Research Article

Development and Validation of Embedded Device for Electrocardiogram Arrhythmia Empowered with Transfer Learning

Table 1

Limitations of the related work and its outcomes.

StudiesDatasetTechniqueOutcomesLimits

Yeh et al. [1]Private and PTB DBResNet, AlexNet, and SqueezeNetAccuracy and kappa statistics of ResNet, AlexNet, and SqueezeNet in ECG waveform classification (0.97, 0.96), (0.96, 0.95), and (0.75, 0.67).(i) No data augmentation,
(ii) less accurate, and
(iii) worked on waveform classification

Wasimuddin et al. [2]ECG-IDCAD and machine learning approachCAD and machine learning approach working on 2D image based on classification and worked on the R peak of the ECG and showed an accuracy of 98.5%.(i) Handcrafted features,
(ii) small dataset, and
(iii) accuracy is remarkable but slow because of handcrafted features

Hsu et al. [7]MIT-BIHAlexNet and ResNet 18ECG into the fingerprint by using the transfer learning methods and proved the predicted accuracy of 94.4%.(i) No data augmentation and
(ii) handcrafted features

Elgendi and Menon [8]PrivateMachine learning approachSupervised ML algorithms confirmed that ECG is an optimal wearable biosignal for assessing driving stress, with an overall accuracy of 75.02%.(i) Low accuracy,
(ii) augmentation not performed, and
(iii) handcrafted features

Gaddam and Sreehari [12]MIT-BIHAlexNetTransferred deep learning convolution neural net with 1D and 2D structure with 95.6% accuracy.(i) Augmentation not performed and
(ii) low accuracy

Simjanoska et al. [14]4 private datasets usedMachine learningThe proposed method achieved 8.64 mmHg of the mean absolute error in the case of SBP.(i) Handcrafted and
(ii) low accuracy

Acharya et al. [15]PTB DBCNN layersCNN for automated detection of myocardial interaction using ECG signals, and inferred the data with noise (93.5%) and without noise (95.22%).(i) Low accuracy and
(ii) less number of classes

Tomer Golany [21]PrivateGAN-based generative models such as GAN, DCNN, SIMCGAN, and SIMDCGAN.Simulator-based network for ECG to improve deep ECG classification was used and compared all GAN-based models to find the accurate result of ECG and got SIMDCGAN as a refined and result-oriented model.(i) Low accuracy,
(ii) augmentation not performed, and
(iii) handcrafted features

Sehirli et al. [28]PTB-XLRNN (LSTM and GRU)Compared the performance of the RNN with the long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) and then observed that the LSTM technique is the latent method for the sequential data and time series with the accuracy of 97.7%.(i) Less accurate,
(ii) small dataset, and
(iii) augmentation not performed

Strodthoff et al. [33]PTB-XLResNet and inceptionDeep learning of ECG analysis by using datasets showed an 89.8% result.(i) No augmentation and
(ii) low accuracy

Rahman et al. [45]MIT-BIHCAA-TL model (deep learning)Different transfer learning approaches analyzed with data augmentation achieved 98.38% accuracy.(i) No data fusion,
(ii) low accuracy, and
(iii) no hardware implementation