurement tool in the evaluation and diagnosis of heart disease. The number of solutions involving ECG signal...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors, Image, and Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,140 Views
15 Pages

19 March 2025

In real-world scenarios, ECG data are collected from a diverse range of heterogeneous devices, including high-end medical equipment and consumer-grade wearable devices, each with varying computational capabilities and constraints. This heterogeneity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Edge Computing for IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,124 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Instruction Driven 1-D CNN Processor for ECG Classification

  • Jiawen Deng,
  • Jie Yang,
  • Xin’an Wang and
  • Xing Zhang

5 July 2024

Electrocardiography (ECG) has emerged as a ubiquitous diagnostic tool for the identification and characterization of diverse cardiovascular pathologies. Wearable health monitoring devices, equipped with on-device biomedical artificial intelligence (A...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,423 Views
15 Pages

Research on ECG Signal Classification Based on Hybrid Residual Network

  • Tianyu Qi,
  • He Zhang,
  • Huijun Zhao,
  • Chong Shen and
  • Xiaochen Liu

1 December 2024

Arrhythmia detection in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is essential for monitoring cardiovascular health. Current automated arrhythmia classification methods frequently encounter difficulties in detecting multiple cardiac abnormalities, particularly...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,773 Views
21 Pages

Automatic Classification of Anomalous ECG Heartbeats from Samples Acquired by Compressed Sensing

  • Enrico Picariello,
  • Francesco Picariello,
  • Ioan Tudosa,
  • Sreeraman Rajan and
  • Luca De Vito

In this paper, a method for the classification of anomalous heartbeats from compressed ECG signals is proposed. The method operating on signals acquired by compressed sensing is based on a feature extraction stage consisting of the evaluation of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosignal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
198 Citations
14,805 Views
26 Pages

A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for ECG-Based Arrhythmia Classification

  • Parul Madan,
  • Vijay Singh,
  • Devesh Pratap Singh,
  • Manoj Diwakar and ,
  • Bhaskar Pant and
  • Avadh Kishor
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Arrhythmias are defined as irregularities in the heartbeat rhythm, which may infrequently occur in a human’s life. These arrhythmias may cause potentially fatal complications, which may lead to an immediate risk of life. Thus, the detection and...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied System on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
14,280 Views
23 Pages

Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification Using Advanced Deep Learning Techniques on Digitized ECG Datasets

  • Shoaib Sattar,
  • Rafia Mumtaz,
  • Mamoon Qadir,
  • Sadaf Mumtaz and ,
  • Muhammad Ajmal Khan,
  • Timo De Waele,
  • Eli De Poorter,
  • Ingrid Moerman and
  • Adnan Shahid
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

12 April 2024

ECG classification or heartbeat classification is an extremely valuable tool in cardiology. Deep learning-based techniques for the analysis of ECG signals assist human experts in the timely diagnosis of cardiac diseases and help save precious lives....

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,475 Views
20 Pages

Robust Heartbeat Classification for Wearable Single-Lead ECG via Extreme Gradient Boosting

  • Huaiyu Zhu,
  • Yisheng Zhao,
  • Yun Pan,
  • Hanshuang Xie and ,
  • Fan Wu and
  • Ruohong Huan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 August 2021

Wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring devices have enabled everyday ECG collection in our daily lives. However, the condition of ECG signal acquisition using wearable devices varies and wearable ECG signals could be interfered with by severe no...

(This article belongs to the Section Wearables)
  • Article
  • Open Access
313 Citations
18,357 Views
13 Pages

Automatic ECG Classification Using Continuous Wavelet Transform and Convolutional Neural Network

  • Tao Wang,
  • Changhua Lu,
  • Yining Sun,
  • Mei Yang and ,
  • Chun Liu and
  • Chunsheng Ou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 January 2021

Early detection of arrhythmia and effective treatment can prevent deaths caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD). In clinical practice, the diagnosis is made by checking the electrocardiogram (ECG) beat-by-beat, but this is usually time-consuming and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
13,512 Views
25 Pages

Study of the Few-Shot Learning for ECG Classification Based on the PTB-XL Dataset

  • Krzysztof Pałczyński,
  • Sandra Śmigiel,
  • Damian Ledziński and
  • Sławomir Bujnowski

25 January 2022

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is considered a fundamental of cardiology. The ECG consists of P, QRS, and T waves. Information provided from the signal based on the intervals and amplitudes of these waves is associated with various heart diseases. The f...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sensors, Image, and Signal Processing for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,241 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2020

