To solve the problem of real-time arrhythmia classification, this paper proposes a real-time arrhythmia classification algorithm using deep learning with low latency, high practicality, and high reliability, which can be easily applied to a real-time arrhythmia classification system. In the algorithm, a classifier detects the QRS complex position in real time for heartbeat segmentation. Then, the ECG_RRR feature is constructed according to the heartbeat segmentation result. Finally, another classifier classifies the arrhythmia in real time using the ECG_RRR feature. This article uses the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and divides the 44 qualified records into two groups (DS1 and DS2) for training and evaluation, respectively. The result shows that the recall rate, precision rate, and overall accuracy of the algorithm’s interpatient QRS complex position prediction are 98.0%, 99.5%, and 97.6%, respectively. The overall accuracy for 5-class and 13-class interpatient arrhythmia classification is 91.5% and 75.6%, respectively. Furthermore, the real-time arrhythmia classification algorithm proposed in this paper has the advantages of practicability and low latency. It is easy to deploy the algorithm since the input is the original ECG signal with no feature processing required. And, the latency of the arrhythmia classification is only the duration of one heartbeat cycle.
23 November 2021 in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Emotion recognition has become increasingly prominent in the medical field and human-computer interaction. When people’s emotions change under external stimuli, various physiological signals of the human body will fluctuate. Electroencephalography (EEG) is closely related to brain activity, making it possible to judge the subject’s emotional changes through EEG signals. Meanwhile, machine learning algorithms, which are good at digging out data features from a statistical perspective and making judgments, have developed by leaps and bounds. Therefore, using machine learning to extract feature vectors related to emotional states from EEG signals and constructing a classifier to separate emotions into discrete states to realize emotion recognition has a broad development prospect. This paper introduces the acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, and classification of EEG signals in sequence following the progress of EEG-based machine learning algorithms for emotion recognition. And it may help beginners who will use EEG-based machine learning algorithms for emotion recognition to understand the development status of this field. The journals we selected are all retrieved from the Web of Science retrieval platform. And the publication dates of most of the selected articles are concentrated in 2016–2021.
13 November 2023 in Journal of Neuroscience Methods
In this paper, we propose a novel color-texture image segmentation method based on local histograms. Starting with clustering-based color quantization, we extract a sufficient number of representative colors. For each pixel, through counting the number of pixels with each representative color within a circular neighborhood, a local histogram is obtained. After the circular neighborhood is extended to several scales, a local histogram with an appropriate scale is adopted as a color-texture descriptor at the corresponding pixel for image segmentation. Further, we correct the color-texture features near boundaries and obtain a initial segmentation by a clustering method with the color-texture descriptors. Finally, in order to obtain a better segmentation result, we merge the over segmented regions guided by the obtained boundaries. Experiments are performed on both synthetic and natural color-texture images, and the results show that our proposed method performs much better compared with state-of-the-art methods on image segmentation, particularly in textured areas.