Analyzing the performance of biomedical time-series segmentation with electrophysiology data

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2025-04-06
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Ředina, Richard
Hejč, Jakub
Filipenská, Marina
Stárek, Zdeněk
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Mark
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NATURE PORTFOLIO
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Accurate segmentation of biomedical time-series, such as intracardiac electrograms, is vital for understanding physiological states and supporting clinical interventions. Traditional rule-based and feature engineering approaches often struggle with complex clinical patterns and noise. Recent deep learning advancements offer solutions, showing various benefits and drawbacks in segmentation tasks. This study evaluates five segmentation algorithms, from traditional rule-based methods to advanced deep learning models, using a unique clinical dataset of intracardiac signals from 100 patients. We compared a rule-based method, a support vector machine (SVM), fully convolutional semantic neural network (UNet), region proposal network (Faster R-CNN), and recurrent neural network for electrocardiographic signals (DENS-ECG). Notably, Faster R-CNN has never been applied to 1D signals segmentation before. Each model underwent Bayesian optimization to minimize hyperparameter bias. Results indicated that deep learning models outperformed traditional methods, with UNet achieving the highest segmentation score of 88.9 % (root mean square errors for onset and offset of 8.43 ms and 7.49 ms), closely followed by DENS-ECG at 87.8 %. Faster R-CNN and SVM showed moderate performance, while the rule-based method had the lowest accuracy (77.7 %). UNet and DENS-ECG excelled in capturing detailed features and handling noise, highlighting their potential for clinical application. Despite greater computational demands, their superior performance and diagnostic potential support further exploration in biomedical time-series analysis.
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Scientific Reports. 2025, vol. 15, issue 1, p. 1-15.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90533-y#Sec23
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en
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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