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R
WT
-Net:
A
h
ybrid
ResNet-wa
v
elet-transf
ormer
f
or
early
detection
of
left
v
entricular
h
ypertr
oph
y
Hoang
Huu
T
o
Nguy
en
1
,
Phuong
Huu
Nghia
Le
2
,
Lam
Mai
1
,
Nguy
en
Pham
Ho
T
r
ong
3
1
F
aculty
of
Computer
Science,
V
ietnam-K
orea
Uni
v
ersity
of
Information
and
Communication
T
echnology
,
The
Uni
v
ersity
of
Da
Nang,
Da
Nang,
V
iet
Nam
2
Department
of
Biomedical
Clinical
Equipment
T
echnology
,
San
Jacinto
Colle
ge,
Houston,
T
e
xas,
United
States
of
America
3
Department
of
Information
Assurance,
FPT
Uni
v
ersity
,
Da
Nang,
V
iet
Nam
Article
Inf
o
Article
history:
Recei
v
ed
Aug
2,
2025
Re
vised
Oct
29,
2025
Accepted
Dec
8,
2025
K
eyw
ords:
Deep
learning
Electrocardiogram
Left
v
entricular
h
ypertroph
y
R
WT
-Net
T
ransformer
W
a
v
elet
transform
ABSTRA
CT
Early
detection
of
left
v
entricular
h
ypertroph
y
(L
VH),
a
k
e
y
predictor
of
heart
f
ailure
and
strok
e,
is
critical.
Ho
we
v
er
,
standard
12-lead
electrocardiogram
(ECG)
criteria
suf
fer
from
lo
w
sensiti
vity
.
While
deep
learning
sho
ws
promise,
a
research
g
ap
e
xists
for
models
that
rob
ustly
inte
grate
di
v
erse
si
gnal
fea-
tures
to
impro
v
e
detection,
especially
sensiti
vity
.
W
e
propose
ResNet-w
a
v
elet-
transformer
net
(R
WT
-Net),
a
h
ybrid
architecture
that
fuses
deep
morpholog-
ical
features
from
a
ResNet1D
with
statistical
t
ime-frequenc
y
features
from
a
w
a
v
elet
pack
et
transform
(WPT)
using
a
transformer
encoder
.
The
model
w
as
e
v
aluated
on
the
PTB-XL
dataset
(11,201
recordings)
using
a
stringent,
patient-
le
v
el
5-fold
cross-v
alidation.
R
WT
-Net
achie
v
ed
a
mean
area
under
the
curv
e
(A
UC)
of
0.9868
and
F1-score
of
0.8725.
Critically
,
its
w
a
v
elet-enhanced
stream
yielded
signicantly
higher
sensiti
vity
compare
d
to
a
ResNet-transformer
base-
line
(0.8964
vs.
0.8716,
p=0.0039),
better
addressing
the
clinical
need
to
mini-
mize
f
alse
ne
g
ati
v
es.
A
k
e
y
limitation
is
the
reliance
on
ECG-based
labels,
not
an
ec
hocardiograph
y
gold
standard.
R
WT
-Net
demonstrates
potential
as
a
re-
liable,
automated
screening
tool
to
prioritize
at-risk
patients
for
further
clinical
assessment.
This
is
an
open
access
article
under
the
CC
BY
-SA
license
.
Corresponding
A
uthor:
Nguyen
Pham
Ho
T
rong
Department
of
Information
Assurance,
FPT
Uni
v
ersity
FPT
City
,
Ngu
Hanh
Son
W
ard,
Da
Nang
City
,
V
iet
Nam
Email:
nguyenpht@fe.edu.vn
1.
INTR
ODUCTION
Left
v
entricular
h
ypertroph
y
(L
VH),
the
thick
ening
of
the
heart’
s
main
pumping
chamber
,
is
a
signi-
cant
cardio
v
ascular
abnormality
often
de
v
eloping
in
response
to
pressure
o
v
erload
conditions
lik
e
h
ypertension.
As
a
strong
independent
predictor
of
adv
erse
e
v
ents
such
as
heart
f
ailure
and
strok
e,
its
early
and
accurate
de-
tection
is
paramount
for
timely
interv
ention
[1].
