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Published on: July 20, 2022
Application of artificial intelligence ensemble learning model in early prediction of atrial fibrillation
Cai Wu1, Maxwell Hwang2, Tian-Hsiang Huang3
1Department of Hematology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 1, Shangcheng Road, Yiwu, Zhejiang, China.
Insights
Early detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) is crucial for stroke prevention. This study used P-wave and heart rate variability parameters with artificial intelligence to improve AF diagnosis, achieving 92% accuracy.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
Background:
- Atrial fibrillation (AF) is often asymptomatic during onset, making early detection via electrocardiogram (ECG) challenging.
- Delayed diagnosis and treatment of AF increase the risk of stroke.
- ECGs of individuals with AF may appear normal between episodes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop an improved artificial intelligence model for early atrial fibrillation detection.
- To evaluate the efficacy of combining P-wave morphology and heart rate variability parameters for AF prediction.
- To compare the performance of different artificial intelligence ensemble learning methods for AF diagnosis.
Main Methods:
- Extracted 31 parameters including P-wave morphology and heart rate variability features from ECG data.
- Employed artificial intelligence ensemble learning methods: Bagging, AdaBoost, and Stacking.
- Utilized a hybrid Taguchi-genetic algorithm for accurate Gaussian function fitting in P-wave parameter calculation.
Main Results:
- The Stacking ensemble learning method achieved the highest prediction accuracy (92%).
- Key performance metrics included 88% sensitivity, 96% specificity, and a 0.911 area under the ROC curve.
- The combined parameter approach significantly improved the model's predictive performance.
Conclusions:
- Combining P-wave morphology and heart rate variability parameters enhances AF prediction model accuracy.
- The Stacking ensemble learning method provides superior results for early AF detection.
- This approach holds promise for improving early identification and management of atrial fibrillation.
Background:
Atrial fibrillation is a paroxysmal heart disease without any obvious symptoms for most people during the onset. The electrocardiogram (ECG) at the time other than the onset of this disease is not significantly different from that of normal people, which makes it difficult to detect and diagnose. However, if atrial fibrillation is not detected and treated early, it tends to worsen the condition and increase the possibility of stroke. In this paper, P-wave morphology parameters and heart rate variability feature parameters were simultaneously extracted from the ECG. A total of 31 parameters were used as input variables to perform the modeling of artificial intelligence ensemble learning model.
Results:
This paper applied three artificial intelligence ensemble learning methods, namely Bagging ensemble learning method, AdaBoost ensemble learning method, and Stacking ensemble learning method. The prediction results of these three artificial intelligence ensemble learning methods were compared. As a result of the comparison, the Stacking ensemble learning method combined with various models finally obtained the best prediction effect with the accuracy of 92%, sensitivity of 88%, specificity of 96%, positive predictive value of 95.7%, negative predictive value of 88.9%, F1 score of 0.9231 and area under receiver operating characteristic curve value of 0.911.
Conclusion:
In feature extraction, this paper combined P-wave morphology parameters and heart rate variability parameters as input parameters for model training, and validated the value of the proposed parameters combination for the improvement of the model's predicting effect. In the calculation of the P-wave morphology parameters, the hybrid Taguchi-genetic algorithm was used to obtain more accurate Gaussian function fitting parameters. The prediction model was trained using the Stacking ensemble learning method, so that the model accuracy had better results, which can further improve the early prediction of atrial fibrillation.
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