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ArticleIEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics2024

DeScoD-ECG: Deep Score-Based Diffusion Model for ECG Baseline Wander and Noise Removal.

Huayu Li, Gregory Ditzler, Janet Roveda, Ao Li

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Article in IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Huayu Li
Gregory Ditzler
Janet Roveda
Ao Li

Funding

Explainable Deep Learning Approach for Automatic Arousal and Sleep Stages Scoring, and Knowledge DiscoveryR21HL159661 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI LI, AO · 2021 to 2022
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NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL159661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveElectrocardiogram (ECG) signals commonly suffer noise interference, such as baseline wander. High-quality and high-fidelity reconstruction of the ECG signals is of great significance to diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel ECG baseline wander and noise removal technology.

methodsWe extended the diffusion model in a conditional manner that was specific to the ECG signals, namely the Deep Score-Based Diffusion model for Electrocardiogram baseline wander and noise removal (DeScoD-ECG). Moreover, we deployed a multi-shots averaging strategy that improved signal reconstructions. We conducted the experiments on the QT Database and the MIT-BIH Noise Stress Test Database to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. Baseline methods are adopted for comparison, including traditional digital filter-based and deep learning-based methods.

resultsThe quantities evaluation results show that the proposed method obtained outstanding performance on four distance-based similarity metrics with at least 20% overall improvement compared with the best baseline method.

conclusionThis paper demonstrates the state-of-the-art performance of the DeScoD-ECG for ECG baseline wander and noise removal, which has better approximations of the true data distribution and higher stability under extreme noise corruptions. SIGNIFICANCE: This study is one of the first to extend the conditional diffusion-based generative model for ECG noise removal, and the DeScoD-ECG has the potential to be widely used in biomedical applications.

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ElectrocardiographySignal Processing, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsDatabases, FactualDeep LearningHumansSignal-To-Noise Ratio

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PMID37021916
PMCPMC11422060

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