Title
Unsupervised Representation Learning And Anomaly Detection In Ecg Sequences
Abstract
While the big data revolution takes place, large amounts of electronic health records, such as electrocardiograms (ECGs) and vital signs data, have become available. These signals are often recorded as time series of observations and are now easier to obtain. In particular, with the arise of smart devices that can perform ECG, there is the quest for developing novel approaches that allow to monitor these signals efficiently, and quickly detect anomalies. However, since most data generated remains unlabelled, the task of anomaly detection is still very challenging. Unsupervised representation learning using deep generative models (e.g., variational autoencoders) has been used to learn expressive feature representations of sequences that can make downstream tasks, such as anomaly detection, easier to execute and more accurate. We propose an approach for unsupervised representation learning of ECG sequences using a variational autoencoder parameterised by recurrent neural networks, and use the learned representations for anomaly detection using multiple detection strategies. We tested our approach on the ECG5000 electrocardiogram dataset of the UCR time series classification archive. Our results show that the proposed approach is able to learn expressive representations of ECG sequences, and to detect anomalies with scores that outperform other both supervised and unsupervised methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1504/IJDMB.2019.101395
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA MINING AND BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
deep learning, representation learning, data mining, bioinformatics, variational autoencoders, recurrent neural networks, time series, anomaly detection, clustering, healthcare, electrocardiogram, unsupervised learning
Anomaly detection,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Feature learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
4
1748-5673
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Pereira100.34
Margarida Silveira210910.48