Key result
Frequency-enhanced hybrid CNN-Transformer network outperforms baseline models in ECG classification.
Why the study?
Existing deep learning models for ECG classification rely on a single input modality, limiting their ability to effectively capture discriminative information.
A novel hybrid multimodal CNN-Transformer network treating ECG frequency spectrum as an independent modality improves ECG classification performance over existing baseline models.
May advance computational ECG classification; leaves open clinical validation before practice impact.
Recently, deep learning-based models have been widely adopted for electrocardiogram (ECG) classification tasks, demonstrating greater accuracy and efficiency than manual diagnosis. Most existing methods use raw ECG or its time-frequency domain representation as input. These methods are constrained by their reliance on a single input modality, thereby limiting the network's ability to capture discriminative information effectively. In our study, we treat the frequency spectrum of ECG as an independent modality and input it into a multimodal classification model along with ECG. Our method combines depthwise separable convolution and Transformer architectures for unimodal feature extraction. A linear layer aligns the features from both modalities, and a Transformer layer facilitates multimodal feature fusion. We evaluate the performance of our model in both the multi-label classification task using the Ningbo dataset and the multi-class classification task using the Real World dataset. Our model demonstrates superior classification performance compared to the competitive baseline models.
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Wei et al. (2024) studied Electrocardiogram (ECG) classification. Frequency-Enhanced Hybrid Multimodal CNN-Transformer Network vs. Competitive baseline models was evaluated on Classification performance. A frequency-enhanced hybrid multimodal CNN-Transformer network demonstrated superior ECG classification performance compared to competitive baseline models on the Ningbo and Real World datasets.
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