Heart diseases constitute a global health burden, and the problem is exacerbated by the error-prone nature of listening to and interpreting heart sounds. This motivates the development of automated classification to screen for abnormal heart sounds. Existing machine learning-based systems achieve accurate classificatio…
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Framework for imputing missing heart data to simulate brain-heart interactions.
problem Lack of multi-modal patient data representing heart and brain processes.
method Probabilistic framework for joint cardiac data imputation and mechanistic model personalization.
result Accurate imputation of missing cardiac features in incomplete datasets.
Smartphones can estimate heart rate from other sensor data.
problem Gaps in heart rate data from wearable sensors.
method Regression, SVM, and random forest algorithms to estimate heart rate from smartphone data.
result Smartphone data can improve heart rate estimation from wearable sensors.
We consider the problem of locating a point-source heart arrhythmia using data from a standard diagnostic procedure, where a reference catheter is placed in the heart, and arrival times from a second diagnostic catheter are recorded as the diagnostic catheter moves around within the heart. We model this situation as a …
Improved heart rate and activity recognition with low-power wrist sensors.
problem Challenges in battery life, cost, and sensor performance in wrist-worn sensing applications.
method Used photoplethysmography (PPG) for heart rate and activity recognition, applying transfer learning and CNNs.
result Low sampling frequencies (5 Hz and 10 Hz) achieved good performance in heart rate and activity recognition.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death, and experts estimate that approximately half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as "at risk." Thus, there is an urgent need to improve the accuracy of heart disease diagnosis. To this end, we investigate the potential of using data ana…
Photoplethysmogram (PPG) is increasingly used to provide monitoring of the cardiovascular system under ambulatory conditions. Wearable devices like smartwatches use PPG to allow long term unobtrusive monitoring of heart rate in free living conditions. PPG based heart rate measurement is unfortunately highly susceptible…
Proposes a novel anomaly detection method for echocardiogram videos.
problem Anomaly detection in echocardiogram videos.
method Dynamic Variational Trajectory Models (TVAE-C, TVAE-R, TVAE-S) trained on healthy infant echocardiogram videos.
result Superior performance in detecting congenital heart defects and pulmonary hypertension.
Prediction of Physical Load Level by Machine Learning Analysis of Heart Activity after Exercisescs.LG
Machine learning predicts exercise load from heart rate data post-exercise.
problem Monitoring energy expenditure in real life.
method Machine learning methods (linear regression, etc.) applied to heart rate data.
result Random forest and k-nearest neighbors classifiers predict load levels accurately.
A Novel Approach to the Diagnosis of Heart Disease using Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networkscs.LG
AI-assisted heart disease diagnosis reduces misdiagnosis and saves lives.
problem Misdiagnosis of heart disease leads to unnecessary deaths.
method Developed an AI application using ML and DNN algorithms on a dataset from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
result DNN model achieved a 92% accuracy rate, reducing misdiagnosis.
Novel method segments heart sound signals using LSTMs with attention.
problem Heart sound segmentation for diagnostic applications.
method Bidirectional LSTMs with attention mechanisms.
result State-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.
Survival Prediction of Heart Failure Patients using Stacked Ensemble Machine Learning Algorithmcs.LG
Study predicts heart failure patient survival using stacked ensemble ML.
problem Predicting survival of heart failure patients.
method Collect and analyze patient data, apply SMOTE, use K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means clustering, Random Forest, XGBoost, Decision Tree, and propose a stacked ensemble model.
result Supervised ML algorithms outperform unsupervised models, achieving high accuracy and F1 score.
Interpretable survival analysis improves heart failure risk prediction.
problem Improving heart failure risk prediction using survival analysis.
method Survival stacking, ControlBurn, Explainable Boosting Machines.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance and provides novel insights.
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is considered as one of the principal causes of death in the world. Over recent years, this field of study has attracted researchers' attention to investigate heart sounds' patterns for disease diagnostics. In this study, an approach is proposed for normal/abnormal heart sound classificatio…
Short-segment heart sound classification using an ensemble of deep convolutional neural networkscs.SD
This paper proposes a framework based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic heart sound classification using short-segments of individual heart beats. We design a 1D-CNN that directly learns features from raw heart-sound signals, and a 2D-CNN that takes inputs of two- dimensional time-frequency fea…
A CNN-based method improves DTI of the human heart, compensating for motion.
problem Signal loss due to heart motion in DTI.
method Invertible Wavelet Scattering using CNN.
result Effective motion compensation and improved fiber structures.
