A Successful PDR : Moving from Plan to Prototype

This week was a major milestone for our team as we successfully presented our Preliminary Design Review (PDR) to our sponsor, Aventusoft. The presentation was the culmination of weeks of intensive data exploration and planning, and the positive feedback we received has given us a strong mandate to move forward into the implementation phase.A Successful PDR: Moving from Plan to Prototype

Key Accomplishments This Week

Our focus this week was squarely on delivering a professional and technically sound PDR. The main highlights include:

• Successful PDR Presentation: We delivered our formal PDR presentation to our sponsor, liaisons, and faculty coach. The session was a success, and we received valuable feedback confirming that our technical plan, architecture, and project roadmap are aligned with sponsor expectations.

• Finalized Technical Strategy: The PDR process helped us solidify our technical strategy for the coming weeks. We confirmed our plan to begin with a baseline CNN model, tackle class imbalance with a weighted loss function, and benchmark performance using metrics like AUROC and F1-Score.

• Incorporating Sponsor Feedback: We received constructive feedback during the PDR, particularly regarding the need for a robust preprocessing pipeline and a clear plan for model explainability. This guidance has been integrated into our immediate action plan.

Next Steps: Building the Foundation

With a successful PDR now behind us, our efforts this week are geared towards turning our plan into a functional prototype. Our immediate tasks are to:

1.Finalize all PDR documentation based on the feedback and secure sponsor sign-off.

2.Begin the hands-on implementation of our data preprocessing pipeline, including the filtering, normalization, and segmentation modules.

3.Start the development of our baseline model and establish the training loop on the public datasets.

This week was about validating our strategy and earning the confidence of our sponsor. Now, the real engineering work begins, and we are excited to start building the core components of our ECG analysis system.

See you next week!