ECG Signal Classification with Deep Learning for Heart Disease Identification

Wenbo Zhang, Limin Yu, Lishan Ye, Weifen Zhuang, Fei Ma

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Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is widely used in medical diagnosis of heart diseases. Automatic extraction of relevant and reliable information from ECG signals has not been an easy task for computerized system. This study proposes to use 12-layer 1-d CNN to classify 1 lead individual heartbeat signal into five classes of heart diseases. The proposed method was tested on MIT/BIH arrhythmia database and results were measured using positive predictive value, sensitivity and F1 score. Our proposed method obtained a positive predictive value of 0.977, sensitivity of 0.976, and F1 score of 0.976. Comparing with the results obtained by other four methods on the same database, our method was found superior on all three measures.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, BDAI 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages47-51
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538661369
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Nov 2018
Event2018 International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, BDAI 2018 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Jun 201824 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, BDAI 2018

Conference

Conference2018 International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, BDAI 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/06/1824/06/18

Keywords

  • 1D Convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
  • ECG classification
  • Electrocardiogram
  • Heart diseases diagnosis

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