Key result
Android-based wearable system achieves 100% accuracy in rhythm classification vs standard ECG.
Why the study?
Does a portable Android-based heart monitoring system accurately classify heart rhythms and detect stress compared to standard clinical methods in healthy individuals?
Does a portable Android-based heart monitoring system accurately classify heart rhythms and detect stress compared to standard clinical methods in healthy individuals?
Effect estimate: 100% accuracy
A low-cost, Android-based smartphone system paired with a consumer wearable device demonstrates high accuracy for real-time arrhythmia detection and stress evaluation.
May enable low-cost rhythm monitoring in healthy adults; extends consumer sensor validation but requires patient cohort confirmation.
The current trend in health monitoring systems is to move from the hospital to portable personal devices. This work shows how consumer devices like heart rate monitors can be used not only for applications in sports, but also for medical research and diagnostic purposes. The goal pursued by our group was to develop a simple, accurate, and inexpensive system that would use a few pieces of data acquired by the heart rate monitor and process them on a smartphone to (i) provide detailed test reports about the user's health state; (ii) store report records; (iii) generate emergency calls or SMSs; and (iv) connect to a remote telemedicine portal to relay the data to an online database. The system developed by our team uses sophisticated algorithms to detect stress states, detect and classify arrhythmia events, and calculate energy consumption. It is suitable for use by elderly subjects and by patients with heart disease (e.g., those recovering from myocardial infarction) or neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease. Easy, immediate, and economical remote health control can therefore be achieved without the need for expensive hospital equipment, using only portable consumer devices.
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Pierleoni et al. (2014) studied Healthy individuals (validation study) (n=45). Android-based heart monitoring system vs. Standard ECG, validated questionnaires, or existing commercial algorithms was evaluated on Accuracy of sinus rhythm classification and sinus arrhythmia detection compared to standard ECG (100% accuracy). The Android-based heart monitoring system achieved 100% accuracy in sinus rhythm classification and arrhythmia detection compared to standard ECG, while also accurately identifying stress states.
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