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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2026 Apr;73(4):1679–1693. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2025.3613471

TABLE III.

Input time series used by different models during the model development for multiclass arrhythmia classification.

Index Model name Model architecture Model input Notes
1D 2D
PPG HR ACC Magnified
HR
TFS
1 1D-VGG-16 [6](PPG only) 1D VGG-16 model Retrained Liu et al. model6 on the same data we used.
2 1D-VGG-16 [6](four channels)
3 2D DenseNet [8](2D TFS) 2D DenseNet model Retrained Chen et al.8 model on the same data we used.
4 PPG only Our 1D-Bi-GRU model
5 PPG + ACC Added accelerometer (ACC) signal.
6 HR only Heart rate (HR) was calculated from the PPG peaks with WEPD algorithm25 and was normalized with fixed range [30, 220] BPM.
7 HR + ACC
8 HR + magHR Magnified HR was normalized with each 30-sec segment’s minimum and maximum HR.
9 HR + magHR + ACC
10 PPG + HR
11 PPG + HR + ACC
12 PPG + HR + ACC + magHR (best model) The model with the best performance on our Pulsewatch dataset.