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Applications · Statistics 2013-11-26 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Luc Vandendorpe

Early detection of cardiovascular diseases is crucial for effective treatment and an electrocardiogram (ECG) is pivotal for diagnosis. The accuracy of Deep Learning based methods for ECG signal classification has progressed in recent years…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Likith Reddy , Vivek Talwar , Shanmukh Alle , Raju. S. Bapi , U. Deva Priyakumar

Automated segmentation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) plays a pivotal role in efficiently assessing cardiac function, offering rapid clinical evaluations that benefit both healthcare practitioners and patients. While recent research…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Abdul Qayyum , Hao Xu , Brian P. Halliday , Cristobal Rodero , Christopher W. Lanyon , Richard D. Wilkinson , Steven Alexander Niederer

Heartbeat classification using electrocardiogram (ECG) data is a vital assistive technology for wearable health solutions. We propose heartbeat feature classification based on a novel sparse representation using time-frequency joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Anup Das , Francky Catthoor , Siebren Schaafsma

Accelerating the acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem, and many works have been proposed to reconstruct images from undersampled k-space data. However, if the main purpose is to extract certain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-22 Chen Qin , Wenjia Bai , Jo Schlemper , Steffen E. Petersen , Stefan K. Piechnik , Stefan Neubauer , Daniel Rueckert

Automated heart sounds classification is a much-required diagnostic tool in the view of increasing incidences of heart related diseases worldwide. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive study of heart sounds classification by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Balagopal Unnikrishnan , Pranshu Ranjan Singh , Xulei Yang , Matthew Chin Heng Chua

The 3D volumetric shape of the heart's left ventricle (LV) myocardium (MYO) wall provides important information for diagnosis of cardiac disease and invasive procedure navigation. Many cardiac image segmentation methods have relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Meng Ye , Qiaoying Huang , Dong Yang , Pengxiang Wu , Jingru Yi , Leon Axel , Dimitris Metaxas

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are vital for monitoring cardiac health, enabling the assessment of heart rate variability (HRV), detection of arrhythmias, and diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions. However, ECG signals recorded from wearable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sharmad Kalpande , Nilesh Kumar Sahu , Haroon Lone

Phonemic segmentation of speech is a critical step of speech recognition systems. We propose a novel unsupervised algorithm based on sequence prediction models such as Markov chains and recurrent neural network. Our approach consists in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Paul Michel , Okko Räsänen , Roland Thiollière , Emmanuel Dupoux

Brain tumor segmentation is a challenging problem in medical image analysis. The endpoint is to generate the salient masks that accurately identify brain tumor regions in an fMRI screening. In this paper, we propose a novel attention gate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Tim Cvetko

The HeartBert model is introduced with three primary objectives: reducing the need for labeled data, minimizing computational resources, and simultaneously improving performance in machine learning systems that analyze Electrocardiogram…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Saedeh Tahery , Fatemeh Hamid Akhlaghi , Termeh Amirsoleimani

Convolutional neural network (CNN) based segmentation methods provide an efficient and automated way for clinicians to assess the structure and function of the heart in cardiac MR images. While CNNs can generally perform the segmentation…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia classification remains challenging due to signal variability, noise, limited labeled data, and the difficulty in achieving both accuracy and efficiency in models. While self-supervised learning reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mahsa Gazeran , Sayvan Soleymanbaigi , Fatemeh Daneshfar , Amjad Seyedi , Fardin Akhlaghian Tab

In recent years, research has highlighted the association between increased adipose tissue surrounding the human heart and elevated susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases such as atrial fibrillation and coronary heart disease. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Guilherme Santos da Silva , Dalcimar Casanova , Jefferson Tales Oliva , Erick Oliveira Rodrigues

We propose a novel semi-supervised image segmentation method that simultaneously optimizes a supervised segmentation and an unsupervised reconstruction objectives. The reconstruction objective uses an attention mechanism that separates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Shuai Chen , Gerda Bortsova , Antonio Garcia-Uceda Juarez , Gijs van Tulder , Marleen de Bruijne

Segmentation of image sequences is an important task in medical image analysis, which enables clinicians to assess the anatomy and function of moving organs. However, direct application of a segmentation algorithm to each time frame of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Wenjia Bai , Hideaki Suzuki , Chen Qin , Giacomo Tarroni , Ozan Oktay , Paul M. Matthews , Daniel Rueckert

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the electrical measurement of cardiac activity, whereas Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is the optical measurement of volumetric changes in blood circulation. While both signals are used for heart rate monitoring, from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Previous studies on echocardiogram segmentation are focused on the left ventricle in parasternal long-axis views. In this study, deep-learning models were evaluated on the segmentation of the ventricles in parasternal short-axis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Julian Rene Cuellar Buritica , Vu Dinh , Manjula Burri , Julie Roelandts , James Wendling , Jon D. Klingensmith

The analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals can be time consuming as it is performed manually by cardiologists. Therefore, automation through machine learning (ML) classification is being increasingly proposed which would allow ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Shourya Verma

Auscultation is the most efficient way to diagnose cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. To reach accurate diagnoses, a device must be able to recognize heart and lung sounds from various clinical situations. However, the recorded chest…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-14 Kun-Hsi Tsai , Wei-Chien Wang , Chui-Hsuan Cheng , Chan-Yen Tsai , Jou-Kou Wang , Tzu-Hao Lin , Shih-Hau Fang , Li-Chin Chen , Yu Tsao