Electrocardiograms (ECGs) play a vital role in the clinical diagnosis of heart diseases. An ECG record of the heart signal over time can be used to discover numerous arrhythmias. Our work is based on 15 different classes from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset. But the MIT-BIH dataset is strongly imbalanced, which impairs the accuracy of deep learning models. We propose a novel data-augmentation technique using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to restore the balance of the dataset. Two deep learning approaches-an end-to-end approach and a two-stage hierarchical approach-based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used to eliminate hand-engineering features by combining feature extraction, feature reduction, and classification into a single learning method. Results show that augmenting the original imbalanced dataset with generated heartbeats by using the proposed techniques more effectively improves the performance of ECG classification than using the same techniques trained only with the original dataset. Furthermore, we demonstrate that augmenting the heartbeats using GANs outperforms other common data augmentation techniques. Our experiments with these techniques achieved overall accuracy above 98.0%, precision above 90.0%, specificity above 97.4%, and sensitivity above 97.7% after the dataset had been balanced using GANs, results that outperform several other ECG classification methods. INDEX TERMS Class imbalance, convolution neural networks (CNNs), ECG classification, generative adversarial networks (GANs).

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Abstract. In this paper, an improved segmentation approach based on Neutrosophic sets (NS) and fuzzy c-mean clustering (FCM) is proposed. An application of abdominal CT imaging has been chosen and segmentation approach has been applied to see their ability and accuracy to segment abdominal CT images. The abdominal CT image is transformed into NS domain, which is described using three subsets namely; the percentage of truth in a subset T , the percentage of indeterminacy in a subset I, and the percentage of falsity in a subset F . The entropy in NS is defined and employed to evaluate the indeterminacy. Threshold for NS image is adapted using Fuzzy C-mean algorithm. Finally, abdominal CT image is segmented and liver parenchyma is selected using connected component algorithm. The proposed approach denoted as NS-FCM and compared with FCM using Jaccard Index and Dice Coefficient. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is less sensitive to noise and performs better on nonuniform CT images.

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This paper presents a comparative study using different color spaces to evaluate the performance of color image segmentation using the automatic GrabCut technique. GrabCut is considered as one of the semiautomatic image segmentation techniques, since it requires user interaction for the initialization of the segmentation process. The automation of the GrabCut technique is proposed as a modification of the original semiautomatic one in order to eliminate the user interaction. The automatic GrabCut utilizes the unsupervised Orchard and Bouman clustering technique for the initialization phase. Comparisons with the original GrabCut show the efficiency of the proposed automatic technique in terms of segmentation, quality, and accuracy. As no explicit color space is recommended for every segmentation problem, automatic GrabCut is applied with RGB, HSV, CMY, XYZ, and YUV color spaces. The comparative study and experimental results using different color images show that RGB color space is the best color space representation for the set of the images used.

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