Parallel classification model of arrhythmia based on DenseNet-BiLSTM

In order to improve the classification performance of the model for different kinds of arrhythmias, a parallel classification model of arrhythmia based on DenseNet-BiLSTM is researched and proposed. Firstly, the model adopts a parallel structure. After wavelet denoising and heartbeat segmentation of ECG signals, this model can simultaneously capture the waveform features of small-scale heartbeat and large-scale heartbeat containing RR interval; Then, based on deep learning, Densely connected convolutional network (DenseNet) is applied to improve the model’s ability to extract local features of ECG signals, and bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) is introduced to improve the performance of the model in extracting time series features of ECG signals; Finally, weighted cross entropy loss function is used to alleviate the class imbalance of arrhythmia, and Softmax function is applied to achieve 4 classifications of arrhythmia. Experiments based on MIT-BIH arrhythmia database show that under the intra-patient paradigm, training time for each epoch, overall accuracy, F1 and specificity are 42 s, 99.44%, 95.89% and 99.32%, respectively; Under the inter-patient paradigm, training time for each epoch, overall accuracy, F1 and specificity are 23 s, 92.37%, 63.49% and 94.51%, respectively. Compared with other classification models, the model proposed in this paper has a good classification effect and is expected to be used in clinical auxiliary diagnosis.