In this paper have developed a novel hybrid hierarchical attention-based
bidirectional recurrent neural network with dilated CNN (HARDC) method for
arrhythmia classification. This solves problems that arise when traditional
dilated convolutional neural network (CNN) models disregard the correlation
between contexts and gradient dispersion. The proposed HARDC fully exploits the
dilated CNN and bidirectional recurrent neural network unit (BiGRU-BiLSTM)
architecture to generate fusion features. As a result of incorporating both
local and global feature information and an attention mechanism, the model's
performance for prediction is improved.By combining the fusion features with a
dilated CNN and a hierarchical attention mechanism, the trained HARDC model
showed significantly improved classification results and interpretability of
feature extraction on the PhysioNet 2017 challenge dataset. Sequential Z-Score
normalization, filtering, denoising, and segmentation are used to prepare the
raw data for analysis. CGAN (Conditional Generative Adversarial Network) is
then used to generate synthetic signals from the processed data. The
experimental results demonstrate that the proposed HARDC model significantly
outperforms other existing models, achieving an accuracy of 99.60\%, F1 score
of 98.21\%, a precision of 97.66\%, and recall of 99.60\% using MIT-BIH
generated ECG. In addition, this approach substantially reduces run time when
using dilated CNN compared to normal convolution. Overall, this hybrid model
demonstrates an innovative and cost-effective strategy for ECG signal
compression and high-performance ECG recognition. Our results indicate that an
automated and highly computed method to classify multiple types of arrhythmia
signals holds considerable promise.Comment: 23 page