F
or
decades,
the
12-lead
electrocardiogram
(ECG)
has
been
the
primary
non-in
v
asi
v
e
screening
tool,
yet
traditional
v
oltage-based
criteria
lik
e
Sok
olo
w-L
yon
suf
fer
from
critically
lo
w
sensiti
vity
,
often
detecting
less
than
25%
of
true
L
VH
cases.
This
diagnostic
g
ap
underscores
an
ur
gent
need
for
more
rob
ust
screening
methods.
Articial
intelligence
(AI),
particularly
deep
learning,
of
fers
a
po
werful
alternati
v
e
by
learning
com-
ple
x
patterns
from
ECGs
[2]-[4].
Con
v
olutional
neural
netw
orks
(CNNs),
especially
ResNet
architectures,
ha
v
e
specically
demonstrated
success
in
e
xtracting
morphological
features
for
L
VH
detection
[5]-[8],
with
J
ournal
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meta-analyses
conrming
their
high
diagnostic
accurac
y
[9],
[10].
Concurrently
,
interest
has
gro
wn
in
h
ybrid
architectures
combining
CNNs
with
sequence
models
[11]
or
fusing
deep
features
with
handcrafted
ones,
such
as
those
deri
v
ed
from
w
a
v
elet
transforms
[12]-[14].
Despite
these
adv
ancements,
a
signicant
methodological
g
ap
persists
in
the
literature.
Man
y
studi
es
emplo
y
simplistic
data
splitting
strate
gies
(e.g.,
at
the
record
le
v
el),
which
risk
data
leakage
from
patients
with
multiple
recordings,
leading
to
inated
and
unre
liable
performance
metrics.
A
clinically
viable
model
must
be
v
alidated
with
stringent,
patient-le
v
el
data
separation
to
ensure
it
can
generalize
to
unseen
indi
viduals.
This
study
addresses
this
g
ap
by
introducing
ResNet-w
a
v
elet-t
ransformer
net
(R
WT
-Net),
a
no
v
el
h
ybrid
architec-
ture
e
v
alua
ted
under
a
rigorous,
statistically
rob
ust
frame
w
ork.
Our
contrib
utions
are:
(i)
the
proposal
of
the
R
WT
-Net
architecture
with
a
sophisticated
fusion
mechanism
that
inte
grates
deep
morphological
features
with
handcrafted
statistical
w
a
v
elet
features;
(ii)
the
implementation
of
a
stringent
patient-stratied
5-fold
cross-
v
alidation
protocol,
repeated
across
multiple
random
seeds,
to
ensure
reliable
and
generalizable
results;
and
(iii)
a
comprehensi
v
e
ablation
and
statistical
analysis
that
v
alidates
the
contrib
ution
of
each
model
component,
re
v
ealing
the
critical
role
of
w
a
v
elet
features
in
enhancing
sensiti
vity
for
L
VH
detection,
a
k
e
y
requirement
for
ef
fecti
v
e
clinical
screening.
2.
METHOD
2.1.
Dataset
and
pr
epr
ocessing
The
study
utilized
the
PTB-XL
dataset,
a
lar
ge,
publicly
a
v
ailable
electrocardiograph
y
dataset
con-
taining
21,837
clinical
12-lead
ECGs
from
18,885
patients
[15],
[16]
an
ecosystem
that
also
includes
compre-
hensi
v
e
feature
sets
for
traditional
machine
learning
[17].
F
or
this
binary
classication
task,
a
specic
cohort
w
as
curated
based
on
the
pro
vided
PTB-XL
diagnostic
statements.
Records
were
included
as
L
VH-positi
v
e
if
the
L
VH
diagnostic
statement
w
as
present,
re
g
ardless
of
other
co-e
xisting
conditions
(e.g.,
MI
and
ISCA).
Records
were
selected
as
the
ne
g
ati
v
e
class
only
if
their
sole
diagnostic
superclass
w
as
normal
(NORM).
This
resulted
in
a
nal
study
cohort
of
11,201
recordings
from
8,960
unique
patients.
It
is
a
critical
limitation
of
this
study
that
all
labels
are
based
on
the
pro
vided
ECG
annotations
from
the
PTB-XL
dataset,
not
on
a
clinical
gold
standard
such
as
echocardiograph
y
,
which
may
introduce
diagnostic
uncertainty
.
