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- Title
Supervised SVM Transfer Learning for Modality-Specific Artefact Detection in ECG.
- Authors
Moeyersons, Jonathan; Morales, John; Villa, Amalia; Castro, Ivan; Testelmans, Dries; Buyse, Bertien; Van Hoof, Chris; Willems, Rik; Van Huffel, Sabine; Varon, Carolina
- Abstract
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important diagnostic tool for identifying cardiac problems. Nowadays, new ways to record ECG signals outside of the hospital are being investigated. A promising technique is capacitively coupled ECG (ccECG), which allows ECG signals to be recorded through insulating materials. However, as the ECG is no longer recorded in a controlled environment, this inevitably implies the presence of more artefacts. Artefact detection algorithms are used to detect and remove these. Typically, the training of a new algorithm requires a lot of ground truth data, which is costly to obtain. As many labelled contact ECG datasets exist, we could avoid the use of labelling new ccECG signals by making use of previous knowledge. Transfer learning can be used for this purpose. Here, we applied transfer learning to optimise the performance of an artefact detection model, trained on contact ECG, towards ccECG. We used ECG recordings from three different datasets, recorded with three recording devices. We showed that the accuracy of a contact-ECG classifier improved between 5 and 8% by means of transfer learning when tested on a ccECG dataset. Furthermore, we showed that only 20 segments of the ccECG dataset are sufficient to significantly increase the accuracy.
- Subjects
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INSULATING materials
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2021, Vol 21, Issue 2, p662
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s21020662