An automated seismocardiogram-based algorithm detected atrial fibrillation with an average true positive rate of 99.9 and a true negative rate of 96.4.
Does an automated detection algorithm based on seismocardiograms accurately detect atrial fibrillation?
A novel SCG-based algorithm demonstrates high accuracy for automated detection of atrial fibrillation without requiring complementary ECG.
In this paper, a novel method to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) from a seismocardiogram (SCG) is presented. The proposed method is based on linear classification of the spectral entropy and a heart rate variability index computed from the SCG. The performance of the developed algorithm is demonstrated on data gathered from 13 patients in clinical setting. After motion artifact removal, in total 119 min of AFib data and 126 min of sinus rhythm data were considered for automated AFib detection. No other arrhythmias were considered in this study. The proposed algorithm requires no direct heartbeat peak detection from the SCG data, which makes it tolerant against interpersonal variations in the SCG morphology, and noise. Furthermore, the proposed method relies solely on the SCG and needs no complementary electrocardiography to be functional. For the considered data, the detection method performs well even on relatively low quality SCG signals. Using a majority voting scheme that takes five randomly selected segments from a signal and classifies these segments using the proposed algorithm, we obtained an average true positive rate of 99.9 and an average true negative rate of 96.4 for detecting AFib in leave-one-out cross-validation. This paper facilitates adoption of microelectromechanical sensor based heart monitoring devices for arrhythmia detection.
Hurnanen et al. (Fri,) conducted a other in Atrial fibrillation (n=13). Automated seismocardiogram-based detection algorithm was evaluated on Detection of atrial fibrillation. An automated seismocardiogram-based algorithm detected atrial fibrillation with an average true positive rate of 99.9 and a true negative rate of 96.4.
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