An IoT and Fog Computing-Based Monitoring System for Cardiovascular Patients with Automatic ECG Classification Using Deep Neural Networks

Jaime A Rincon; Solanye Guerra-Ojeda; Carlos Carrascosa; Vicente Julian

doi:10.3390/s20247353

An IoT and Fog Computing-Based Monitoring System for Cardiovascular Patients with Automatic ECG Classification Using Deep Neural Networks

Sensors (Basel). 2020 Dec 21;20(24):7353. doi: 10.3390/s20247353.

Authors

Jaime A Rincon¹, Solanye Guerra-Ojeda², Carlos Carrascosa¹, Vicente Julian¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut Valencià d'Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial (VRAIN), Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain.
² Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Universitat de València, 46010 València, Spain.

Abstract

Telemedicine and all types of monitoring systems have proven to be a useful and low-cost tool with a high level of applicability in cardiology. The objective of this work is to present an IoT-based monitoring system for cardiovascular patients. The system sends the ECG signal to a Fog layer service by using the LoRa communication protocol. Also, it includes an AI algorithm based on deep learning for the detection of Atrial Fibrillation and other heart rhythms. The automatic detection of arrhythmias can be complementary to the diagnosis made by the physician, achieving a better clinical vision that improves therapeutic decision making. The performance of the proposed system is evaluated on a dataset of 8.528 short single-lead ECG records using two merge MobileNet networks that classify data with an accuracy of 90% for atrial fibrillation.

Keywords: ECG; Edge-AI; Fog-AI; IoT; LoRa; cardiovascular diseases.

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Atrial Fibrillation* / diagnosis
Cardiovascular Diseases / diagnosis*
Cloud Computing
Electrocardiography*
Humans
Internet of Things*
Monitoring, Physiologic
Neural Networks, Computer*

Abstract

MeSH terms

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