Deep learning based ECG segmentation for delineation of diverse arrhythmias

Author:

Joung Chankyu,Kim MijinORCID,Paik Taejin,Kong Seong-Ho,Oh Seung-Young,Jeon Won Kyeong,Jeon Jae-hu,Hong Joong-Sik,Kim Wan-Joong,Kook Woong,Cha Myung-Jin,van Koert OttoORCID

Abstract

Accurate delineation of key waveforms in an ECG is a critical step in extracting relevant features to support the diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions. Although deep learning based methods using segmentation models to locate P, QRS, and T waves have shown promising results, their ability to handle arrhythmias has not been studied in any detail. In this paper we investigate the effect of arrhythmias on delineation quality and develop strategies to improve performance in such cases. We introduce a U-Net-like segmentation model for ECG delineation with a particular focus on diverse arrhythmias. This is followed by a post-processing algorithm which removes noise and automatically determines the boundaries of P, QRS, and T waves. Our model has been trained on a diverse dataset and evaluated against the LUDB and QTDB datasets to show strong performance, with F1-scores exceeding 99% for QRS and T waves, and over 97% for P waves in the LUDB dataset. Furthermore, we assess various models across a wide array of arrhythmias and observe that models with a strong performance on standard benchmarks may still perform poorly on arrhythmias that are underrepresented in these benchmarks, such as tachycardias. We propose solutions to address this discrepancy.

Funder

National Research Foundation

Ministry of Education, Science and Technology

Ministry of Health and Welfare

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

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