Stroke is considered as a major cause of death and neurological disorders commonly associated with elderly people. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are used as a powerful tool in diagnosing stroke, and the analysis of ECG signals has become the focus...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Technology Applications in Life, Diseases, and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
7,420 Views
16 Pages

A Deep-Learning Approach to ECG Classification Based on Adversarial Domain Adaptation

  • Lisha Niu,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Shuwang Zhou and
  • Minglei Shu

27 October 2020

Cardiovascular disease has become one of the main diseases threatening human life and health. This disease is very common and troublesome, and the existing medical resources are scarce, so it is necessary to use a computer-aided automatic diagnosis t...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,228 Views
8 Pages

ECG-Signal Multi-Classification Model Based on Squeeze-and-Excitation Residual Neural Networks

  • Junsang Park,
  • Jin-kook Kim,
  • Sunghoon Jung,
  • Yeongjoon Gil and ,
  • Jong-Il Choi and
  • Ho Sung Son
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 September 2020

Accurate electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation is crucial in the clinical ECG workflow because it is most likely associated with a disease that can cause major problems in the body. In this study, we proposed an ECG-signal multi-classification model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrocardiogram (ECG) Signal and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,039 Views
15 Pages

29 October 2024

(1) Background: Arrhythmias, or irregular heart rhythms, are a prevalent cardiovascular condition and are diagnosed using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Advances in deep learning have enabled automated analysis of these signals. However, the effect...

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  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,430 Views
19 Pages

An Embedded System Using Convolutional Neural Network Model for Online and Real-Time ECG Signal Classification and Prediction

  • Wahyu Caesarendra,
  • Taufiq Aiman Hishamuddin,
  • Daphne Teck Ching Lai,
  • Asmah Husaini and ,
  • Lisa Nurhasanah,
  • Adam Glowacz and
  • Gusti Ahmad Fanshuri Alfarisy
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This paper presents an automatic ECG signal classification system that applied the Deep Learning (DL) model to classify four types of ECG signals. In the first part of our work, we present the model development. Four different classes of ECG signals...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Analysis for Medical Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
16,967 Views
16 Pages

Early diagnosis and classification of arrhythmia from an electrocardiogram (ECG) plays a significant role in smart healthcare systems for the health monitoring of individuals with cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, the nonlinearity and low ampli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Enabled Medical Data Analysis and Processing in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,902 Views
12 Pages

k-Labelsets Method for Multi-Label ECG Signal Classification Based on SE-ResNet

  • Jihye Yoo,
  • Yeongbong Jin,
  • Bonggyun Ko and
  • Min-Soo Kim

23 August 2021

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. The ECG is the most commonly used tool for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, and, recently, there are a number of attempts to use deep learning to analyze ECG. In this study, we propo...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
51 Pages

Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disability, and auxiliary methods for rapid patient identification are needed. Previous studies based on electrocardiography (ECG) have attempted stroke classification using quantitative measurements a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation Medical Signal and Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,318 Views
33 Pages

8 January 2023

In recent years, employment in sedentary occupations has continuously risen. Office workers are more prone to prolonged static sitting, spending 65–80% of work hours sitting, increasing risks for multiple health problems, including cardiovascul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Sensing Technologies for Digital Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
260 Citations
16,118 Views
14 Pages

Classification of Arrhythmia by Using Deep Learning with 2-D ECG Spectral Image Representation

  • Amin Ullah,
  • Syed Muhammad Anwar,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Raja Majid Mehmood

25 May 2020

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most extensively employed signals used in the diagnosis and prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The ECG signals can capture the heart’s rhythmic irregularities, commonly known as arrhythmias....

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
74 Citations
8,480 Views
22 Pages

The Use of Time-Frequency Moments as Inputs of LSTM Network for ECG Signal Classification

  • Grzegorz Kłosowski,
  • Tomasz Rymarczyk,
  • Dariusz Wójcik,
  • Stanisław Skowron and ,
  • Tomasz Cieplak and
  • Przemysław Adamkiewicz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 September 2020

This paper refers to the method of using the deep neural long-short-term memory (LSTM) network for the problem of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification. ECG signals contain a lot of subtle information analyzed by doctors to determine the type...

