A proposed deep learning model for multichannel ECG noise reduction

Abstract

Heart disease is a critical concern of healthcare for everyone in today’s era. An effective and noninvasive indication of heart disease is an electrocardiogram (ECG). Understanding regular ECG signal patterns and comparisons with irregular, patterns may help to identify the serious nature of heart diseases such as arrhythmia. Comparison of ECG signal patterns is very difficult manually, and machine-based interpretation is a demand of society. Errors in ECG interpretation might result from noise contamination of ECG signals. ECG pretreatment from noise is therefore needed for precise analysis. This article proposed a novel deep learning-based solution for multichannel ECG noise reduction, through utilizing the capabilities of fully convolutional neural network along with the Jacobin regularization to ensure confining and preserving local information. Cascaded layered approach was framed in encoder and decoder sections of model where denoising and reconstruction process worked and compared on standard performance parameters with recent denoising deep autoencoders. This proposed work FCN-DAE with Jacobin regularization uses the noise stress test database (NSTDB) for the noise signal of ECG data sourced from the PhysioNet repository. The proposed model achieves 4.763 * 10–2 mv2 for signal space diversity (SSD), 0.288 mv for the median absolute deviation and 1.859 for the root mean square error (RMSE) in the conducted experiment. The experimental findings demonstrate that complex noise from the ECG signal may be removed up to 97.02%.