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In this paper, we present a powerful, compact electrocardiogram (ECG) classification algorithm for cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis that addresses the current reliance on deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in ECG analysis.…

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

Cardiovascular system diseases can be identified by using a specialized diagnostic process utilizing a digital stethoscope. Digital stethoscopes provide phonocardiography (PCG) recordings for further inspection, besides filtering and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Ibrahim Ozkan , Atila Yilmaz

Cardiac segmentation from late gadolinium enhancement MRI is an important task in clinics to identify and evaluate the infarction of myocardium. The automatic segmentation is however still challenging, due to the heterogeneous intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Qian Yue , Xinzhe Luo , Qing Ye , Lingchao Xu , Xiahai Zhuang

Due to the recent advances in the area of deep learning, it has been demonstrated that a deep neural network, trained on a huge amount of data, can recognize cardiac arrhythmias better than cardiologists. Moreover, traditionally feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Milad Salem , Shayan Taheri , Jiann Shiun-Yuan

With tens of thousands of electrocardiogram (ECG) records processed by mobile cardiac event recorders every day, heart rhythm classification algorithms are an important tool for the continuous monitoring of patients at risk. We utilise an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Patrick Schwab , Gaetano Scebba , Jia Zhang , Marco Delai , Walter Karlen

Cardiovascular (CV) diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, and auscultation is typically an essential part of a cardiovascular examination. The ability to diagnose a patient based on their heart sounds is a rather difficult…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Erika Bondareva , Jing Han , William Bradlow , Cecilia Mascolo

This paper aims to classify a single PCG recording as normal or abnormal for computer-aided diagnosis. The proposed framework for this challenge has four steps: preprocessing, feature extraction, training and validation. In the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-23 Hong Tang , Huaming Chen , Ting Li , Mingjun Zhong

Heart murmurs provide valuable information about mechanical activity of the heart, which aids in diagnosis of various heart valve diseases. This work does automatic and accurate heart murmur detection from phonocardiogram (PCG) recordings.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Ahmed Patwa , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Current deep neural network (DNN) based speech separation faces a fundamental challenge -- while the models need to be trained on short segments due to computational constraints, real-world applications typically require processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

We propose two deep neural network architectures for classification of arbitrary-length electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings and evaluate them on the atrial fibrillation (AF) classification data set provided by the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Martin Zihlmann , Dmytro Perekrestenko , Michael Tschannen

We have recently shown that deep Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) outperform feed forward deep neural networks (DNNs) as acoustic models for speech recognition. More recently, we have shown that the performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Haşim Sak , Andrew Senior , Kanishka Rao , Françoise Beaufays

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

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

Environmental audio tagging is a newly proposed task to predict the presence or absence of a specific audio event in a chunk. Deep neural network (DNN) based methods have been successfully adopted for predicting the audio tags in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Qiang Huang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

We study the segmental recurrent neural network for end-to-end acoustic modelling. This model connects the segmental conditional random field (CRF) with a recurrent neural network (RNN) used for feature extraction. Compared to most previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Liang Lu , Lingpeng Kong , Chris Dyer , Noah A. Smith , Steve Renals

Electrophysiological observation plays a major role in epilepsy evaluation. However, human interpretation of brain signals is subjective and prone to misdiagnosis. Automating this process, especially seizure detection relying on scalp-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Clinton Fookes , Kien Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential signal in monitoring human heart activities. Researchers have achieved promising results in leveraging ECGs in clinical applications with deep learning models. However, the mainstream deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Han Yu , Huiyuan Yang , Akane Sano

Cardiac auscultation is the most practiced non-invasive and cost-effective procedure for the early diagnosis of heart diseases. While machine learning based systems can aid in automatically screening patients, the robustness of these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Shabnam Ghaffarzadegan , Md. Istiaq Ansari , Zhe Feng , Taufiq Hasan

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