Research on the Classification of ECG and PCG Signals Based on BiLSTM-GoogLeNet-DS

Abstract

Because a cardiac function signal cannot reflect cardiac health in all directions, we propose a classification method using ECG and PCG signals based on BiLSTM-GoogLeNet-DS. The electrocardiogram (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG) signals used as research objects were collected synchronously. Firstly, the obtained ECG and PCG signals were filtered, and then the ECG and PCG signals were fused and classified by using a bi-directional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM). After that, the time-frequency processing was performed on the filtered ECG and PCG signals to obtain the time-frequency diagram of each signal; the one-dimensional signal was changed into a two-dimensional image signal, and the size of each image signal was adjusted to input the improved GoogLeNet network for classification. Then we obtained the two-channel classification results. The three-channel classification results, combined with the classification results of the above BiLSTM network, were finally obtained. The classification results of these three channels were used to make a decision via the fusion strategy of the improved D-S theory. Finally, we obtained the classification results. Taking 70% of the signals in the database as training data and 30% as test data, the obtained classification accuracy was 96.13%, the sensitivity was 98.48%, the specificity was 90.8%, and the F1 score was 97.24%. From the experimental results, the method proposed in this paper obtained high classification accuracy, and the classification effect was better than a cardiac function signal, which makes up for the low accuracy of the cardiac function signal for judging cardiac disease.