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Electrocardiogram

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An electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a critical diagnostic tool that records the electrical signals produced by the heart during each heartbeat. This recording is achieved through electrodes placed strategically on the arms, legs, and chest. The electrocardiograph amplifies these signals and produces 12 distinct tracings, offering a comprehensive understanding of the heart's electrical activity.
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Rot-IIR-SSM: Provably Stable and Pole-Interpretable IIR State-Space Model for Streaming ECG Myocardial Infarction

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We developed Rot-IIR-SSM, a novel state-space model for ECG analysis that offers stability, interpretability, and efficient streaming inference. This model achieves high accuracy in detecting myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation, making it suitable for clinical use.

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Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Signal Processing
Machine Learning

Background:

Modern state-space models (SSMs) for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis often struggle to provide simultaneous stability guarantees, spectral interpretability, and hardware-efficient streaming inference.
Existing models may lack robust performance across diverse clinical applications and resource-constrained environments.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Rot-IIR-SSM, a rotational IIR state-space model designed to overcome the limitations of current ECG analysis models.
To ensure stability, spectral interpretability, and efficient streaming inference for advanced ECG diagnostics.

Main Methods:

Developed Rot-IIR-SSM, parameterizing each channel with a stable second-order complex pole pair (ρ,θ) using bounded polar reparameterization for guaranteed BIBO stability.
Employed an FFT-based realization for O(T logT) parallel training with explicit pole domain interpretability.
Implemented learned parameters as biquad-filter recursions for O(1) streaming inference with minimal state memory (≈25KB).

Main Results:

Achieved the highest external F1 score (0.8306) for 12-lead ECG myocardial infarction detection on the PTB-DB dataset without post-processing.
Demonstrated competitive internal F1 (0.8360) and near-equivalent AUROC (0.9251) compared to CNNs.
Showcased applicability to atrial fibrillation detection with an F1 score of 0.8939.
Identified the 10-20Hz frequency band (QRS morphology) as the dominant driver for ECG analysis, with negligible contribution from frequencies above 40Hz.

Conclusions:

Rot-IIR-SSM uniquely combines pole-domain interpretability, provable BIBO stability, and O(1) streaming inference, surpassing evaluated baselines.
The model's characteristics are advantageous for resource-constrained clinical ECG deployment settings requiring high interpretability and reliability.