Prior
to
model
training,
each
12-lead
signal,
sampled
at
100
Hz
for
10
seconds
(1000
times
teps),
underwent
a
tw
o-stage
preprocessing
pipeline.
First,
a
second-order
Butterw
orth
band-pass
lter
with
cutof
f
frequencies
of
0.5
Hz
and
45
Hz
w
as
applied
to
m
itig
ate
common
ECG
artif
acts.
Second,
each
lead
w
as
independently
standardized
using
Z-score
normalization
as
sho
wn
in
(1),
where
x
is
the
ra
w
signal,
µ
is
the
mean,
and
σ
is
the
standard
de
viation.
This
ensures
all
leads
are
on
a
comparable
scale,
which
is
crucial
for
impro
ving
model
con
v
er
gence.
x
nor
mal
iz
ed
=
x
−
µ
σ
(1)
The
qualitati
v
e
impro
v
ement
from
this
pipeline
is
visualized
in
Figure
1(a).
P
anel
(a)
displays
the
ra
w
signals,
while
panel
(b)
sho
ws
the
corresponding
signals
after
ltering
and
normalization,
demonstrating
the
ef
fecti
v
e
remo
v
al
of
baseline
w
ander
.
2.2.
Pr
oposed
method:
R
WT
-Net
ar
chitectur
e
Our
proposed
model,
R
WT
-Net,
is
a
h
ybrid,
dual-stream
architecture
designed
to
create
a
holistic
s
ig-
nal
representation
by
inte
grating
features
from
distinct
yet
complementary
domains.
The
rst
stream
focuses
on
e
xtracting
high-le
v
el
morphological
patterns
using
a
ResNet-based
deep
encoder
,
while
the
second
stream
captures
statistical
time-frequenc
y
characteristics
via
w
a
v
elet
pack
et
transform.
By
fusing
these
tw
o
informa-
tion
sources
through
a
transformer
encoder
,
the
model
ef
fecti
v
ely
le
v
erages
both
automated
feature
learning
and
domain-specic
signal
processing
kno
wledge.
2.2.1.
W
a
v
elet
featur
e
extraction
str
eam
In
parallel
with
the
time-domain
stream,
the
ra
w
12-lead
ECG
signal
is
processed
by
a
w
a
v
elet
pack
et
transform
(WPT)
block
using
a
Daubechies
4
(db4)
w
a
v
elet
with
a
decomposition
le
v
el
of
3.
This
decomposes
the
signal
into
2
3
=
8
frequenc
y
sub-bands
(terminal
nodes).
From
each
node’
s
coef
cients
(
c
j
),
four
statistical
features
are
calculated:
ener
gy
,
standard
de
viation,
sk
e
wness,
and
kurtosis.
These
features
from
all
12
leads
are
R
WT
-Net:
A
hybrid
ResNet-wavelet-tr
ansformer
for
early
detection
of
left
ventricular
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Huu
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then
a
v
eraged,
resulting
in
a
rich,
32-dimensional
handcrafted
fea
ture
v
ector
(
f
w
av
el
et
∈
R
32
)
that
encapsulates
the
signal’
s
time-frequenc
y
characteristics,
as
sho
wn
in
Figure
1(b).
(a)
(b)
Figure
1.
Preprocessing
and
feature
e
xtraction
visualizations:
(a)
ra
w
and
preprocessed
ECG
signals
and
(b)
e
xample
32-dimensional
WPT
feature
v
ector
2.2.2.
ResNet-transf
ormer
backbone
The
preprocessed
time-domain
signal
is
fed
into
a
deep
feature
encoder
based
on
a
ResNet1D
archi-
tecture.
The
core
of
this
netw
ork
relies
on
residual
blocks
to
help
pre
v
ent
v
anishing
gradients
in
deep
netw
orks.
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The
learned
feature
maps
are
then
projected
to
match
the
transformer’
s
internal
dimension
(
d
model
).
The
32D
w
a
v
elet
feature
v
ector
is
e
xpanded
and
concatenated
to
the
feature
v
ector
at
each
time
step.
This
fused
repre-
sentation
is
then
fed
into
a
transformer
encoder
,
which
uses
a
multi-head
self-attention
mechanism
to
capture
comple
x
interdependencies.
The
output
sequence
is
aggre
g
ated
by
a
global
a
v
erage
pooling
(GAP)
layer
and
passed
to
an
multilayer
perceptron
(MLP)
head
for
nal
classication.
