Machine learning in the electrocardiogram

Ana Minchole*, Julia Camps, Aurore Lyon, Blanca Rodriguez

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The electrocardiogram is the most widely used diagnostic tool that records the electrical activity of the heart and, therefore, its use for identifying markers for early diagnosis and detection is of paramount importance. In the last years, the huge increase of electronic health records containing a systematised collection of different type of digitalised medical data, together with new tools to analyse this large amount of data in an efficient way have re-emerged the field of machine learning in healthcare innovation. This review describes the most recent machine learning-based systems applied to the electrocardiogram as well as pros and cons in the use of these techniques. Machine learning, including deep learning, have shown to be powerful tools for aiding clinicians in patient screening and risk stratification tasks. However, they do not provide the physiological basis of classification outcomes. Computational modelling and simulation can help in the interpretation and understanding of key physiologically meaningful ECG biomarkers extracted from machine learning techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S61-S64
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Electrocardiology
Volume57
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2019

Keywords

  • CLASSIFICATION
  • Classification

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