ECG Classification on PTB-XL: A Data-Centric Approach with Simplified CNN-VAE
Automated electrocardiogram (ECG) classification is essential for early detection of cardiovascular diseases. While recent approaches have increasingly relied on deep neural networks with complex architectures, we demonstrate that careful data preprocessing, class balancing, and a simplified convolutional neural network combined with a variational autoencoder (CNN-VAE) architecture can achieve competitive performance with significantly reduced model complexity. Using the publicly available PTB XL dataset, we achieve 87.01% binary accuracy and 0.7454 weighted F1-score across five diagnostic classes (CD, HYP, MI, NORM, STTC) with only 197,093 trainable parameters. Our work emphasises the im...
| Authors | Naqcho Ali Mehdi, Amir Ali |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 8 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 March 2026 |
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