(This article belongs to the Section Bioelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,117 Views
29 Pages

17 February 2025

This paper seeks to solve the classification problem of cardiac arrhythmias by using a small number of electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings. To offer a reasonable solution to this problem, a technique that combines a common matrix approach (CMA)-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Technologies and Intelligent Computing for Biometric Signal Analysis and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,363 Views
17 Pages

Preprocessing-Free Convolutional Neural Network Model for Arrhythmia Classification Using ECG Images

  • Chotirose Prathom,
  • Ryuhi Fukuda,
  • Yuto Yokoyanagi and
  • Yoshifumi Okada

Arrhythmia, which is characterized by irregular heart rhythms, can lead to life-threatening conditions by disrupting the circulatory system. Thus, early arrhythmia detection is crucial for timely and appropriate patient treatment. Machine learning mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Medical and Assistive Technologies Using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
147 Citations
32,033 Views
20 Pages

ECG Signal Classification Using Deep Learning Techniques Based on the PTB-XL Dataset

  • Sandra Śmigiel,
  • Krzysztof Pałczyński and
  • Damian Ledziński

28 August 2021

The analysis and processing of ECG signals are a key approach in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. The main field of work in this area is classification, which is increasingly supported by machine learning-based algorithms. In this work, a de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Recognition, Image Processing and Communications, Selected Papers from CORES 2021 and IP&C 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,188 Views
33 Pages

Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Arrhythmia Classification Based on ECG Signals Using PTB-X Dataset

  • Ahmed E. Mansour Atwa,
  • El-Sayed Atlam,
  • Ali Ahmed,
  • Mohamed Ahmed Atwa and ,
  • Elsaid Md. Abdelrahim and
  • Ali I. Siam
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: Automatic classification of ECG signal arrhythmias plays a vital role in early cardiovascular diagnostics by enabling prompt detection of life-threatening conditions. Manual ECG interpretation is labor-intensive and susceptible...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,074 Views
27 Pages

26 January 2022

ECG pattern classification for identifying the progress status of various heart diseases is a typical nonlinear problem. Therefore, deep learning-based automatic ECG diagnosis is being widely studied, and for this purpose, the CNN is mainly used to c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Computing and Big Data Analysis: Latest Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,846 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2024

In this paper, a novel deep learning method Mamba-RAYOLO is presented, which can improve detection and classification in the processing and analysis of ECG images in real time by integrating three advanced modules. The feature extraction module in ou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Technology and Application in ECG Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,299 Views
19 Pages

Electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia classification remains critical for automated cardiac diagnosis, yet feature extraction methods are frequently adopted without systematic comparative evaluation. This study presents a controlled comparative analysis...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine Learning, Optimization, and Computational Methods in Biomedical Informatics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
819 Views
30 Pages

30 April 2026

Electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat classification is an essential component of automated arrhythmia detection and intelligent cardiac monitoring systems. Traditionally, ECG analysis has depended on manual interpretation by clinicians and conventional...

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  • Open Access
6,602 Views
20 Pages

4 December 2022

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is used to check the electrical activity of the heart over a limited short-term or long-term period. Short-term observations are often used in hospitals or clinics, whereas long-term observations (often called continuous or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern Recognition and Sensor Fusion Solutions in Intelligent Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,639 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2022

The paper proposes a comparative analysis of the projection matrices and dictionaries used for compressive sensing (CS) of electrocardiographic signals (ECG), highlighting the compromises between the complexity of preprocessing and the accuracy of re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Biosignal Processing in Wearable and Implantable Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,357 Views
17 Pages

Accurate ECG Classification Based on Spiking Neural Network and Attentional Mechanism for Real-Time Implementation on Personal Portable Devices

  • Yuxuan Xing,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zhixian Hou,
  • Xiaoran Li and ,
  • Yueting Shi,
  • Yiyang Yuan,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Sen Liang,
  • Zhenzhong Li and
  • Liang Yan
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat classification plays a vital role in early diagnosis and effective treatment, which provide opportunities for earlier prevention and intervention. In an effort to continuously monitor and detect abnormalities in pati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning, Reconfigurable Computing and Machine Learning in Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,595 Views
22 Pages

12 October 2024

Echocardiography (ECG) is a noninvasive technology that is widely used for recording heartbeats and diagnosing cardiac arrhythmias. However, interpreting ECG signals is challenging and may require substantial time from medical specialists. The evolut...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
342 Views
19 Pages

26 September 2026

Objective: Multi-label electrocardiogram (ECG) classification requires modeling morphological patterns across different temporal scales and their sequential relationships while maintaining limited model complexity. This study proposes Multi-Scale Cha...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
13,609 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2021

