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Domain Agnostic Post-Processing for QRS Detection Using Recurrent Neural Network
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posted on 2023-03-02, 05:22 authored by MD Ahsan HabibMD Ahsan Habib, Chandan KarmakarChandan Karmakar, John YearwoodJohn YearwoodDeep-learning-based QRS-detection algorithms often require essential post-processing to refine the output prediction-stream for R-peak localisation. The post-processing involves basic signal-processing tasks including the removal of random noise in the model's prediction stream using a basic Salt and Pepper filter, as well as, tasks that use domain-specific thresholds, including a minimum QRS size, and a minimum or maximum R-R distance. These thresholds were found to vary among QRS-detection studies and empirically determined for the target dataset, which may have implications if the target dataset differs such as the drop of performance in unknown test datasets. Moreover, these studies, in general, fail to identify the relative strengths of deep-learning models and the post-processing to weigh them appropriately. This study identifies the domain-specific post-processing, as found in the QRS-detection literature, as three steps based on the required domain knowledge. It was found that the use of minimal domain-specific post-processing if often sufficient for most of the cases and the use of additional domain-specific refinement ensures superior performance, however, it makes the process biased towards the training data and lacks generalisability. As a remedy, a domain-agnostic automated post-processing is introduced where a separate recurrent neural network (RNN)-based model learns required post-processing from the output generated from a QRS-segmenting deep learning model, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first of its kind. The RNN-based post-processing shows superiority over the domain-specific post-processing for most of the cases (with shallow variants of the QRS-segmenting model and datasets like TWADB) and lags behind for others but with a small margin ($\leq$ 2%). The consistency of the RNN-based post-processor is an important characteristic which can be utilised in designing a stable and domain agnostic QRS detector.
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IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health InformaticsVolume
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2168-2194eISSN
2168-2208Publication classification
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