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The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most common primary tests to evaluate the health of the heart. Reliable automatic interpretation of ECG records is crucial to the goal of improving public health. It can enable a safe inexpensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Laura Rebollo-Neira , Khalil Battikh , Amadou Sidi Watt

Electrocardiogram (ECG) can be reliably used as a measure to monitor the functionality of the cardiovascular system. Recently, there has been a great attention towards accurate categorization of heartbeats. While there are many…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mohammad Kachuee , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Deep learning approaches for heart-sound (PCG) segmentation built on time-frequency features can be accurate but often rely on large expert-labeled datasets, limiting robustness and deployment. We present TopSeg, a topological…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Peihong Zhang , Zhixin Li , Yuxuan Liu , Rui Sang , Yiqiang Cai , Yizhou Tan , Shengchen Li

Objective: To develop and interpret a supervised variational autoencoder (VAE) model for classifying cardiotocography (CTG) signals based on pregnancy outcomes, addressing interpretability limits of current deep learning approaches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 John Tolladay , Beth Albert , Gabriel Davis Jones

Motivation: In forensic or medico-legal investigation as well as in anthropology the gender determination of the subject (hit by a disastrous or any kind of traumatic situation) is mostly the first step. In state-of-the-art techniques the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Mumtaz A. Kaloi , Kun He

Objective: The utility of fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring can only be achieved with an acquisition sampling rate that preserves the underlying physiological information on the millisecond time scale (1000 Hz rather than 4 Hz). For such…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 C Shen , MG Frasch , HT Wu , CL Herry , M Cao , A Desrochers , G Fecteau , P Burns

Ventricular Fibrillation (VF), one of the most dangerous arrhythmias, is responsible for sudden cardiac arrests. Thus, various algorithms have been developed to predict VF from Electrocardiogram (ECG), which is a binary classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Saifur Rahman , M. Sohel Rahman

Ultrasound-based fetal biometric measurements, such as head circumference (HC) and biparietal diameter (BPD), are commonly used to evaluate the gestational age and diagnose fetal central nervous system (CNS) pathology. Since manual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Hwa Pyung Kim , Sung Min Lee , Ja-Young Kwon , Yejin Park , Kang Cheol Kim , Jin Keun Seo

Acoustic signals are crucial for health monitoring, particularly heart sounds which provide essential data like heart rate and detect cardiac anomalies such as murmurs. This study utilizes a publicly available phonocardiogram (PCG) dataset…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jingping Nie , Ran Liu , Behrooz Mahasseni , Erdrin Azemi , Vikramjit Mitra

Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Shyam A , Vignesh Ravichandran , Preejith S. P , Jayaraj Joseph , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Long-term fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring during the antepartum period, increasingly popularized by electronic FHR monitoring, represents a growing approach in FHR monitoring. This kind of continuous monitoring, in contrast to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zenghui Lin , Xintong Liu , Nan Wang , Ruichen Li , Qingao Liu , Jingying Ma , Liwei Wang , Yan Wang , Shenda Hong

Regular physiological monitoring of maternal and fetal parameters is indispensable for ensuring safe outcomes during pregnancy and parturition. Fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) assessment is crucial to detect fetal distress and developmental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Tai Le , Hau Luu , Loan Pham-Nguyen , Hung Viet-Dao , Duc Nguyen Minh , Afshan B. Hameed , Hoang Nguyen , Liem Thanh Nguyen , Huy-Dung Han , Hung Cao

Electrocardiogram (ECG), a technique for medical monitoring of cardiac activity, is an important method for identifying cardiovascular disease. However, analyzing the increasing quantity of ECG data consumes a lot of medical resources. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Xinyao Hou , Shengmei Qin , Jianbo Su

The multiple fundamental frequency detection problem and the source separation problem from a single-channel signal containing multiple oscillatory components and a nonstationary noise are both challenging tasks. To extract the fetal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-13 Su Li , Hau-tieng Wu

In primary diagnosis and analysis of heart defects, an ECG signal plays a significant role. This paper presents a model for the prediction of ventricular tachycardia arrhythmia using noise filtering, a unique set of ECG features, and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Pampa Howladar , Manodipan Sahoo

A large number of people suffer from life-threatening cardiac abnormalities, and electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is beneficial to determining whether an individual is at risk of such abnormalities. Automatic ECG classification methods,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yuexin Bian , Jintai Chen , Xiaojun Chen , Xiaoxian Yang , Danny Z. Chen , JIan Wu

Cardiac abnormalities affecting heart rate and rhythm are commonly observed in both healthy and acutely unwell people. Although many of these are benign, they can sometimes indicate a serious health risk. ECG monitors are typically used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 Stewart Whiting , Samuel Moreland , Jason Costello , Glen Colopy , Christopher McCann

Deep learning has been shown to accurately assess 'hidden' phenotypes and predict biomarkers from medical imaging beyond traditional clinician interpretation of medical imaging. Given the black box nature of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Grant Duffy , Shoa L. Clarke , Matthew Christensen , Bryan He , Neal Yuan , Susan Cheng , David Ouyang

Panoramic Dental Radiography (PDR) image processing is one of the most extensively used manual methods for gender determination in forensic medicine. With the assistance of the PDR images, a person's biological gender determination can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 I. Atas

Gynaecologists and obstetricians visually interpret cardiotocography (CTG) traces using the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) guidelines to assess the wellbeing of the foetus during antenatal care. This approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Paul Fergus , Carl Chalmers , Casimiro Curbelo Montanez , Denis Reilly , Paulo Lisboa , Beth Pineles