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Electrocardiography analysis is widely used in various clinical applications and Deep Learning models for classification tasks are currently in the focus of research. Due to their data-driven character, they bear the potential to handle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Theresa Bender , Philip Gemke , Ennio Idrobo-Avila , Henning Dathe , Dagmar Krefting , Nicolai Spicher

Early identification of abnormal physiological patterns is essential for the timely detection of cardiac disease. This work introduces a hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural network (QCNN) designed to classify S3 and murmur…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yasaman Torabi , Shahram Shirani , James P. Reilly

Auscultation for neonates is a simple and non-invasive method of providing diagnosis for cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Such diagnosis often requires high-quality heart and lung sounds to be captured during auscultation. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Yang Yi Poh , Ethan Grooby , Kenneth Tan , Lindsay Zhou , Arrabella King , Ashwin Ramanathan , Atul Malhotra , Mehrtash Harandi , Faezeh Marzbanrad

Evaluating canine electrocardiograms (ECG) require skilled veterinarians, but current availability of veterinary cardiologists for ECG interpretation and diagnostic support is limited. Developing tools for automated assessment of ECG…

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a critical condition that demands early detection, particularly in infancy and childhood. This study presents a deep learning model designed to detect CHD using phonocardiogram (PCG) signals, with a focus…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Abdul Jabbar , Ethan Grooby , Jack Crozier , Alexander Gallon , Vivian Pham , Khawza I Ahmad , Md Hassanuzzaman , Raqibul Mostafa , Ahsan H. Khandoker , Faezeh Marzbanrad

Arrhythmia is a cardiovascular disease that manifests irregular heartbeats. In arrhythmia detection, the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is an important diagnostic technique. However, manually evaluating ECG signals is a complicated and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Jindi Lv , Qing Ye , Yanan Sun , Juan Zhao , Jiancheng Lv

Cardiac auscultation is one of the most cost-effective techniques used to detect and identify many heart conditions. Computer-assisted decision systems based on auscultation can support physicians in their decisions. Unfortunately, the…

Accurately interpreting cardiac auscultation signals plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases. However, the paucity of labelled data inhibits classification models' training. Researchers have turned to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Leigh Abbott , Milan Marocchi , Matthew Fynn , Yue Rong , Sven Nordholm

In this article, we propose the optimization of the resolution of time-frequency atoms and the regularization of fitting models to obtain better representations of heart sound signals. This is done by evaluating the classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Mahmoud Fakhry , Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín

Automatic heart sound abnormality detection can play a vital role in the early diagnosis of heart diseases, particularly in low-resource settings. The state-of-the-art algorithms for this task utilize a set of Finite Impulse Response (FIR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan , Zhe Feng , Taufiq Hasan

This study proposes an efficient neural network with convolutional layers to classify significantly class-imbalanced clinical data. The data are curated from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) with the goal of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-24 Aniruddha Dutta , Tamal Batabyal , Meheli Basu , Scott T. Acton

Echocardiogram video plays a crucial role in analysing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiac diseases. Current deep neural network methods primarily aim to enhance diagnosis accuracy by incorporating prior knowledge, such as segmenting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Jiewen Yang , Yiqun Lin , Bin Pu , Jiarong Guo , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaomeng Li

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Amin Ullah , Syed M. Anwar , Muhammad Bilal , Raja M Mehmood

Electrocardiograms (ECGs), a medical monitoring technology recording cardiac activity, are widely used for diagnosing cardiac arrhythmia. The diagnosis is based on the analysis of the deformation of the signal shapes due to irregular heart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Parshuram N. Aarotale , Ajita Rattani

Heart disease remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Auscultation, the process of listening to heart sounds, can be enhanced through computer-aided analysis using Phonocardiogram (PCG) signals. This paper presents a novel approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Manas Madine

Heart auscultations are a low-cost and effective way of detecting valvular heart diseases early, which can save lives. Nevertheless, it has been difficult to scale this screening method since the effectiveness of auscultations is dependent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Ansh Mishra , Jia Qi Yip , Eng Siong Chng

This paper presents an innovative and generic deep learning approach to monitor heart conditions from ECG signals.We focus our attention on both the detection and classification of abnormal heartbeats, known as arrhythmia. We strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Meryll Dindin , Yuhei Umeda , Frederic Chazal

We train an enhanced deep convolutional neural network in order to identify eight cardiac abnormalities from the standard 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) using the dataset of 14000 ECGs. Instead of straightforwardly applying an end-to-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Binhang Yuan , Wenhui Xing

We report on a method that classifies heart beats according to a set of 13 classes, including cardiac arrhythmias. The method localises the QRS peak complex to define each heart beat and uses a neural network to infer the patterns…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-12 Carla Sofia Carvalho

Physiological signals, such as the electrocardiogram and the phonocardiogram are very often corrupted by noisy sources. Usually, artificial intelligent algorithms analyze the signal regardless of its quality. On the other hand, physicians…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Jorge Oliveira , Margarida Carvalho , Diogo Marcelo Nogueira , Miguel Coimbra