LLT-ECG classifies ECG signals without backpropagation using linear laws.
problem ECG signal classification efficiency and verifiability.
method Forward linear law identification for ECG signal features.
result State-of-the-art performance on real-world ECG datasets.
In this paper, a Wide Learning architecture is proposed that attempts to automate the feature engineering portion of the machine learning (ML) pipeline. Feature engineering is widely considered as the most time consuming and expert knowledge demanding portion of any ML task. The proposed feature recommendation approach…
Study improves healthcare time series imputation by considering structured missingness.
problem Structured missingness in clinical data impacts time series imputation models.
method Analysis of different masking strategies on imputation methods using PhysioNet Challenge 2012 dataset.
result Masking choices significantly affect imputation accuracy and clinical prediction.
SleepNet detects sleep disorders using neural networks trained on PSG data.
problem Automated detection of sleep disorders like apnea and hypopnea.
method Dense Convolutional Neural Network (DRCNN) trained on Polysomnography (PSG) data.
result SleepNet achieved the first place in a sleep arousal detection challenge.
Study uses CNNs to detect sleep arousals more accurately.
problem Accurate detection of sleep arousals for better sleep quality assessment.
method Investigated five 1D CNN models on EEG signals from PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2018.
result Best 1D CNN model achieved high precision and recall metrics.
Paper uses ensemblers to predict sepsis early from patient records.
problem Early detection of sepsis in patients.
method Imputation and weak ensembler technique applied to 40k patient records.
result Model achieved 93.45% accuracy and 0.271 utility score.
Study develops algorithm to detect subtle respiratory events from PSG recordings.
problem Detecting non-apneic and non-hypopneic arousals in polysomnography recordings.
method Bidirectional LSTM classifier with 465 multi-domain features.
result 0.50 AUPRC on hidden test dataset, tied for second-best score in 2018 PhysioNet challenge.
ECG-DelNet uses neural networks to accurately delineate ECGs, even with low-quality data.
problem Lack of model explainability and small databases limit deep learning applicability in ECG detection.
method Adapted U-Net architecture for 1D data, used PhysioNet's QT database, applied data augmentation and regularization techniques.
result Best configuration achieved high precision and recall for P, QRS, and T waves.
This paper interprets neural network ECG models by breaking them into understandable components.
problem Lack of model interpretability in deep learning for medical applications.
method Factorizes neural network models into interpretable black box components using hierarchical equations.
result Demonstrates interpretable component models for ECG waveforms, improving model understanding and predictability.
Modeling physiological time-series in ICU is of high clinical importance. However, data collected within ICU are irregular in time and often contain missing measurements. Since absence of a measure would signify its lack of importance, the missingness is indeed informative and might reflect the decision making by the c…
Paper presents DL models for ECG signal denoising.
problem Efficient denoising of ECG signals for wearable devices.
method CNNs, LSTM, RBM, filtering methods, wavelet-based technique.
result CNN model performs well for offline denoising.
Sleep disorders are implicated in a growing number of health problems. In this paper, we present a signal-processing/machine learning approach to detecting arousals in the multi-channel polysomnographic recordings of the Physionet/CinC Challenge2018 dataset. Methods: Our network architecture consists of two components.…
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…
Unified Bayesian framework for missing data imputation and prediction in clinical time series.
problem High prevalence of missing values in clinical time series data.
method Unified Bayesian recurrent framework for imputation and prediction.
result Strong performance gains over state-of-the-art methods on mortality prediction tasks.
Computational analysis on physiological signals would provide immense impact for enabling automated clinical analytics. However, the class imbalance issue where negative or minority class instances are rare in number impairs the robustness of the practical solution. The key idea of our approach is intelligent augmentat…
Processing temporal sequences is central to a variety of applications in health care, and in particular multi-channel Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a highly prevalent diagnostic modality that relies on robust sequence modeling. While Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have led to significant advances in automated diagnosis …
A new method classifies heart sounds using i-vectors and machine learning.
problem Heart sound classification for disease diagnostics.
method Extract i-vectors from MFCC features, apply PCA and VAE for dimensionality reduction, then use GMMs and SVM for classification.
result The method improves heart sound classification by 16% on the Physionet dataset.
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…
In this article, we propose a novel ECG classification framework for atrial fibrillation (AF) detection using spectro-temporal representation (i.e., time varying spectrum) and deep convolutional networks. In the first step we use a Bayesian spectro-temporal representation based on the estimation of time-varying coeffic…
APC overcomes missing data and class imbalance in time series data.
problem Missing data and class imbalance in time series data.
method Self-supervised learning with Autoregressive Predictive Coding (APC).
result APC improves classification performance on real-world medical datasets.
Deep neural net improves sleep stage classification from raw EEG.
problem Improving accuracy of sleep stage classification from raw EEG data.
method 34-layer deep residual ConvNet architecture trained on raw single channel EEG data.
result Proposed network outperforms state-of-the-art methods in sleep staging accuracy.
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…
Study improves mortality prediction in ICU patients using feature engineering and 1D CNN.
problem Improving mortality prediction in ICU patients with high-dimensional, imbalanced, and missing data.
method Feature engineering, 1D Convolutional Neural Network (1D CNN), traditional machine learning algorithms.
result Best AUC of 0.848 achieved with 1D CNN model.
