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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Background:

  • Electrocardiogram (ECG) quality is crucial for accurate cardiovascular disease diagnosis.
  • Automated ECG analysis faces challenges due to data limitations and low signal-to-noise ratios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an accurate and automatic ECG quality assessment algorithm.
  • To objectively evaluate multi-lead ECG recordings using a novel feature fusion approach.

Main Methods:

  • A double-input convolutional neural network (CNN) integrating deep-learned spectral features (S-Transform spectrograms) and hand-crafted statistical features (lead-fall, baseline drift, R peak).
  • Feature fusion via concatenation and a fully connected layer for quality classification.
  • Log-odds analysis with gradient-based methods for localizing abnormalities.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a mean accuracy of 93.09% and a mean F1-score of 0.8472 on a public database.
  • Demonstrated high sensitivity of 0.9767 in ECG quality assessment.
  • The fusion approach showed complementary advantages and ideal interpretability.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed algorithm offers an effective end-to-end solution for multi-lead ECG quality assessment.
  • Combining deep spectral and hand-crafted statistical features enhances assessment performance and interpretability.
  • This method supports automated diagnosis and reduces manual review workload.