Liu-type Shrinkage Estimators for Mixture of Poisson Regressions with Experts: A Heart Disease Studystat.ME
Developed shrinkage methods for Poisson regression models with experts to handle multicollinearity.
problem Multicollinearity in Poisson regression models with experts.
method Ridge and Liu-type shrinkage methods.
result Shrinkage methods offer more reliable estimates for coefficients in multicollinearity.
Study examines heart and football-shaped metrics, verifying geometric structure.
problem Analyzing reducible spherical conical metrics and their geometric properties.
method Examined 1-parameter heart shape and 3-parameter football shape families, verified structure theorem, used explicit metric and geodesic calculations.
result Naturally arise from Abelian differentials of the third kind, offer new evidence for spherical geometry and complex analytic structure interaction.
The study examines machine learning classification algorithms and their generalizability using Framingham Heart Study data.
problem Addressing biases and generalizability issues in machine learning classification algorithms.
method Comparison of eight machine learning classification algorithms on Framingham Heart Study data.
result Double discriminant scoring of type I is the most generalizable algorithm.
Deep learning speeds up whole heart MRI to 30 seconds.
problem Long acquisition times in whole heart MRI.
method Deep learning, specifically a 3D residual U-Net, to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution data.
result Super-resolution images show better edge sharpness and fewer artefacts than low-resolution images.
Machine learning improves CHD screening accuracy from 70% to 87.7%.
problem Predicting coronary heart disease using echocardiography and clinical features.
method Ensemble machine learning approach with model stacking and two-step stacking.
result Improved CHD classification accuracy from 70% to 87.7%.
Researchers use VAEs to create understandable heart beat representations.
problem Lack of explainable models for ECG beat classification.
method Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) with linear dense networks.
result Interpretable ECG beat space generated.
Improved robustness of 1D CNNs for heart arrhythmia classification.
problem Improving the robustness of 1D CNNs for classification tasks.
method Parameterization using Cayley transform and controllability Gramian for Lipschitz-bounded CNNs.
result Improved robustness of trained Lipschitz-bounded 1D CNNs for heart arrhythmia classification.
Causal Analysis of the TOPCAT Trial: Spironolactone for Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failurestat.ML
Causal analysis reveals regional discrepancies in TOPCAT trial results.
problem Inconclusive results in TOPCAT trial for heart failure treatment.
method Causal discovery methods with domain knowledge integration.
result Significant causal effects shown for some subgroups globally.
New scalable method balances hospital profit status and heart attack outcomes.
problem Balancing covariate distributions and minimizing weight dispersion in large datasets.
method Combines kernel basis expansion and convex optimization for efficient and flexible weighting.
result For-profit hospitals use interventional cardiology similarly to other hospitals but have higher mortality and readmission rates.
The reactions of the human body to physical exercise, psychophysiological stress and heart diseases are reflected in heart rate variability (HRV). Thus, continuous monitoring of HRV can contribute to determining and predicting issues in well-being and mental health. HRV can be measured in everyday life by consumer wear…
Sleep-wake classification via quantifying heart rate variability by convolutional neural networkstat.AP
Fluctuations in heart rate are intimately tied to changes in the physiological state of the organism. We examine and exploit this relationship by classifying a human subject's wake/sleep status using his instantaneous heart rate (IHR) series. We use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to build features from the IHR se…
An electrocardiogram (EKG) is a common, non-invasive test that measures the electrical activity of a patient's heart. EKGs contain useful diagnostic information about patient health that may be absent from other electronic health record (EHR) data. As multi-dimensional waveforms, they could be modeled using generic mac…
Study identifies mental stress in firefighters using heart rate variability data.
problem Unsupervised identification of mental stress in firefighters from heart rate variability data.
method Exploration and comparison of three unsupervised methods: K-Means, convolutional autoencoders, and LSTM autoencoders.
result Convolutional and LSTM autoencoders successfully stratify stressed versus normal samples using HRV markers.
AI detects heart disease from ECGs with improved interpretability and performance.
problem Undiagnosed structural heart disease due to high cost and accessibility of echocardiography.
method Generalized additive model integrating clinically meaningful ECG predictors.
result Improved AUROC, AUPRC, and F1 score compared to deep-learning baselines.
Deep learning predicts heart failure readmission from clinical notes.
problem Predicting and preventing heart failure readmission.
method Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained on clinical notes.
result Deep learning models outperform traditional machine learning methods in readmission prediction.
Cardiotoxicity related to cancer therapies has become a serious issue, diminishing cancer treatment outcomes and quality of life. Early detection of cancer patients at risk for cardiotoxicity before cardiotoxic treatments and providing preventive measures are potential solutions to improve cancer patients's quality of …
Method synthesizes 4D CMR images from XCAT model using GAN and SPADE.
problem Synthesizing realistic 4D CMR images with annotations and adaptable styles.
method Hybrid GAN approach with XCAT anatomical ground truth and SPADE for semantic preservation.
result Synthesized images with modality-specific features learned from real CMR data.
