用Transformer分析心电图重识别风险,看清关键波段贡献度。
TransECG: Leveraging Transformers for Explainable ECG Re-identification Risk Analysis
- 基于视觉变压器捕捉心电图中影响重识别的关键片段
- 在4个真实数据集上实现88.6%~89.9%的重识别准确率
- 揭示R波、P-R间期等波段对性别/年龄识别的贡献比例
心电图(ECG)在临床诊断、健康监测和生物识别中广泛应用,但其包含独特生物特征,跨机构共享时存在重识别隐私风险。现有深度学习模型虽准确率高,但缺乏可解释性,难以理解其如何识别个体。本文提出TransECG,一种基于视觉变压器(ViT)的方法,利用注意力机制定位与性别、年龄及身份重识别相关的关键心电图段。实验在4个真实数据集、87名参与者上验证,性别、年龄和身份重识别准确率分别达89.9%、89.9%和88.6%。分析发现,性别分类中R波贡献58.29%注意力,年龄分类中P-R间期贡献46.29%。该方法结合高精度与可解释性,为安全可信的医疗数据共享提供支持。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are widely shared across multiple clinical applications for diagnosis, health monitoring, and biometric authentication. While valuable for healthcare, they also carry unique biometric identifiers that pose privacy risks, especially when ECG data shared across multiple entities. These risks are amplified in shared environments, where re-identification threats can compromise patient privacy. Existing deep learning re-identification models prioritize accuracy but lack explainability, making it challenging to understand how the unique biometric characteristics encoded within ECG signals are recognized and utilized for identification. Without these insights, despite high accuracy, developing secure and trustable ECG data-sharing frameworks remains difficult, especially in diverse, multi-source environments. In this work, we introduce TransECG, a Vision Transformer (ViT)-based method that uses attention mechanisms to pinpoint critical ECG segments associated with re-identification tasks like gender, age, and participant ID. Our approach demonstrates high accuracy (89.9% for gender, 89.9% for age, and 88.6% for ID re-identification) across four real-world datasets with 87 participants. Importantly, we provide key insights into ECG components such as the R-wave, QRS complex, and P-Q interval in re-identification. For example, in the gender classification, the R wave contributed 58.29% to the model's attention, while in the age classification, the P-R interval contributed 46.29%. By combining high predictive performance with enhanced explainability, TransECG provides a robust solution for privacy-conscious ECG data sharing, supporting the development of secure and trusted healthcare data environment.
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