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, the application of which in electrocardiographic signals is gaining importance. So far, limited studies or optimizations using DNN can be found using ECG databases. To expl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Techniques for Medical Imaging, Sensing, and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,941 Views
17 Pages

7 October 2025

Cardiac arrhythmias are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and accurate classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) beats is critical for early diagnosis and follow-up. Supervised deep learning is effective but requires abun...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,215 Views
25 Pages

9 September 2025

This study assesses how classical and modern features extracted from a single ECG lead (II) influence automated arrhythmia classification. Using the Large Scale 12-Lead Electrocardiogram Database for Arrhythmia Study and MATLAB®, we compared trad...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,332 Views
31 Pages

A Lightweight Multiscale Deep Learning Framework for Automated Cardiovascular Disease Classification from Standard 12-Lead ECG Images

  • Chotirose Prathom,
  • Ryoga Sato,
  • Shinya Watanabe,
  • Satoshi Kondo and ,
  • Kazuhiko Sato and
  • Yoshifumi Okada
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of global mortality, highlighting the need for efficient and reliable automated electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis. While deep learning methods have achieved high classification accuracy, their large...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,445 Views
22 Pages

Robust 12-Lead ECG Classification with Lightweight ResNet: An Adaptive Second-Order Learning Rate Optimization Approach

  • Guolin Yang,
  • Shiyun Zou,
  • Hua Qin,
  • Yuyi Cao and ,
  • Zihan Zhang and
  • Xiangyuan Deng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To enhance the classification accuracy of the ResNet model for 12-lead ECG signals, a novel approach that focuses on optimizing the learning rate within the model training algorithm is proposed. Firstly, a Taylor expansion of the training formula for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,365 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2024

Arrhythmias are among the diseases with high mortality rates worldwide, causing millions of deaths each year. This underscores the importance of real-time electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring for timely heart disease diagnosis and intervention. Deep le...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
629 Views
30 Pages

Hybrid Multi-Domain ECG Feature Learning with mRMR and CNN–Transformer for Cardiac Disease Classification

  • Mohammed Alnusayri,
  • Sara Mumtaz,
  • Bader Aldughayfiq,
  • Hisham Allahem and ,
  • Nabil Almashfi,
  • Dina Abdulaziz AlHammadi and
  • Ahmad Jalal
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Cardiovascular disease diagnosis requires accurate and timely analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to support reliable clinical decision-making. However, ECG signals are inherently non-stationary, exhibit substantial inter-patient variability,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Biomedical Research: Application, Innovation and Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,677 Views
20 Pages

MST-DGCN: Multi-Scale Temporal–Dynamic Graph Convolutional with Orthogonal Gate for Imbalanced Multi-Label ECG Arrhythmia Classification

  • Jie Chen,
  • Mingfeng Jiang,
  • Xiaoyu He,
  • Yang Li and ,
  • Jucheng Zhang,
  • Juan Li,
  • Yongquan Wu and
  • Wei Ke
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 September 2025

Multi-label arrhythmia classification from 12-lead ECG signals is a tricky problem, including spatiotemporal feature extraction, feature fusion, and class imbalance. To address these issues, a multi-scale temporal–dynamic graph convolutional wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering: Challenges and Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,633 Views
23 Pages

ECG monitoring is central to the early detection of cardiac abnormalities. We compared 28 manually selected signal-specific features with 159 automatically extracted signal-independent descriptors from the MIT BIH Arrhythmia Database. ANOVA reduced f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge AI for Biomedical Applications: Innovations in Sensing, Computing and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,565 Views
18 Pages

21 October 2023

Implantable Cardiac Monitor (ICM) devices are demonstrating, as of today, the fastest-growing market for implantable cardiac devices. As such, they are becoming increasingly common in patients for measuring heart electrical activity. ICMs constantly...

(This article belongs to the Topic Bioinformatics and Intelligent Information Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,547 Views
16 Pages

ECG Heartbeat Classification Using Echo State Networks with Noisy Reservoirs and Variable Activation Function

  • Ioannis P. Antoniades,
  • Anastasios N. Tsiftsis,
  • Christos K. Volos,
  • Andreas D. Tsigopoulos and ,
  • Konstantia G. Kyritsi and
  • Hector E. Nistazakis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this work, we use an Echo State Network (ESN) model, which is essentially a recurrent neural network (RNN) operating according to the reservoir computing (RC) paradigm, to classify individual ECG heartbeats using the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Experiments/Process/System Modeling/Simulation/Optimization (IC-EPSMSO 2025))

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