Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Automatic diagnosis of the 12-lead ECG using a deep neural network

  • Antônio H. Ribeiro,
  • Manoel Horta Ribeiro,
  • Gabriela M. M. Paixão,
  • Derick M. Oliveira,
  • Paulo R. Gomes,
  • Jéssica A. Canazart,
  • Milton P. S. Ferreira,
  • Carl R. Andersson,
  • Peter W. Macfarlane,
  • Wagner Meira Jr.,
  • Thomas B. Schön,
  • Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15432-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The role of automatic electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis in clinical practice is limited by the accuracy of existing models. In that context, the authors present a Deep Neural Network (DNN) that recognizes different abnormalities in ECG recordings which matches or outperform cardiology and emergency resident medical doctors.