Title: A novel IoT-based arrhythmia detection system with ECG signals using a hybrid convolutional neural network and neural architecture search network

Authors: Ümit Şentürk; Ceren Gülen; Kemal Polat

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey ' Department of Computer Engineering, Education of Graduate Institute, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey ' Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey

Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are the most common tool to evaluate the heart's function in cardiovascular diagnosis. Irregular heartbeats (arrhythmia) found in the ECG play an essential role in diagnosing cardiovascular diseases (CVD). In this paper, we proposed an arrhythmia classification method with the neural architecture search network (NASNet) model, an optimised version of the convolutional neural networks (2D-CNN) model, which performs very well in visual information analysis classification. We aimed to use the arrhythmia classification problem in IoT and mobile devices with the NASNet model with low parameter numbers and processing capacity without performance loss. 2D input data have been obtained by converting the classified heart rate signals in the datasets into image files. The 2D data obtained have been classified by machine learning, CNN, and NASNet models. As a result of classification, 2D CNN accuracy was 97.51%, and the NASNet model was 96.89% accuracy. As a result of arrhythmia classification, the accuracy rates of the NASNet and the 2D CNN models were close. In conclusion, the proposed IoT-based arrhythmia detection system with ECG signals using a hybrid CNN and NASNet is a promising tool for the early detection of arrhythmias. Furthermore, it could help to reduce the mortality associated with these potentially fatal conditions.

Keywords: arrhythmia detection; neural architecture search network; NASNet; IoT; network optimisation; time series; real-time measurement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2024.140853

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, 2024 Vol.17 No.5, pp.636 - 656

Received: 05 Apr 2023
Accepted: 12 Apr 2023
Published online: 03 Sep 2024 *

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