Two-stage deep learning pipeline that localizes premature ventricular contraction (PVC) beats directly from raw, unsegmented ECG signal, without relying on hand-crafted features or pre-existing R-peak annotations. An encoder-decoder network first localizes the R-peak of every heartbeat (normal or anomalous); the resulting R-peak positions are then passed to CardioIncNet, a 1D InceptionTime-based classifier, which delineates each beat as healthy or PVC. Evaluated with both single-dataset and cross-dataset protocols across three public ECG databases, the pipeline reached F1 scores above 0.99 (single-dataset) and 0.979 (cross-dataset) for R-peak localization, and above 0.96 and 0.85 respectively for PVC beat classification.

End-to-end deep learning model for detecting fetal QRS complexes directly from non-invasive abdominal ECG (aECG) signals, without requiring a separate reference maternal ECG or heavy hand-crafted feature engineering. The model adopts a ResNet architecture built from 1-D octave convolutions (OctConv), which factorize feature maps into high- and low-frequency components to capture multiple temporal frequency scales while reducing memory and compute cost relative to a standard 1-D ResNet; the resulting feature-importance weighting also highlights the signal regions most relevant to each detection. Evaluated on the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2013 fetal ECG database (with added Gaussian and motion-artifact noise to mimic real-world recording conditions), the model reached an F1 score of 91.1% while cutting computation by more than 50% for less than a 2% drop in performance versus a non-octave ResNet baseline.