Patents by Inventor Shuwang Zhou

Shuwang Zhou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250143647
    Abstract: A multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification method based on self-supervised learning relates to the technical field of ECG signal classification. The method includes: processing an original signal through different data augmentation methods, designing an appropriate encoder module, extracting a feature of an ECG signal through a large amount of easily available unlabeled data such that an encoder learns more class information of the ECG signal, fine-tuning the model encoder with a small amount of labeled data for feature optimization, and continuously optimizing a parameter of a feature extractor by training a model such that a generated feature well reflects a structure and information of input data. Through self-supervised learning, the method reduces obstacles caused by performing ECG signal classification through a large amount of expensive manually labeled data, improving the generalization ability of the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicants: Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Yinglong WANG, Wei LIU, Minglei SHU, Pengyao XU, Shuwang ZHOU, Zhaoyang LIU
  • Patent number: 12290386
    Abstract: A multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification method based on self-supervised learning relates to the technical field of ECG signal classification. The method includes: processing an original signal through different data augmentation methods, designing an appropriate encoder module, extracting a feature of an ECG signal through a large amount of easily available unlabeled data such that an encoder learns more class information of the ECG signal, fine-tuning the model encoder with a small amount of labeled data for feature optimization, and continuously optimizing a parameter of a feature extractor by training a model such that a generated feature well reflects a structure and information of input data. Through self-supervised learning, the method reduces obstacles caused by performing ECG signal classification through a large amount of expensive manually labeled data, improving the generalization ability of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Yinglong Wang, Wei Liu, Minglei Shu, Pengyao Xu, Shuwang Zhou, Zhaoyang Liu
  • Patent number: 12279875
    Abstract: An electrocardiograph (ECG) signal detection and positioning method based on weakly supervised learning is provided. A deep learning model mainly includes a multi-scale feature extraction module, a self-attention encoding module, and a classification and positioning module. An extracted original ECG signal is denoised and segmented to obtain a fixed-length pure ECG signal segment. In the convolutionally-connected multi-scale feature extraction module, a channel local attention (CLA) layer is introduced, and a PReLU activation function is used to achieve a better local information extraction capability. The self-attention encoding module is introduced to establish an association between a local feature and a global feature. The classification and positioning module is introduced to output a general location of an abnormal signal. A fusion module enables the model to map a local predicted value onto a global predicted value, and model parameters are trained on a weakly annotated dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Minglei Shu, Pengyao Xu, Shuwang Zhou, Zhaoyang Liu, Kaiwei Li
  • Patent number: 12232890
    Abstract: An electrocardiograph (ECG) signal quality evaluation method based on a multi-scale convolutional and densely connected network is provided. Firstly, an original ECG signal is preprocessed to remove a baseline drift and power line interference. Then, based on a consistency principle of a label determining result and a principle of setting a confidence coefficient, an AlexNet model is trained to mutually correct incorrect labels in a dataset to obtain a final ECG signal fragment for quality classification. Finally, the signal fragment is input into an improved lightweight densely connected quality classification model to classify quality of the ECG signal fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Minglei Shu, Rui Qu, Pengyao Xu, Shuwang Zhou, Zhaoyang Liu
  • Publication number: 20250009306
    Abstract: An electrocardiograph (ECG) signal quality evaluation method based on a multi-scale convolutional and densely connected network is provided. Firstly, an original ECG signal is preprocessed to remove a baseline drift and power line interference. Then, based on a consistency principle of a label determining result and a principle of setting a confidence coefficient, an AlexNet model is trained to mutually correct incorrect labels in a dataset to obtain a final ECG signal fragment for quality classification. Finally, the signal fragment is input into an improved lightweight densely connected quality classification model to classify quality of the ECG signal fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicants: Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Minglei SHU, Rui QU, Pengyao XU, Shuwang ZHOU, Zhaoyang LIU
  • Publication number: 20240378921
    Abstract: A facial expression-based detection method for deepfake by generative artificial intelligence (AI) constructs an AIR-Face facial dataset for generative AI-created face detection training, and uses an untrained information feature space for real and fake classification. Nearest linear detection is performed in this space to significantly improve the generalization ability of detecting fake images, especially those created by new methods such as diffusion models or autoregressive models. The detection method improves the performance of extracting features of generative AI-created faces through phased trainings, and detects generative AI-created faces through the feature space. Compared with other methods, the detection method scientifically and effectively improves the accuracy of generative AI-created face recognition, and fully mines the potential semantic information of generative AI-created faces through phased trainings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences)
    Inventors: Minglei SHU, Zhenyu LIU, Ruixia LIU, Chao CHEN, Ke SHAN, Zhaoyang LIU, Shuwang ZHOU, Pengyao XU, Tianlei GAO
  • Publication number: 20240350066
    Abstract: An electrocardiograph (ECG) signal detection and positioning method based on weakly supervised learning is provided. A deep learning model mainly includes a multi-scale feature extraction module, a self-attention encoding module, and a classification and positioning module. An extracted original ECG signal is denoised and segmented to obtain a fixed-length pure ECG signal segment. In the convolutionally-connected multi-scale feature extraction module, a channel local attention (CLA) layer is introduced, and a PReLU activation function is used to achieve a better local information extraction capability. The self-attention encoding module is introduced to establish an association between a local feature and a global feature. The classification and positioning module is introduced to output a general location of an abnormal signal. A fusion module enables the model to map a local predicted value onto a global predicted value, and model parameters are trained on a weakly annotated dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Minglei SHU, Kaiwei LI, Shuwang ZHOU, Pengyao XU, Zhaoyang LIU
  • Publication number: 20240324936
    Abstract: An electrocardiograph (ECG) signal enhancement method based on a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) effectively enhances a capability of a generator model for understanding and expressing input data by using a multi-branch structure of bi-directional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) neural networks with different quantities of hidden neurons, and stitching outputs of last time steps of forward propagation of the different BiLSTM networks. A new ECG signal enhancement module EEA-Net is proposed, which uses an adaptive convolutional layer to dynamically adjust a size of a convolution kernel, making the model more flexible in processing input sequences of different lengths. In addition, the model uses an adaptive average pooling layer to perform weighted average pooling on the input data to better capture important information of the input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicants: Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Yinglong WANG, Tiantian DU, Minglei SHU, Zhaoyang LIU, Shuwang ZHOU, Pengyao XU
  • Patent number: 11967180
    Abstract: A dynamic facial expression recognition (FER) method based on a Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory improves a feature extraction effect of an expression video through multi-feature fusion, and deeply learns an imbalanced dynamic expression feature by using the DS theory, multi-branch convolution, and an attention mechanism. Compared with other methods, the dynamic FER method scientifically and effectively reduces an impact of sample imbalance on expression recognition, fully utilizes a spatio-temporal feature to mine potential semantic information of the video expression to perform expression classification, thereby improving reliability and accuracy and meeting a demand for the expression recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (SHANDONG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES), SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER IN JINAN)
    Inventors: Minglei Shu, Zhenyu Liu, Zhaoyang Liu, Shuwang Zhou, Pengyao Xu