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Techniques for visualizing LSTMs applied to electrocardiograms

Machine Learning 2018-06-18 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper explores four different visualization techniques for long short-term memory (LSTM) networks applied to continuous-valued time series. On the datasets analysed, we find that the best visualization technique is to learn an input deletion mask that optimally reduces the true class score. With a specific focus on single-lead electrocardiograms from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset, we show that salient input features for the LSTM classifier align well with medical theory.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.08153,
  title  = {Techniques for visualizing LSTMs applied to electrocardiograms},
  author = {Jos van der Westhuizen and Joan Lasenby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08153},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

presented at 2018 ICML Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning (WHI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden

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