An Electrocardiogram Delineator via Deep Segmentation Network

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul:2019:1913-1916. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8856987.

Abstract

Electrocardiogram (ECG) delineation is a process to detect multiple characteristic points, which contain critical diagnostic information about cardiac diseases. We treat the ECG delineation task as an one-dimensional segmentation problem, and propose a novel end-to-end deep learning method to segment sections of ECG signal. Our neural network consists of two parts: a segmentation network composed of multiple 1D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and a postprocessing network composed of a sequential Conditional Random Field (CRF). Our method is trained and validated on QT database. The experimental results show that our method yields competitive overall performance compared with other state-of-the-art works and outperform them on onset of the P wave and offset of the T wave.

MeSH terms

  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Deep Learning*
  • Electrocardiography*
  • Humans
  • Neural Networks, Computer*