Reliable ECG Classification Using RNN and GRU Architectures for Arrhythmia Detection

  • Bhagyashree Saikia North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology
  • Pooja Debbarma Research Scholar
  • Rajesh Kumar North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology
  • M.M. Dixit North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology

Resumen

Cardiac disease has become a severe threat to public health as
it has become a leading cause of mortality in India. Electrocardiogram (ECG)
signal classification plays a pivotal role in early detection of cardiac arrhyth
mias, potentially reducing morbidity and mortality associated with cardiovas
cular diseases. This study presents a comparative analysis of Recurrent Neural
Network(RNN) and Grated Recurrent Unit(GRU) architectures for ECG sig
nal classification using the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia dataset. After preprocessing
and class balancing, both models were trained to classify five heartbeat types.
Experimental results show that GRU model achieved a significantly higher test
accuracy (98.61%) compared to the RNN (83.39%), demonstrating its potential
for real-time cardiac monitoring applications in diagnostic systems and wearable
devices.

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Biografía del autor/a

Pooja Debbarma, Research Scholar

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli-791109, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Rajesh Kumar, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology

Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, Nirjuli-791109, Arunachal Pradesh, India 

M.M. Dixit, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology

Professor, Department of Mathematics, North Eastern Regional Institute of
Science and Technology, Nirjuli-791109, Arunachal Pradesh, India

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Publicado
2025-10-07
Sección
Mathematics and Computing - Innovations and Applications (ICMSC-2025)