ECG signal classification in wearable devices based on compressed domain

PLoS One. 2023 Apr 4;18(4):e0284008. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284008. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

Wearable devices are often used to diagnose arrhythmia, but the electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring process generates a large amount of data, which will affect the detection speed and accuracy. In order to solve this problem, many studies have applied deep compressed sensing (DCS) technology to ECG monitoring, which can under-sampling and reconstruct ECG signals, greatly optimizing the diagnosis process, but the reconstruction process is complex and expensive. In this paper, we propose an improved classification scheme for deep compressed sensing models. The framework is comprised of four modules: pre-processing; compression; and classification. Firstly, the normalized ECG signals are compressed adaptively in the three convolutional layers, and then the compressed data is directly put into the classification network to obtain the results of four kinds of ECG signals. We conducted our experiments on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database and Ali Cloud Tianchi ECG signal Database to validate the robustness of our model, adopting Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity and F1-score as the evaluation metrics. When the compression ratio (CR) is 0.2, our model has 98.16% accuracy, 98.28% average accuracy, 98.09% Sensitivity and 98.06% F1-score, all of which are better than other models.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Arrhythmias, Cardiac / diagnosis
  • Data Compression* / methods
  • Electrocardiography / methods
  • Humans
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Wearable Electronic Devices*

Grants and funding

This research was funded by Jiangxi Natural Science Foundation (Grant No.20224BAB202038) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61861021). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.