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Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Accurate heart disease diagnosis via electrocardiogram (ECG) is hindered by noise and signal complexity.
  • Existing methods often struggle with overlapping signals and require manual intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a deep learning (DL) framework for improved ECG analysis and heart disease diagnosis.
  • To introduce an innovative ECG signal segmentation technique for enhanced feature extraction.

Main Methods:

  • A novel ECG segmentation algorithm integrating adaptive preprocessing, histogram-based lead separation, and point-tracking.
  • Application of transfer learning with DL models (VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, InceptionNetV2, GoogleNet) for classification.
  • Utilized a dataset of 12-lead ECG images across four primary classes.

Main Results:

  • ECG segmentation significantly improved DL model performance (recall, precision, F1 score).
  • A hybrid VGG19 + SVM model achieved 98.01% multi-class and up to 100% binary classification accuracy.
  • Reconstructed ECG signals demonstrated superior performance with deep learning models.

Conclusions:

  • ECG segmentation is a critical preprocessing step for enhancing DL-based automated heart disease diagnosis.
  • Deep, feature-rich models excel with reconstructed ECG signals, offering more reliable diagnostic solutions.
  • The proposed framework provides a more accurate and dependable approach to identifying cardiac conditions.