A new framework using deep auto-encoder and energy spectral density for medical waveform data classification and processing

Abstract This paper proposes a new framework for medical data processing which is essentially designed based on deep autoencoder and energy spectral density (ESD) concepts. The main novelty of this framework is to incorporate ESD function as feature extractor into a unique deep sparse auto-encoders (DSAEs) architecture. This allows the proposed architecture to extract more qualified features in a shorter computational time compared with the conventional frameworks. In order to validate the performance of the proposed framework, it has been tested with a number of comprehensive medical waveform datasets with varying dimensionality, namely, Epilepsy Serious Detection, SPECTF Classification and Diagnosis of Cardiac Arrhythmias. Overall, the ESD function speeds up the deep auto-encoder processing time and increases the overall accuracy of the results which are compared to several studies in the literature and a promising agreement is achieved.