Abstract

Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of arrhythmia. The process of detecting AF disease is quite difficult. This is because it is necessary to detect the presence or absence of a P signal wave in the ECG signal. However, this method requires special expertise from a cardiologist. Several literatures have proposed an automatic ECG classification system. However, the intra-patient paradigm does not simulate real-world scenarios. One of the challenges in the inter-patient paradigm is the morphological differences between one subject and another. In order to overcome the problems that arise in the automatic classification of ECG signal patterns a deep learning approach was proposed. This study proposes the classification process of atrial fibrillation in the inter-patient paradigm using a one-dimensional convolutional neural network architecture. The test is divided into two cases: two labels (Normal and AF) and three labels (Normal, AF and Non-AF). In the case of two test labels with an inter-patient scheme, the performance was 100% for all test metrics (accuracy, sensitivity, precision, and F1-Score). However, in the three-label case, the model's performance decreased to 85.95, 70.02, 72.50, 71.19 for accuracy, sensitivity, precision and F1-Score, respectively.