Key result
A random forest classifier using a novel CNN-derived segment label achieved an overall accuracy of 0.96 and an F1-score of 0.74 for supra-ventricular ectopic beats on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia dataset.
Why the study?
Physicians need to examine abnormal heartbeats closely for precise cardiac diagnosis, requiring more accurate heartbeat classification algorithms to assist in identifying specific heartbeat types.
Does a random forest classifier with a novel segment label feature improve heartbeat classification accuracy on ECGs?
Does a random forest classifier with a novel segment label feature improve heartbeat classification accuracy on ECGs?
A novel segment label feature improves the performance of a random forest classifier for identifying specific heartbeat types, particularly SVEB, on ECGs.
May aid automated ECG arrhythmia detection in research; leaves open prospective clinical validation before practice adoption.
OBJECTIVE: Physicians use electrocardiograms (ECG) to diagnose cardiac abnormalities. Sometimes they need to take a deeper look at abnormal heartbeats to diagnose the patients more precisely. The objective of this research is to design a more accurate heartbeat classification algorithm to assist physicians in identifying specific types of the heartbeat. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: In this paper, we propose a novel feature called a segment label, to improve the performance of a heartbeat classifier. This feature, provided by a Convolutional Neural Network, encodes the information surrounding the particular heartbeat. The random forest classifier is trained based on this new feature and other traditional features to classify the heartbeats. RESULTS: We validate our method on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia dataset following the inter-patient evaluation paradigm. The proposed method is competitive with other similar works. It achieves an accuracy of 0.96, and F1-scores for normal beats, ventricular ectopic beats, and Supra-Ventricular Ectopic Beats (SVEB) of 0.98, 0.93, and 0.74, respectively. The precision and sensitivity for SVEB are 0.76 and 0.78, which outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. CONCLUSION: Using a medical devices embedding our algorithm could ease the physicians' processes of diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, especially for SVEB, in clinical implementation.
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Zou et al. (2022) studied Cardiac abnormalities / Arrhythmia. Random forest classifier with a CNN-derived segment label feature vs. State-of-the-art methods was evaluated on Classification accuracy and F1-scores. A random forest classifier using a novel CNN-derived segment label achieved an overall accuracy of 0.96 and an F1-score of 0.74 for supra-ventricular ectopic beats on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia dataset.
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