Key result
Expert-informed memory classifiers improve robustness against physiological noise by ~3% vs data augmentation models.
Why the study?
Deep neural networks for ECG classification underperform when subjected to small physiological perturbations that would not challenge physicians, hindering wide-scale adoption.
Do memory classifiers improve the robustness of deep learning models for ECG classification against physiological noise compared to data augmentation techniques?
Do memory classifiers improve the robustness of deep learning models for ECG classification against physiological noise compared to data augmentation techniques?
Memory classifiers using expert-informed features improve the robustness of deep learning models for ECG classification against physiological noise.
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May bolster ECG model robustness to noise; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective clinical validation before adoption.
The development of sophisticated machine learning algorithms has made it possible to detect critical health conditions like cardiac arrhythmia, directly from electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings. Large-scale machine learning models, like deep neural networks, are well known to underperform when subjected to small perturbations which would not pose a challenge to physicians. This is a hurdle that needs to be removed to facilitate wide-scale adoption. We find this to be true even for models trained using data-augmentation schemes.In this paper, we show that using memory classifiers it is possible to attain a boost in robustness using expert-informed features. Memory classifiers combine standard deep neural network training with a domain knowledge-guided similarity metric to boost the robustness of classifiers. We evaluate the performance of the models against naturally occurring physiological perturbations, specifically electrode movement, muscle artifact, and baseline wander noise. Our approach demonstrates improved robustness across all evaluated noises for an average improvement in F1 score of 3.13% compared to models using data augmentation techniques.Clinical relevance- This approach improves the robustness of deep learning methods in safety-critical medical applications.
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Jang et al. (2023) studied Cardiac arrhythmia. Memory classifiers with expert-informed features vs. Models using data augmentation techniques was evaluated on Robustness against physiological perturbations (electrode movement, muscle artifact, baseline wander noise) measured by F1 score (average improvement of 3.13%). Memory classifiers using expert-informed features improved robustness against physiological noises, achieving an average F1 score improvement of 3.13% compared to data augmentation models.
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