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SCovNet: A skip connection-based feature union deep learning technique with statistical approach analysis for the detection of COVID-19

Patro Kiran Kumar, Allam Jaya Prakash, Hammad Mohamed, Tadeusiewicz Ryszard, Pławiak Paweł

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2023

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Vol. 43, no. 1

352--368

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Background and Objective: The global population has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus. Infections are spreading quickly around the world, and new spikes (Delta, Delta Plus, and Omicron) are still being made. The real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is the method most often used to find viral RNA in a nasopharyngeal swab. However, these diagnostic approaches require human involvement and consume more time per prediction. Moreover, the existing conventional test mainly suffers from false negatives, so there is a chance for the virus to spread quickly. Therefore, a rapid and early diagnosis of COVID-19 patients is needed to overcome these problems. Methods: Existing approaches based on deep learning for COVID detection are suffering from unbalanced datasets, poor performance, and gradient vanishing problems. A customized skip connection-based network with a feature union approach has been developed in this work to overcome some of the issues mentioned above. Gradient information from chest X-ray (CXR) images to subsequent layers is bypassed through skip connections. In the script’s title, ‘‘SCovNet” refers to a skip-connection-based feature union network for detecting COVID-19 in a short notation. The performance of the proposed model was tested with two publicly available CXR image databases, including balanced and unbalanced datasets. Results: A modified skip connection-based CNN model was suggested for a small unbalanced dataset (Kaggle) and achieved remarkable performance. In addition, the proposed model was also tested with a large GitHub database of CXR images and obtained an overall best accuracy of 98.67% with an impressive low false-negative rate of 0.0074. Conclusions: The results of the experiments show that the proposed method works better than current methods at finding early signs of COVID-19. As an additional point of interest, we must mention the innovative hierarchical classification strategy provided for this work, which considered both balanced and unbalanced datasets to get the best COVID-19 identification rate.

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A deformable CNN architecture for predicting clinical acceptability of ECG signal

Allam Jaya Prakash, Samantray Saunak, Sahoo Suraj Prakash, Ari Samit

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2023

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Vol. 43, no. 1

335--351

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The degraded quality of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is the main source of false alarms in critical care units. Therefore, a preliminary analysis of the ECG signal is required to decide its clinical acceptability. In conventional techniques, different handcrafted features are extracted from the ECG signal based on signal quality indices (SQIs) to predict clinical acceptability. A one-dimensional deformable convolutional neural network (1DDCNN) is proposed in this work to extract features automatically, without manual interference, to detect the clinical acceptability of ECG signals efficiently. In order to create DCNN, the deformable convolution and pooling layers are merged into the regular convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture. In DCNN, the equidistant sampling locations of a regular CNN are replaced with adaptive sampling locations, which improves the network’s ability to learn based on the input. Deformable convolution layers concentrate more on significant segments of the ECG signals rather than giving equal attention to all segments. The proposed method is able to detect acceptable and unacceptable ECG signals with an accuracy of 99.50%, recall of 99.78%, specificity of 99.60%, precision of 99.47%, and F-score of 0.999. Experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than earlier state-of-the-art techniques.

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SpEC: A system for patient specific ECG beat classification using deep residual network

Allam Jaya Prakash, Samantray Saunak, Ari Samit

Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering

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2020

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Vol. 40, no. 4

1446--1457

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a non-invasive technique used to detect various cardiac disorders. One of the major causes of cardiac arrest is an arrhythmia. Furthermore, ECG beat classification is essential to detect life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. The major limitations of the traditional ECG beat classification systems are the requirement of an extensive training dataset to train the model and inconsistent performance for the detection of ventricular and supraventricular ectopic (V and S) beats. To overcome these limitations, a system denoted as SpEC is proposed in this work based on Stockwell transform (ST) and two-dimensional residual network (2D-ResNet) for improvement of ECG beat classification technique with a limited amount of training data. ST, which is used to represent the ECG signal into a time-frequency domain, provides frequency invariant amplitude response and dynamic resolution. The resultant ST images are applied as input to the proposed 2D-ResNet to classify five different types of ECG beats in a patient-specific way as recommended by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). The proposed SpEC system achieved an overall accuracy (Acc) of 99.73%, sensitivity (Sen) = 98.84%, Specificity (Spe) = 99.50%, Positive predictivity (Ppr) = 98.20% on MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, and shows an overall Acc of 89.87% on real-time acquired ECG dataset with classification time of single ECG beat image = 0.2365 (s) in detecting of five arrhythmia classes. The proposed method shows better performance on both the database compared to the earlier reported state-of-art techniques.