Why the study?
AI-aided diagnosis for cardiac diseases has been limited by a lack of large-scale datasets with multiple arrhythmias and ACS-related diseases, and whether AI-based ECG diagnosis improves cardiologist performance was unknown.
Does a deep learning model improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency for cardiologists interpreting 12-lead ECGs for arrhythmias and ACS-related diseases?
Does a deep learning model improve diagnostic accuracy and efficiency for cardiologists interpreting 12-lead ECGs for arrhythmias and ACS-related diseases?
A deep learning model for 12-lead ECG interpretation demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy (AUC 0.961) and significantly improved both the accuracy and efficiency of cardiologists in clinical scenarios.
Large ECG dataset enables AI training for arrhythmias and ACS; leaves open whether models assist cardiologists in practice.
Currently, due to lack of large-scale datasets containing multiple arrhythmias and acute coronary syndrome-related diseases, AI-aided diagnosis for cardiac diseases is limited in clinical scenarios. Whether AI-based ECG diagnosis can assist cardiologists to improve performance has not been reported. We constructed a large-scale dataset containing multiple high-regional-incidence arrhythmias and ACS-related diseases, including 162,622 12-lead ECGs collected between January 2018 and March 2021. We presented a deep learning model for clinical ECG diagnosis of multiple cardiac diseases. Results show that our model for diagnosing 15 cardiac abnormalities achieved 88.216% accuracy, and its average AUC ROC score reached 0.961. On the board-certified re-annotated dataset, its performance surpasses that of cardiologists in non-reference group. Moreover, with aid of labels given by our model, accuracy and efficiency for cardiologist increased by 13.5% and 69.9% than non-reference group. Our approach provides solutions for AI-aided diagnosis systems of cardiac diseases in applications.
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