The
o
v
erall
architecture,
which
inte-
grates
these
streams,
is
depicted
in
Figure
2.
Figure
2.
Ov
erall
R
WT
-Net
frame
w
ork
inte
grating
preprocessing,
dual-stream
(ResNet+W
a
v
elet)
architecture
with
transformer
fusion,
and
e
v
aluation
stages
2.3.
Experimental
setup
2.3.1.
Ev
aluation
pr
otocol
T
o
ensure
a
rob
ust
and
clinically
rele
v
ant
e
v
aluation,
we
emplo
yed
a
str
atied
5-fol
d
cross-v
al
idation
scheme
grouped
by
patient
ID.
This
protocol
guarantees
that
all
recordings
from
a
single
patient
belong
e
xclu-
si
v
ely
to
either
the
training
or
the
test
set
in
an
y
gi
v
en
fold,
pre
v
enting
data
leakage.
T
o
assess
stability
,
the
entire
5-fold
process
w
as
repeated
four
times
with
dif
ferent
random
seeds
(42,
52,
62,
72).
All
reported
results
are
the
mean
and
standard
de
viation
o
v
er
these
repeated
runs.
2.3.2.
Baseline
and
ablation
models
T
o
conte
xtualize
performance,
we
compared
R
WT
-Net
ag
ainst
se
v
eral
models:
(a)
XGBoost
on
398
handcrafted
tw
o-stream
superheterodyne
free
ele
ctron
lasers
(TSFEL)
features
[18];
(b)
1D-CNN;
(c)
long
short-term
memory
(LSTM);
and
(d)
ablation
models
(ResNet-only
,
transformer
-only
,
and
R
T
-Net
without
w
a
v
elets)
to
isolate
each
component’
s
contrib
ution.
2.3.3.
Implementation
details
Models
were
trained
on
an
NVIDIA
T4
GPU
using
the
AdamW
optimizer
[19]
and
a
weighted
cross-
entrop
y
loss
to
handle
class
imbalance.
A
cosine
anneali
ng
learning
rate
scheduler
and
early
stopping
(pa-
tience=20)
were
used.
Data
augmentati
on
(Gaussian
noise
and
time
shifts)
w
as
applied
during
training.
K
e
y
h
y-
perparameters
are
in
T
able
1.
The
implementation
le
v
erages
common
scientic
computing
libraries
in
Python,
such
as
Scikit-learn
for
e
v
aluation
metrics
[20].
R
WT
-Net:
A
hybrid
ResNet-wavelet-tr
ansformer
for
early
detection
of
left
ventricular
(Hoang
Huu
T
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T
able
1.
K
e
y
h
yperparameters
for
all
e
v
aluated
models
Model
P
arameter
V
alue
R
WT
-Net/R
T
-Net
ResNet
lters
[32,
64,
128,
256]
T
ransformer
layers/heads
2
/
4
d
model
/
d
f
f
128
/
256
Optimizer
(LR
/
weight
decay)
AdamW
(2e-4
/
5e-3)
XGBoost
n
estimators
/
max
depth
1000
/
5
learning
rate
/
early
stopping
0.005
/
50
LSTM
Hidden
size
/
Num
layers
128
/
2
Optimizer
(LR
/
weight
decay)
AdamW
(1e-4
/
1e-3)
1D-CNN
Architecture
3
Con
v
layers,
2
FC
layers
Optimizer
(LR
/
weight
decay)
AdamW
(1e-4
/
5e-4)
2.4.
Ev
aluation
metrics
and
statistical
analysis
Model
performance
w
as
e
v
aluated
using
area
under
the
curv
e
(A
UC),
F1-score,
accurac
y
,
s
ensiti
vity
,
and
specicity
.
Results
are
reported
as
mean
±
standard
de
viation.
An
independent
tw
o-sample
t-test
(alpha
=
0.05)
w
as
used
to
determine
if
performance
dif
ferences
were
statistically
signicant.
3.
RESUL
TS
AND
DISCUSSION
3.1.
Ov
erall
perf
ormance
comparison
The
comparati
v
e
results
are
summarized
in
T
able
2
and
illustrated
in
Figure
3.
