arXiv AI

Wearable ECG Quality Assessment: A Deep Learning and Ambulatory Context-Awareness Approach

The paper introduces a deep learning-based signal quality assessment model that differentiates clean from noisy ambulatory ECG recordings. It is trained on the Copenhagen Center for Health Technology-Contextualized Arrhythmia Database, the first ambulatory ECG database that includes both physical and patient-reported contextual data. The model maintains stable performance across other datasets such as MIT and PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2021, and the study demonstrates how the model can be used to investigate complex ECG noise in conjunction with contextual information.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

Robust Photoplethysmography Signal Denoising via Mamba Networks

The paper introduces DPNet, a Mamba-based deep learning framework for denoising photoplethysmography (PPG) signals while preserving physiological information. It incorporates a scale‑invariant signal‑to‑distortion ratio loss and an auxiliary heart‑rate predictor to enhance waveform fidelity and maintain heart‑rate accuracy. Experiments on the BIDMC dataset show that DPNet outperforms conventional filtering and existing neural models in robustness against synthetic noise and real‑world motion artifacts, making it suitable for wearable healthcare systems.

By I Chiu, Yu-Tung Liu, Kuan-Chen Wang, Hung-Yu Wei, Yu Tsao