Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Machine learning-based prediction of acute coronary syndrome using only the pre-hospital 12-lead electrocardiogram

  • Salah Al-Zaiti,
  • Lucas Besomi,
  • Zeineb Bouzid,
  • Ziad Faramand,
  • Stephanie Frisch,
  • Christian Martin-Gill,
  • Richard Gregg,
  • Samir Saba,
  • Clifton Callaway,
  • Ervin Sejdić

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17804-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Diagnosing a heart attack requires excessive testing and prolonged observation, which frequently requires hospital admission. Here the authors report a machine learning-based system based exclusively on ECG data that can help clinicians identify 37% more heart attacks during initial screening.