An Energy Efficient ECG Ventricular Ectopic Beat Classifier Using Binarized CNN for Edge AI Devices

IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2022 Apr;16(2):222-232. doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2022.3152623. Epub 2022 May 19.

Abstract

Wearable Artificial Intelligence-of-Things (AIoT) requires edge devices to be resource and energy-efficient. In this paper, we design and implement an efficient binary convolutional neural network (bCNN) algorithm utilizing function-merging and block-reuse techniques to classify between Ventricular and non-Ventricular Ectopic Beat images. We deploy our model into a low-resource low-power field programmable gate array (FPGA) fabric. Our model achieves a classification accuracy of 97.3%, sensitivity of 91.3%, specificity of 98.1%, precision of 86.7%, and F1-score of 88.9%, along with dynamic power dissipation of only 10.5-μW.

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Conservation of Energy Resources
  • Electrocardiography
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Ventricular Premature Complexes*