T
o
visualize
the
perfor
-
mance
g
ains
across
dif
ferent
architectures,
Figure
3(a)
present
s
a
comparati
v
e
bar
chart
of
F1-scores
and
A
UC
v
alues.
Furthermore,
Figure
3(b)
pro
vides
a
detailed
vie
w
of
the
ablation
results
to
emphasize
the
impact
of
each
component.
These
visual
comparisons
are
complemented
by
the
recei
v
er
operating
characteristic
(R
OC)
curv
es
in
Figure
4(a),
which
conrm
the
superior
and
stable
discriminati
v
e
po
wer
of
the
ResNet-transformer
based
models.
R
WT
-Net
achie
v
ed
the
highest
mean
F1-score
(0.8725
±
0.0154)
and
A
UC
(0.9868
±
0.0020).
This
performance
is
statistically
superior
to
the
ne
xt
best
bas
eline,
XGBoost
(F1-score
0.8518,
p
<
0
.
001
),
and
f
ar
e
xceeds
the
standard
deep
learning
base
lines
1D-CNN
(F1-score
0.8058,
p
<
0
.
001
)
and
LSTM
(F1-score
0.7407,
p
<
0
.
001
).
T
able
2.
Ov
erall
performance
comparison
on
the
PTB-XL
dataset
(mean
±
std
o
v
er
4
runs)
Model
A
UC
F1-score
(L
VH)
Sensiti
vity
Specicity
Accurac
y
R
WT
-Net
0.9868
±
0.0020
0.8725
±
0.0154
0.8964
±
0.0292
0.9629
±
0.0109
0.9502
±
0.0062
R
T
-Net
0.9865
±
0.0022
0.8771
±
0.0110
0.8716
±
0.0188
0.9728
±
0.0048
0.9535
±
0.0044
XGBoost
0.9809
±
0.0031
0.8518
±
0.0112
0.8175
±
0.0157
0.9762
±
0.0034
0.9459
±
0.0032
1D-CNN
0.9535
±
0.0040
0.8058
±
0.0111
0.7626
±
0.0175
0.9694
±
0.0046
0.9300
±
0.0051
LSTM
0.9092
±
0.0226
0.7407
±
0.0381
0.6570
±
0.0476
0.9728
±
0.0073
0.9128
±
0.0114
(a)
(b)
Figure
3.
Model
performance
e
v
aluation,
error
bars
represent
standard
de
viation
across
runs:
(a)
o
v
erall
model
performance
comparison
and
(b)
ablation
study
performance
comparison
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3.2.
Ablation
study:
the
clinical
v
alue
of
wa
v
elet
featur
es
The
ablation
study
,
detailed
in
T
able
3
and
illustrated
in
Figure
3(b),
systematically
deconstructs
the
architecture.
This
visualization
highlights
ho
w
combining
ResNet
and
transformer
modules
yields
a
dramatic
performance
increase
compared
to
standalone
congurations.
The
training
dynamics
and
o
v
erall
stability
of
these
congurations
are
further
documented
in
Figure
4.
Specically
,
the
R
OC
curv
e
comparison
is
sho
wn
in
Figure
4(a),
while
the
training
and
v
alidation
loss
curv
es
are
pro
vided
in
Figure
4(b).
The
standalone
ResNet-only
and
transformer
-only
models
sho
w
respectable
b
ut
limited
perf
ormance.
Combining
them
in
the
R
T
-Net
model
yields
a
dramatic
performance
increase,
demonstrating
a
po
werful
syn-
er
gy
where
ResNet
e
xtracts
local
features
which
the
transformer
conte
xtualizes.
While
their
o
v
erall
A
UC
and
F1-scores
are
statistically
indistinguishable
(
p
>
0
.
05
),
a
crucial
trade-of
f
emer
ges.
The
inclusion
of
the
w
a
v
elet
stream
in
R
WT
-Net
leads
to
a
statistically
signicant
increase
in
sensiti
vity
(0.8964
vs.
0.8716,
p=0.0039).
This
comes
at
the
cost
of
a
small
b
ut
statistically
signicant
decrease
i
n
specicity
(0.9629
vs.
0.9728,
p=0.0012).
This
trade-of
f
is
highly
desirable
for
a
clinical
screening
tool,
where
prioritizing
the
detec-
tion
of
true
cases
(high
sensiti
vity)
is
more
critical
than
minimizing
f
alse
alarms.
