Ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) readings are prone to mixed noise from physical activities, including baseline wander (BW), muscle artifact (MA), and electrode motion artifact (EM). Developing a method to remove such complex noise and reconstruct high-fidelity signals is clinically valuable for diagnostic accuracy. However, denoising of multi-beat ECG segments remains understudied and poses technical challenges. To address this, we propose Time-Frequency Complementary Diffusion (TFCDiff), a novel approach that operates in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) domain and uses the DCT coefficients of noisy signals as conditioning input. To refine waveform details, we incorporate Temporal Feature Enhancement Mechanism (TFEM) to reinforce temporal representations and preserve key physiological information. Comparative experiments on a synthesized dataset demonstrate that TFCDiff achieves state-of-the-art performance across five evaluation metrics. Furthermore, TFCDiff shows superior generalization on the unseen SimEMG Database, outperforming all benchmark models. Notably, TFCDiff processes raw 10-second sequences and maintains robustness under flexible random mixed noise (fRMN), enabling plug-and-play deployment in wearable ECG monitors for high-motion scenarios. Source code is available at https://github.com/Miroircivil/TFCDiff.
Monitoring of electrocardiogram (ECG) provides vital information as well as any cardiovascular anomalies. Recent advances in the technology of wearable electronics have enabled compact devices to acquire personal physiological signals in the home setting; however, signals are usually contaminated with high level noise. Thus, an efficient ECG filtering scheme is a dire need. In this paper, a novel method using Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) is developed for denoising ECG signals. We also intensively explore various filtering algorithms, including Savitzky-Golay (SG) filter, Ensemble Empirical mo…
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is an important physiological signal which contains cardiac information and is the basis to diagnosis cardiac related diseases. In this paper, several innovative and efficient methods based on adaptive filter and empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to denoise ECG signal contaminated by various kinds of noise, including baseline wander (BW), power line interference (PLI), electrode motion artifact (EM) and muscle artifact (MA), are proposed. We first present a novel method based on EMD and adaptive filter for the removal of BW and PLI in ECG signal. We then extend …
The transformer based model (e.g., FusingTF) has been employed recently for Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification. However, the high-dimensional embedding obtained via 1-D convolution and positional encoding can lead to the loss of the signal's own temporal information and a large amount of training parameters. In this paper, we propose a new method for ECG classification, called low-dimensional denoising embedding transformer (LDTF), which contains two components, i.e., low-dimensional denoising embedding (LDE) and transformer learning. In the LDE component, a low-dimensional represen…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are known to produce synthetic data that are difficult to discern from real ones by humans. In this paper we present an approach to use GAN to produce realistically looking ECG signals. We utilize them to train and evaluate a denoising autoencoder that achieves state-of-the-art filtering quality for ECG signals. It is demonstrated that generated data improves the model performance compared to the model trained on real data only. We also investigate an effect of transfer learning by reusing trained discriminator network for denoising model.
We propose a novel deep learning based denoising filter selection algorithm for noisy Electrocardiograph (ECG) signal preprocessing. ECG signals measured under clinical conditions, such as those acquired using skin contact devices in hospitals, often contain baseline signal disturbances and unwanted artefacts; indeed for signals obtained outside of a clinical environment, such as heart rate signatures recorded using non-contact radar systems, the measurements contain greater levels of noise than those acquired under clinical conditions. In this paper, we focus on heart rate signals acquired us…
SSEMG-Net: A Spectrogram-Based Mamba Network for Surface Electromyography Denoising
National Taiwan University（国立台湾大学）；Academia Sinica（中央研究院）；Stevens Institute of Technology（史蒂文斯理工学院）；Columbia University Irving Medical Center（哥伦比亚大学欧文医学中心）
School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering（电气与电子工程学院）；University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学）
Effective and powerful methods for denoising real electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are important for wearable sensors and devices. Deep Learning (DL) models have been used extensively in image processing and other domains with great success but only very recently have been used in processing ECG signals. This paper presents several DL models namely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) together with the more conventional filtering methods (low pass filtering, high pass filtering, Notch filtering) and the standard wavelet-based te…
Electrocardiographic signal is a subject to multiple noises, caused by various factors. It is therefore a standard practice to denoise such signal before further analysis. With advances of new branch of machine learning, called deep learning, new methods are available that promises state-of-the-art performance for this task. We present a novel approach to denoise electrocardiographic signals with deep recurrent denoising neural networks. We utilize a transfer learning technique by pretraining the network using synthetic data, generated by a dynamic ECG model, and fine-tuning it with a real dat…
Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre Indian Institute of Technology Madras（印度理工学院马德拉斯分校医疗技术创新中心）；Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras（印度理工学院马德拉斯分校电气工程系）
Continuous monitoring of cardiac health under free living condition is crucial to provide effective care for patients undergoing post operative recovery and individuals with high cardiac risk like the elderly. Capacitive Electrocardiogram (cECG) is one such technology which allows comfortable and long term monitoring through its ability to measure biopotential in conditions without having skin contact. cECG monitoring can be done using many household objects like chairs, beds and even car seats allowing for seamless monitoring of individuals. This method is unfortunately highly susceptible to …
MECG-E: Mamba-based ECG Enhancer for Baseline Wander Removal
National Taiwan University（台湾大学）；University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校）；National Institute of Information and Communications Technology（信息通信研究机构）
National Taiwan University（国立台湾大学）；Academia Sinica（中央研究院）；National Taiwan University of Science and Technology（国立台湾科技大学）
Electrocardiogram (ECG) artifact contamination often occurs in surface electromyography (sEMG) applications when the measured muscles are in proximity to the heart. Previous studies have developed and proposed various methods, such as high-pass filtering, template subtraction and so forth. However, these methods remain limited by the requirement of reference signals and distortion of original sEMG. This study proposed a novel denoising method to eliminate ECG artifacts from the single-channel sEMG signals using fully convolutional networks (FCN). The proposed method adopts a denoise autoencode…
MSEMG: Surface Electromyography Denoising with a Mamba-based Efficient Network
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（国立阳明交通大学）；National Taiwan University（国立台湾大学）；University of Palermo（巴勒莫大学）；Academic Sinica（中央研究院）；Research Center for Information Technology Innovation（资讯科技创新研究中心）
Due to the multiple imperfections during the signal acquisition, Electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets are typically contaminated with numerous types of noise, like salt and pepper and baseline drift. These datasets may contain different recordings with various types of noise [1] and thus, denoising may not be the easiest task. Furthermore, usually, the number of labeled bio-signals is very limited for a proper classification task.
