An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification

With escalating mortality rates associated with cardiovascular disease, the early detection of arrhythmias assumes ever-increasing significance. This study introduces a novel multimodal network that concurrently classifies electrocardiogram (ECG) and wrist pulse signal (WPS). Both ECG and WPS, as hu...

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Main Authors: Jiajian Zhu, Yue Feng, Qichao Liu, Hong Xu, Yuan Miao, Zhuosheng Lin, Jia Li, Huilin Liu, Ying Xu, Fufeng Li
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author Jiajian Zhu
Yue Feng
Qichao Liu
Hong Xu
Yuan Miao
Zhuosheng Lin
Jia Li
Huilin Liu
Ying Xu
Fufeng Li
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Yue Feng
Qichao Liu
Hong Xu
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Jia Li
Huilin Liu
Ying Xu
Fufeng Li
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description With escalating mortality rates associated with cardiovascular disease, the early detection of arrhythmias assumes ever-increasing significance. This study introduces a novel multimodal network that concurrently classifies electrocardiogram (ECG) and wrist pulse signal (WPS). Both ECG and WPS, as human physiological signals, share closely related distributions and characteristics, holding potential to accurately reflect underlying cardiovascular conditions. The proposed ICMT-Net utilizes continuous wavelet transform to partition 5-second ECG and WPS segments into spectrograms. It incorporates an improved ConvNeXt, a multimodal transformer layer, and a fused multi-layer perceptron to extract and fuse multimodal features for ECG classification. Subsequently, the network is adapted to WPS and coronary heart disease classification tasks through transfer learning techniques. In comparison to existing methods, our approach achieves heightened sensitivity in detecting supraventricular and ventricular ectopic segments, while also outperforming established WPS classification methodologies. Importantly, the proposed network adeptly handles multimodal signals and excels in classification accuracy, particularly within the realm of physiological signals.
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spelling doaj-art-d20ea76f3d1f47888d3a157eef7004882025-01-21T00:02:31ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-0112112171122910.1109/ACCESS.2024.335527310401880An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal ClassificationJiajian Zhu0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4500-8885Yue Feng1Qichao Liu2Hong Xu3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2968-9804Yuan Miao4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-3465Zhuosheng Lin5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5963-8525Jia Li6Huilin Liu7Ying Xu8Fufeng Li9https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0566-3589Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, ChinaFaculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, ChinaFaculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, ChinaFaculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, ChinaCollege of Arts, Business, Law, Education and iT,, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaFaculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, ChinaFaculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen, Guangdong, ChinaBasic Medical College, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, ChinaLaboratory of TCM Four Processing, Shanghai University of TCM, Shanghai, ChinaLaboratory of TCM Four Processing, Shanghai University of TCM, Shanghai, ChinaWith escalating mortality rates associated with cardiovascular disease, the early detection of arrhythmias assumes ever-increasing significance. This study introduces a novel multimodal network that concurrently classifies electrocardiogram (ECG) and wrist pulse signal (WPS). Both ECG and WPS, as human physiological signals, share closely related distributions and characteristics, holding potential to accurately reflect underlying cardiovascular conditions. The proposed ICMT-Net utilizes continuous wavelet transform to partition 5-second ECG and WPS segments into spectrograms. It incorporates an improved ConvNeXt, a multimodal transformer layer, and a fused multi-layer perceptron to extract and fuse multimodal features for ECG classification. Subsequently, the network is adapted to WPS and coronary heart disease classification tasks through transfer learning techniques. In comparison to existing methods, our approach achieves heightened sensitivity in detecting supraventricular and ventricular ectopic segments, while also outperforming established WPS classification methodologies. Importantly, the proposed network adeptly handles multimodal signals and excels in classification accuracy, particularly within the realm of physiological signals.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10401880/Electrocardiogramwrist pulse signaltransfer learningcoronary heart disease classification
spellingShingle Jiajian Zhu
Yue Feng
Qichao Liu
Hong Xu
Yuan Miao
Zhuosheng Lin
Jia Li
Huilin Liu
Ying Xu
Fufeng Li
An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification
IEEE Access
Electrocardiogram
wrist pulse signal
transfer learning
coronary heart disease classification
title An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification
title_full An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification
title_fullStr An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification
title_full_unstemmed An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification
title_short An Improved ConvNeXt With Multimodal Transformer for Physiological Signal Classification
title_sort improved convnext with multimodal transformer for physiological signal classification
topic Electrocardiogram
wrist pulse signal
transfer learning
coronary heart disease classification
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10401880/
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