Key result
A support vector machine classification model using ECG/VCG features detected myocardial scar with 89.22% accuracy in cross-validation and 82.07% accuracy across different databases.
Why the study?
Does an ECG/VCG-based machine learning model accurately detect myocardial scar?
Does an ECG/VCG-based machine learning model accurately detect myocardial scar?
A novel machine learning approach using ECG/VCG signal processing can detect myocardial scar with high accuracy, potentially enabling point-of-care screening.
Supports ECG/VCG ML exploration for scar detection; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
In this paper, we address the problem of detecting the presence of a myocardial scar from the standard electrocardiogram (ECG)/vectorcardiogram (VCG) recordings, giving effort to develop a screening system for the early detection of the scar in the point-of-care. Based on the pathophysiological implications of scarred myocardium, which results in disordered electrical conduction, we have implemented four distinct ECG signal processing methodologies in order to obtain a set of features that can capture the presence of the myocardial scar. Two of these methodologies are: 1) the use of a template ECG heartbeat, from records with scar absence coupled with wavelet coherence analysis and 2) the utilization of the VCG are novel approaches for detecting scar presence. Following, the pool of extracted features is utilized to formulate a support vector machine classification model through supervised learning. Feature selection is also employed to remove redundant features and maximize the classifier's performance. The classification experiments using 260 records from three different databases reveal that the proposed system achieves 89.22% accuracy when applying tenfold cross validation, and 82.07% success rate when testing it on databases with different inherent characteristics with similar levels of sensitivity (76%) and specificity (87.5%).
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Dima et al. (2013) studied Myocardial scar (n=260). Support vector machine classification model based on ECG/VCG features was evaluated on Accuracy of myocardial scar detection. A support vector machine classification model using ECG/VCG features detected myocardial scar with 89.22% accuracy in cross-validation and 82.07% accuracy across different databases.
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