T
able
3.
Ablation
study
results
(mean
±
std)
Model
conguration
A
UC
F1-score
(L
VH)
Sensiti
vity
ResNet
only
0.9423
±
0.0039
0.7834
±
0.0129
0.7427
±
0.0168
T
ransformer
only
0.9416
±
0.0048
0.7747
±
0.0125
0.7489
±
0.0313
R
T
-Net
(ResNet+transformer)
0.9865
±
0.0022
0.8771
±
0.0110
0.8716
±
0.0188
R
WT
-Net
(full
model)
0.9868
±
0.0020
0.8725
±
0.0154
0.8964
±
0.0292
3.3.
P
erf
ormance
analysis
and
inter
pr
etability
The
training
process,
as
visualized
through
the
loss
curv
es
in
Figure
4(b),
sho
ws
st
able
con
v
er
gence
without
signicant
o
v
ertting.
T
o
enhance
clinical
trust
and
pro
vide
insight
into
the
model’
s
decision-making
process,
a
critical
aspect
of
medical
AI
[21],
we
emplo
yed
Grad-CAM
[22].
As
sho
wn
in
Figure
5,
the
heatmaps
o
v
erlaid
on
four
distinct
ECG
leads
(I,
II,
V1,
V5)
visualize
the
re
gions
the
model
deems
most
important
for
its
prediction.
The
high-intensity
areas
(yello
w)
consistently
align
with
the
QRS
comple
x
es
across
all
leads,
suggesting
it
has
learned
to
focus
on
v
entricular
depolarization
the
se
gment
of
the
ECG
most
af
fected
by
L
VH.
(a)
(b)
Figure
4.
Model
performance
analysis:
(a)
R
OC
curv
e
comparison
and
(b)
training
and
v
alidation
loss
curv
es
R
WT
-Net:
A
hybrid
ResNet-wavelet-tr
ansformer
for
early
detection
of
left
ventricular
(Hoang
Huu
T
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Figure
5.
Model
interpretability
using
Grad-CAM
for
a
representati
v
e
L
VH
case
(ID:
3289),
sho
wing
attention
on
QRS
comple
x
es
3.4.
Comparison
with
state-of-the-art
T
able
4
pro
vides
a
detailed
comparison
of
R
WT
-Net’
s
performance
ag
ainst
pre
viously
published
re-
sults
for
L
VH
det
ection.
While
direct
comparisons
are
challenging
due
to
dif
ferences
in
datasets,
v
alidation
protocols,
and
patient
populations,
our
proposed
model
demonstrates
a
superior
performance
prole,
particu-
larly
in
A
UC.
R
WT
-Net’
s
high
sensiti
vity
and
rob
ust
v
alidation
on
a
lar
ge
dataset
position
it
as
a
state-of-the-art
solution.
The
performance
of
traditional
criteria
lik
e
Sok
olo
w-L
yon
is
included
to
highlight
the
signicant
leap
in
diagnostic
capability
of
fered
by
machine
learning
approaches.
T
able
4.
Detailed
comparison
with
state-of-the-art
methods
for
L
VH
detection
Study
Model/criterion
A
UC
Sensiti
vity
Specicity
Accurac
y
R
WT
-Net
(this
w
ork)
ResNet-wa
v
elet-
transf
ormer
0.9868
±
0.0020
0.8964
±
0.0292
0.9629
±
0.0109
0.9502
±
0.0062
Liu
et
al
.
[5]
AI-enabled
model
0.89
Not
reported
(NR)
NR
NR
Khurshid
et
al
.
[7]
Deep
learning
(L
V
mass
prediction)
0.653
(UKB),
0.621
(MGB)
NR
NR
NR
Zhao
et
al
.
[6]
CNN-LSTM
0.62
(test1),
0.59
(test2)
65–72%
57–71%
NR
Garza-Salazar
et
al
.
[23]
C5.0
decision
tree
NR
79.6%
(train/test),
81.6%
(v
al)
53%
(train/test),
69.3%
(v
al)
71.4%
(train/test),
73.3%
(v
al)
Su
et
al
.
[1]
Sok
olo
w-L
yon
0.54
NR
95%
NR
Casale
et
al
.
[24]
Cornell
NR
52%
93%
NR
Le
vy
et
al
.
