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Due to the inherent complexity of ECGs and the subtle differences in the ECG waveform, misdiagnosis happens often. At present, the research on automatic CHF detection methods based on machine learning has become a research hotspot. However, the existing research focuses on an intra-patient experimental scheme and lacks the performance evaluation of working under noise, which cannot meet the application requirements. To solve the above issues, we propose a novel method to identify CHF using the ECG-Convolution-Vision Transformer Network (ECVT-Net). The algorithm combines the characteristics of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a Vision Transformer, which can automatically extract high-dimensional abstract features of ECGs with simple pre-processing. In this study, the model reached an accuracy of 98.88% for the inter-patient scheme. Furthermore, we added different degrees of noise to the original ECGs to verify the model\u2019s noise robustness. The model\u2019s performance in the above experiments proved that it could effectively identify CHF ECGs and can work under certain noise.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22093283","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,26]],"date-time":"2022-04-26T02:14:39Z","timestamp":1650939279000},"page":"3283","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Inter-Patient Congestive Heart Failure Detection Using ECG-Convolution-Vision Transformer Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Taotao","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China"},{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Yujuan","family":"Si","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China"},{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Weiyi","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"},{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada"}]},{"given":"Jiaqi","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Yongheng","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China"},{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Gengbo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China"},{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Rongrong","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic and Information Engineering (SEIE), Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519041, China"},{"name":"College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1342","DOI":"10.1002\/ejhf.1858","article-title":"Epidemiology of heart failure","volume":"22","author":"Groenewegen","year":"2020","journal-title":"Eur. 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