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With the development of deep learning-based methods, automated classification of electrocardiograms (ECGs) has recently gained much attention. Although the effectiveness of deep neural networks has been encouraging, the lack of information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Wenrui Zhang , Xinxin Di , Guodong Wei , Shijia Geng , Zhaoji Fu , Shenda Hong

Echocardiography image quality assessment is not a trivial issue in transthoracic examination. As the in vivo examination of heart structures gained prominence in cardiac diagnosis, it has been affirmed that accurate diagnosis of the left…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Robert B. Labs , Massoud Zolgharni , Jonathan P. Loo

In this work we present a new idea to develop a method to separate stochastic and deterministic information contained in an electrocardiogram, ECG, which may provide new sources of information with diagnostic purposes. We assume that the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-16 R. M. Gutiérrez , L. Sandoval

In tabular biomedical data analysis, tuning models to high accuracy is considered a prerequisite for discussing feature importance, as medical practitioners expect the validity of feature importance to correlate with performance. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Youngro Lee , Giacomo Baruzzo , Jeonghwan Kim , Jongmo Seo , Barbara Di Camillo

A novel approach for analysing cardiac rhythm data is presented in this paper. Heartbeats are decomposed into the five fundamental $P$, $Q$, $R$, $S$ and $T$ waves plus an error term to account for artefacts in the data which provides a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-04 Cristina Rueda , Yolanda Larriba , Adrián Lamela

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

An arrhythmia, also known as a dysrhythmia, refers to an irregular heartbeat. There are various types of arrhythmias that can originate from different areas of the heart, resulting in either a rapid, slow, or irregular heartbeat. An…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Taymaz Akan , Sait Alp , Mohammad Alfrad Nobel Bhuiyan

Classification and prediction of heart disease is a significant problem to realize medical treatment and life protection. In this paper, persistent homology is involved to analyze electrocardiograms and a novel heart disease classification…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-01 Yin Ni , Fupeng Sun , Yihao Luo , Zhengrui Xiang , Huafei Sun

Ensuring timely and accurate diagnosis of medical conditions is paramount for effective patient care. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are fundamental for evaluating a patient's cardiac health and are readily available. Despite this, little…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

Electrocardiograms (ECG) analysis is one of the most important ways to diagnose heart disease. This paper proposes an efficient ECG classification method based on Wasserstein scalar curvature to comprehend the connection between heart…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fupeng Sun , Yin Ni , Yihao Luo , Huafei Sun

Feature selection plays an important role in the data mining process. It is needed to deal with the excessive number of features, which can become a computational burden on the learning algorithms. It is also necessary, even when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Tarek Amr Abdallah , Beatriz de La Iglesia

An accurate assessment of the cardiovascular system and prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are crucial. Measured cardiac blood flow data provide insights about patient-specific hemodynamics, where many specialized techniques have…

Cardiovascular diseases state as one of the greatest risks of death for the general population. Late detection in heart diseases highly conditions the chances of survival for patients. Age, sex, cholesterol level, sugar level, heart rate,…

Objective: Global (inter-patient) ECG classification for arrhythmia detection over Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is a challenging task for both humans and machines. The main reason is the significant variations of both normal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Muhammad Uzair Zahid , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

This paper describe the features extraction algorithm for electrocardiogram (ECG) signal using Huang Hilbert Transform and Wavelet Transform. ECG signal for an individual human being is different due to unique heart structure. The purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Neha Soorma , Jaikaran Singh , Mukesh Tiwari

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a vital tool for diagnosing heart diseases. However, many disease patterns are derived from outdated datasets and traditional stepwise algorithms with limited accuracy. This study presents a method for direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Oğuzhan Büyüksolak , İlkay Öksüz

Classifier specific (CS) and classifier agnostic (CA) feature importance methods are widely used (often interchangeably) by prior studies to derive feature importance ranks from a defect classifier. However, different feature importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Shaowei Wang , Yasutaka Kamei , Ahmed E. Hassan

The classification of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has a vital impact on identifying heart-related diseases. This can ensure the premature finding of heart disease and the proper selection of the patient's customized treatment.…

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

The electrocardiogram (ECG) remains a fundamental tool in cardiac diagnostics, yet its interpretation traditionally reliant on the expertise of cardiologists. The emergence of deep learning has heralded a revolutionary era in medical data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Cheng Ding , Tianliang Yao , Chenwei Wu , Jianyuan Ni