A Novel Deep Learning Approach for Automated Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection Using RNNs
摘要
Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) has lately proven to be extremely effective for analysing time-series data. This paper focuses on the automated detection of four distinct classes of ECG beats utilizing Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and Bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM). The signals are sourced from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. To enhance data quality, noise reduction is performed using Discrete Wavelet Transform and the ECG beats are segmented for labelling purposes. The models are trained from the scratch using these processed ECG beats before undergoing testing. The results indicate that model developed using Bi-LSTM units performed better when compared with models developed using modified GRU and modified LSTM. An accuracy of 98.77% using GRU model, 99.29% using LSTM model and 99.78% using Bi-LSTM model was observed.