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Semi-automated Optical Heartbeat Analysis of Small Hearts
Published on: September 16, 2009
Deep learning-based beat-to-beat delineation of heart sounds and fiducial points in seismocardiography
Emil Korsgaard1, Ahmad Agam2, Peter Søgaard2,3,4
1Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Introduction:
The application of deep learning methods in automatic delineation of fiducial points in seismocardiography (SCG) on a beat-to-beat basis provides the possibility of obtaining a novel and comprehensive approach to assess and monitor myocardial mechanics and hemodynamic status. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop an adaptive and data-driven algorithm for automatic delineation of 11 fiducial points in SCG.
Methods:
SCG signals from subjects both with and without known cardiac disease (CD) were included. A semi-automatic annotation pipeline was prepared for effective annotation of fiducial points for each individual cardiac cycle, in which 42,452 individual beats from 198 subjects were annotated. A deep learning model with U-Net architecture was developed to detect 11 fiducial points and predict multiple time intervals in the SCG signal. The evaluation metrics were positive predictive value and sensitivity.
Results:
The median positive predictive value and sensitivity of the algorithm ranged between 0.809 and 1.000 and 0.843 and 0.918 for different fiducial points, respectively.
Conclusion:
A novel algorithm for automatic detection of 11 fiducial points in SCG was developed and tested in subjects both with and without CD.
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