This paper aims to classify a single PCG recording as normal or abnormal for computer-aided diagnosis. The proposed framework for this challenge has four steps: preprocessing, feature extraction, training and validation. In the preprocessing step, a recording is segmented into four states, i.e., the first heart sound, …
Causal Explainability of Machine Learning in Heart Failure Prediction from Electronic Health Recordsstat.ML
The paper investigates causal relationships in heart failure prediction using machine learning.
problem Understanding the causal relationships between clinical variables and heart failure.
method Proposes a new computational framework for causal structure discovery (CSD) of mixed-type clinical variables for binary disease outcomes.
result Feature importance from nonlinear classifiers strongly correlates with causal strength of variables, but not differentiating cause and effect.
ECGDetect uses deep learning to detect ischemia in heart ECGs.
problem Detecting early signs of acute coronary syndrome in patients.
method Developed a deep learning model using the LTST database.
result Deep neural network achieved 90.31% ROC-AUC, 89.34% sensitivity, 87.81% specificity.
The study uses transfer learning to compare surgical outcomes across racial/ethnic subgroups.
problem Difficulty in comparing surgical outcomes due to racial/ethnic and geographic differences.
method Causal inference framework and transfer learning to incorporate data from multiple populations.
result Racial and ethnic differences in surgical outcomes are found, with non-Hispanic Black patients experiencing wide variability.
Non-invasive detection of cardiovascular disorders from radiology scans requires quantitative image analysis of the heart and its substructures. There are well-established measurements that radiologists use for diseases assessment such as ejection fraction, volume of four chambers, and myocardium mass. These measuremen…
Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis; Ranking the Significant Features Using Random Trees Modelphysics.med-ph
Study improves CAD diagnosis accuracy by selecting significant features.
problem Improving accuracy of CAD diagnosis through feature selection.
method Integrated machine learning approach using random trees (RTs), C5.0, SVM, and CHAID.
result Random trees model outperforms other models in CAD diagnosis.
Improving the efficacy of Deep Learning models for Heart Beat detection on heterogeneous datasetsstat.ML
Study shows DL models trained on healthy subjects perform worse on patients' ECG data.
problem Inefficiency of DL models on heterogeneous datasets for heart beat detection.
method Investigated and evaluated the use of Transfer Learning to adapt DL models to different datasets.
result Transfer Learning improves classification performance on small sample size datasets.
Automatic heart sound abnormality detection can play a vital role in the early diagnosis of heart diseases, particularly in low-resource settings. The state-of-the-art algorithms for this task utilize a set of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) band-pass filters as a front-end followed by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN…
Heart rate estimation from electrocardiogram signals is very important for the early detection of cardiovascular diseases. However, due to large individual differences and varying electrocardiogram signal quality, there does not exist a single reliable estimation algorithm that works well on all subjects. Every algorit…
A multiple instance dictionary learning approach, Dictionary Learning using Functions of Multiple Instances (DL-FUMI), is used to perform beat-to-beat heart rate estimation and to characterize heartbeat signatures from ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals collected with a hydraulic bed sensor. DL-FUMI estimates a "heartbea…
We developed a new approach for the analysis of physiological time series. An iterative convolution filter is used to decompose the time series into various components. Statistics of these components are extracted as features to characterize the mechanisms underlying the time series. Motivated by the studies that show …
Discriminative neural networks address class imbalance in coronary heart disease risk analysis.
problem Class imbalance in medical test data, especially in binary classification problems.
method Use of discriminative neural networks and contrastive loss with a Siamese network structure.
result The method effectively handles class imbalance, improving predictive models for coronary heart disease risk.
Framework uses human annotations to make models robust to spurious correlations.
problem Machine learning models fail when unmeasured variables change test distributions.
method Human annotations to augment training examples, UV-DRO objective for robustness.
result Improvements of 5-10% on digit recognition task and 1.5-5% on NYPD Police Stops analysis.
JigSaw discovers high-order interactions from random forests.
problem Identifying complex interactions in biological data.
method Random forest structure analysis to find high-order interactions.
result JigSaw can explain outcomes in heart disease and breast cancer.
Deep learning models trained on adult cardiac MRI data struggle to accurately segment rare congenital heart diseases.
problem Accuracy of U-Net-based segmentation models trained on adult cardiac MRI data when applied to rare congenital heart diseases like Tetralogy of Fallot.
method Cross-validation with four-fold, evaluation on unseen data from different pathologies.
result Deep learning models overfit to the training data, leading to significant accuracy drops when applied to other pathologies.