[25]
Sok
olo
w-L
yon
NR
6.9%
98.8%
NR
4.
CONCLUSION
This
study
introduced
R
WT
-Net,
a
no
v
el
h
ybrid
deep
learning
model
that
demonstrates
superior
per
-
formance
i
n
detecting
L
VH
from
12-lead
ECGs.
By
systematically
inte
grating
a
ResNet
encoder
,
a
statistical
w
a
v
elet
feature
stream,
and
a
transformer
fusion
module,
our
model
achie
v
es
state-of-the-art
performance
on
the
PTB-XL
dataset.
The
rigorous
patient-strat
ied
cross-v
alidation
protocol
ensures
that
our
reported
results
are
rob
ust
and
generalizable.
The
k
e
y
nding
from
our
ablation
study
is
the
clinical
utility
of
the
w
a
v
elet
features;
while
not
al
w
ays
impro
ving
aggre
g
ate
met
rics
lik
e
F1-score,
the
y
signicantly
boost
the
model’
s
sensiti
vity
,
which
is
paramount
for
an
ef
fecti
v
e
early
screening
tool.
Future
w
ork
should
focus
on
v
alidating
R
WT
-Net
on
di
v
erse,
multi-center
e
xternal
datasets
to
conrm
its
real-w
orld
rob
ustness
and
ensure
its
general-
izability
across
dif
ferent
ethnic
populations.
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data
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of
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study
are
openly
a
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ailable
in
the
PTB-XL
dataset
reposi
tory
at
http://doi.or
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reference
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BIOGRAPHIES
OF
A
UTHORS
Hoang
Huu
T
o
Nguy
en
is
an
emer
ging
researcher
in
the
eld
of
articial
intelligence,
currently
completing
his
studies
at
The
Uni
v
ersity
of
Danang
-
V
ietnam-K
orea
Uni
v
ersity
of
Informa-
tion
and
Communication
T
echnology
(VKU),
V
ietnam.
His
research
is
centered
on
the
intersection
of
deep
learning
and
biotechnology
,
with
a
specic
focus
on
de
v
eloping
no
v
el
algorithms
for
biomedical
time-series
analysis
.
As
the
rst
author
of
this
study
,
he
led
t
he
architectural
design
and
implementa-
tion
of
the
proposed
R
WT
-Net
frame
w
ork.
He
can
be
contacted
at
email:
hoangnht.24ai@vku.udn.vn.
Phuong
Huu
Nghia
Le
is
a
st
udent
at
San
Jacinto
Colle
ge,
T
e
xas
,
where
he
is
pursuing
a
de
gree
as
a
Biomedi
cal
Clinical
Equipment
T
echnician.
His
technical
studies
focus
on
the
princi-
ples
of
medical
de
vice
technology
.
F
or
this
research,
he
contrib
uted
to
the
data
curation,
literature
in
v
estig
ation,
and
aspects
of
the
softw
are
v
alidation.
His
interests
lie
in
the
practical
application
of
technology
in
clinical
en
vironments.
He
can
be
contacted
at
email:
Le.P203416@stu.sanjac.edu.
Lam
Mai
is
a
lecturer
at
The
Uni
v
ersity
of
Danang
-
V
ietnam-K
orea
Uni
v
ersity
of
In-
formation
and
Communication
T
echnology
(VKU),
V
ietnam.
He
recei
v
ed
his
Master’
s
de
gree
from
National
Central
Uni
v
ersity
,
T
aiw
an.
His
research
interests
include
machine
learning
and
pattern
recognition.
He
can
be
contacted
at
email:
mlam@vku.udn.vn.
Nguy
en
Pham
Ho
T
r
ong
is
a
lecturer
in
Information
T
echnology
at
FPT
Uni
v
ersity
,
Da
Nang,
V
i
etnam.
He
earned
his
Mast
er’
s
de
gree
f
rom
Na
tional
Central
Uni
v
ersity
,
T
aiw
an.
His
academic
interests
lie
in
inte
grating
theory
with
real-w
orld
data
applications
to
support
data-dri
v
en
decision-making
and
applied
machine
learning.
He
can
be
contacted
at
email:
nguyenpht@fe.edu.vn.
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OMNIKA
T
elecommun
Comput
El
Control,
V
ol.
24,
No.
1,
February
2026:
142–150
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