Attention-Based Residual Dense Shrinkage Network for ECG Denoising

Electrocardiogram(ECG)signal is one of the noninvasive physiological measurement techniques commonly usedin cardiac diagnosis.However,in real scenarios,the ECGsignal is susceptible to various noise erosion,which affectsthe subsequent pathological analysis.Therefore,the effective removal of the noise from ECG signals has becomea top priority in cardiac diagnostic research.Aiming at the problem of incomplete signal shape retention andlow signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)after denoising,a novel ECG denoising network,named attention-based residualdense shrinkage network(ARDSN),is proposed in this paper.Firstly,the shallow ECG characteristics are extractedby a shallow feature extraction network(SFEN).Then,the residual dense shrinkage attention block(RDSAB)isused for adaptive noise suppression.Finally,feature fusion representation(FFR)is performed on the hierarchicalfeatures extracted by a series of RDSABs to reconstruct the de-noised ECG signal.Experiments on the MIT-BIHarrhythmia database and MIT-BIH noise stress test database indicate that the proposed scheme can effectively resistthe interference of different sources of noise on the ECG signal.

A combination of learning and non-learning based method for enhancement, compression and reconstruction of underwater images

Complex nature of underwater environment poses biggest challenge towards image acquisition and transmission of underwater images.This paper proposes an integrated approach which consists of a non-learning enhancement method with deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN)for compression and reconstruction of the image.The proposed method does color and contrast correction for image enhancement.The enhanced images are down-sampled using 9-layer CNN followed by Discrete Wavelet Transform(DWT).The decompression is done by using Inverse DWT.Further,the sub-pixel up-sampled image is de-blurred using a three-layer CNN.Residual Dense CNN(RD-CNN)is used to improve the quality of the reconstructed image after deblurring.The quality of the reconstructed images is measured using Peak Signal to Noise Ratio(PSNR)and Structural Similarity Index Metric(SSIM).The proposed model provides better image enhancement,compression,and reconstruction quality than the existing state-of-the-art methods and Super Resolution CNN(SRCNN)respectively.