Multivariate time series data in practical applications, such as health care, geoscience, and biology, are characterized by a variety of missing values. In time series prediction and other related tasks, it has been noted that missing values and their missing patterns are often correlated with the target labels, a.k.a.…
Study combines CNNs and LSTMs for ECG classification, improving performance with attention mechanisms.
problem Improving ECG classification accuracy for weakly supervised tasks.
method Investigates ConvLSTM networks and various attention mechanisms to capture both morphological and temporal features.
result Attention mechanisms improve classification performance and provide interpretable saliency maps.
Predict sepsis early from EHR data with aggregated clinical events.
problem Predict sepsis from clinical data in EHR with temporal interactions.
method Aggregates heterogeneous clinical events, captures temporal interactions with LSTM.
result Achieved high utility score (0.321) in PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2019.
SANs use sparse activation functions to compress data representations.
problem Learning meaningful features without considering compression.
method Introduce φ metric, define activation functions, and present SANs.
result SANs achieve small description length and interpretable kernels.
Causal Imitation Learning handles noisy measurements and distribution shifts.
problem Learning from noisy state observations and distributional shifts.
method Causal inference framework and adversarial RKHS learning.
result Improved robustness to distribution shifts compared to standard methods.
Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart rhythm disorder associated with deadly and debilitating consequences including heart failure, stroke, poor mental health, reduced quality of life and death. Having an automatic system that diagnoses various types of cardiac arrhythmias would assist cardiologists to…
SANs use sparse activation functions to minimize model complexity.
problem Model complexity in unsupervised learning.
method Introduce φ metric, define activation functions, present Sparsely Activated Networks (SANs).
result SANs with selected activation functions have small description length and interpretable kernels.
The development of new technology such as wearables that record high-quality single channel ECG, provides an opportunity for ECG screening in a larger population, especially for atrial fibrillation screening. The main goal of this study is to develop an automatic classification algorithm for normal sinus rhythm (NSR), …
tBayes-MICE uses Bayesian MICE for time series data imputation.
problem Missing data in time series data.
method Bayesian MICE with MCMC, temporal features, and different samplers.
result tBayes-MICE reduces imputation errors and accounts for uncertainty.
A model combines GRU-D for missing data and Neural ODEs for time series continuity.
problem Challenges of informative missingness in multivariate time series data.
method Combines GRU-D for missing data imputation and Neural ODEs for temporal continuity.
result Demonstrates improved performance on a time series classification task.
A bridge between continuous signals and discrete Ising spins for associative memory.
problem Associative memory in continuous-signal-driven Ising spin systems.
method Multilayer Ising framework with PCA whitening and SimHash projection, coupled to pseudo-inverse memory couplings.
result Finite-size scaling of operational storage capacity with αc(N)=αc(∞)−cN−1/2, approaching αc(∞)≈0.50. Proposes a novel imputation network for clinical time series data.
problem Missing value imputation in clinical time series data with sparsity, irregularity, and high-dimensionality.
method Variational-recurrent imputation network that considers correlated features, temporal dynamics, and uncertainty.
result The proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art methods on real-world EHR datasets.
Portable, Wearable and Wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) Systems have the potential to be used as point-of-care for cardiovascular disease diagnostic systems. Such wearable and wireless ECG systems require automatic detection of cardiovascular disease. Even in the primary care, automation of ECG diagnostic systems will …
Study evaluates cross-validation methods for clinical ECG classification, finding leave-source-out more reliable.
problem Overoptimistic cross-validation estimates for new patient sources.
method Empirical evaluation of K-fold and leave-source-out cross-validation methods.
result Leave-source-out cross-validation provides more reliable performance estimates.
Paper tackles ICU false alarms by learning features from ECG signals.
problem High rate of false alarms in ICU due to patient movements and sensor detachment.
method Unsupervised feature learning to extract and cluster high-level features from ECG signals.
result The method reduces false arrhythmia alarms using a few high-level features from a single ECG lead.
New method creates indistinguishable but misclassified ECG signals.
problem Adversarial examples fool deep neural networks in ECG classification.
method Developed a technique to generate smoothed adversarial examples for single-lead ECG.
result Adversarial examples are not unique and can be collated and perturbed.
Recurrent neural networks' hidden state can be reconstructed from its past, providing a theoretical framework for stability and tracking.
problem Hidden-state stability in RNNs
method Backward coherence analysis
result Almost-sure convergence, rates under mixing, interpretable limiting representation, finite pathwise stopping times, and theoretical framework for time-uniform confidence sequences.
System detects and predicts cardiac anomalies from ECG data.
problem Early detection of cardiac anomalies to reduce healthcare costs and mortality.
method Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Undecimated Wavelet Transform (UWT) for feature extraction; Bayesian Network Classifier for anomaly prediction.
result Average accuracy of 96.6% for PAC, 92.8% for MI, and 87% for PVC on real ECG datasets.
A new model predicts in-hospital mortality from EHR data, handling missing values with uncertainty.
problem Handling missing values in non-stationary, noisy EHR data for accurate mortality prediction.
method Uncertainty-Gated Stochastic Sequential Model using variational recurrent networks.
result The model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting in-hospital mortality.