Leveraging blockchain for retraining deep learning architecture in patient-specific arrhythmia classification

Amit Juneja, Michael Marefat

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Abstract

Stacked Denoising Autoencoders (SDA) are deep networks which have gained popularity owing to their superior performance in image classification applications, but they haven't been used much in healthcare applications. SDA can be efficiently retrained to adapt to large streams of data, and this property is used in this work to develop a technique for classification of arrhythmias in a patient-specific manner. This approach is particularly useful in continuous remote systems because they gather large amounts of data for longer periods of time. Blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger which secures transactions with cryptography. It is proposed as an access control manager to securely store and access data required by the classifier during retraining in real-time from an external data storage. This work uses MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database and the results show an increased accuracy for Ventricular Ectopic Beats (VEB) (99.15%) and Supraventricular Ectopic Beats (SVEB) (98.55%), which is higher than the published results of deep networks that are not retrained.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages393-397
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538624050
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 6 2018
Event2018 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2018 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Mar 4 2018Mar 7 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2018
Volume2018-January

Other

Other2018 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period3/4/183/7/18

Keywords

  • Arrhythmia Classification
  • Blockchain
  • Patient Specific
  • Remote Continuous Health Systems
  • Retraining
  • Stacked Denoising Autoencoders

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics

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