SDEMG: Score-based Diffusion Model for Surface Electromyographic Signal Denoising
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（国立阳明交通大学）；National Taiwan University（国立台湾大学）；National Taipei University of Technology（国立台北科技大学）；National Taiwan University of Science and Technology（国立台湾科技大学）；Academia Sinica（中央研究院）
Continuous long-term monitoring of electrocardiography (ECG) signals is crucial for the early detection of cardiac abnormalities such as arrhythmia. Non-clinical ECG recordings acquired by Holter and wearable ECG sensors often suffer from severe artifacts such as baseline wander, signal cuts, motion artifacts, variations on QRS amplitude, noise, and other interferences. Usually, a set of such artifacts occur on the same ECG signal with varying severity and duration, and this makes an accurate diagnosis by machines or medical doctors extremely difficult. Despite numerous studies that have attem…
CPR: Causal Physiological Representation Learning for Robust ECG Analysis under Distribution Shifts
Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China（创新工程学院，澳门科技大学，澳门，中国）；Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China（深圳先进技术大学，深圳，中国）
HARDC : A novel ECG-based heartbeat classification method to detect arrhythmia using hierarchical attention based dual structured RNN with dilated CNN
Universiti Malaysia Pahang（马来西亚彭亨大学）；Queensland University of Technology（昆士兰科技大学）；Islamic University（伊斯兰大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；University of Cambridge（剑桥大学）；The Garvan Institute of Medical Research（加文医学研究所）；The University of Queensland（昆士兰大学）
Diffusion-Based Electrocardiography Noise Quantification via Anomaly Detection
Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University（脑科学与认知工程系，韩国大学）；Interdisciplinary Program in Precision Public Health, Korea University（精准公共卫生交叉计划，韩国大学）；Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong（麻醉与疼痛医学科，京亨大学医院江dong分院）；Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Hospital（内科学科，首尔国立大学医学院和首尔国立大学医院）；Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University（生物医学工程系，延世大学）；Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul（纳米粒子研究中心，基础科学研究所，首尔）；Department of Neurology, Korea University College of Medicine（神经医学科，韩国大学医学院）
A Novel Data Augmentation Strategy for Robust Deep Learning Classification of Biomedical Time-Series Data: Application to ECG and EEG Analysis
Computer Science Department, College of Science, University of Zakho（扎赫大学科学学院计算机科学系）；Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, The American University of Kurdistan（库尔德斯坦美国大学计算机科学与信息技术系）；PRIME Lab, Scientific Research Center, University of Zakho（扎赫大学科学研究中心PRIME实验室）
A Complex UNet Approach for Non-Invasive Fetal ECG Extraction Using Single-Channel Dry Textile Electrodes
SIGMA Laboratory, CAMPUS Institute, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest（SIGMA实验室，CAMPUS研究所，波兰学院科学技术大学布加勒斯特分校）；Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento（信息工程与计算机科学系，特伦特大学）；Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology（电气工程系，埃因霍温理工大学）
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee（鲁尔基印度理工学院）；Leicester Royal Infirmary（莱斯特皇家医院）；Glenfield Hospital（格伦菲尔德医院）
The incidences of atrial fibrillation (AFib) are increasing at a daunting rate worldwide. For the early detection of the risk of AFib, we have developed an automatic detection system based on deep neural networks. For achieving better classification, it is mandatory to have good pre-processing of physiological signals. Keeping this in mind, we have proposed a two-fold study. First, an end-to-end model is proposed to denoise the electrocardiogram signals using denoising autoencoders (DAE). To achieve denoising, we have used three networks including, convolutional neural network (CNN), dense neu…
