Leveraging electrocardiography signals for deep learning-driven cardiovascular disease classification model

Abstract

Electrocardiography (ECG) is the most non-invasive diagnostic tool for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Automatic analysis of ECG signals assists in accurately and rapidly detecting life-threatening arrhythmias like atrioventricular blockage, atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, etc. The ECG recognition models need to utilize algorithms to detect various kinds of waveforms in the ECG and identify complicated relationships over time. However, the high variability of wave morphology among patients and noise are challenging issues. Physicians frequently utilize automated ECG abnormality recognition models to classify long-term ECG signals. Recently, deep learning (DL) models can be used to achieve enhanced ECG recognition accuracy in the healthcare decision making system. In this aspect, this study introduces an automated DL enabled ECG signal recognition (ADL-ECGSR) technique for CVD detection and classification. The ADL-ECGSR technique employs three most important subprocesses: pre-processed, feature extraction, parameter tuning, and classification. Besides, the ADL-ECGSR technique involves the design of a bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) based feature extractor, and the Adamax optimizer is utilized to optimize the trained method of the BiLSTM model. Finally, the dragonfly algorithm (DFA) with a stacked sparse autoencoder (SSAE) module is applied to recognize and classify EEG signals. An extensive range of simulations occur on benchmark PTB-XL datasets to validate the enhanced ECG recognition efficiency. The comparative analysis of the ADL-ECGSR methodology showed a remarkable performance of 91.24 % on the existing methods.

Keywords

• Healthcare
• ECG signals
• Cardiovascular disease
• Deep learning
• Pattern recognition
• Parameter tuning