Title
Automated identification of shockable and non-shockable life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias using convolutional neural network.
Abstract
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VFib) are the life-threatening shockable arrhythmias which require immediate attention. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are highly recommended means of immediate treatment of these shockable arrhythmias and to resume spontaneous circulation. However, to increase efficacy of defibrillation by an automated external defibrillator (AED), an accurate distinction of shockable ventricular arrhythmias from non-shockable ones needs to be provided upfront. Therefore, in this work, we have proposed a novel tool for an automated differentiation of shockable and non-shockable ventricular arrhythmias from 2 s electrocardiogram (ECG) segments. Segmented ECGs are processed by an eleven-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) model. Our proposed system was 10-fold cross validated and achieved maximum accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 93.18%, 95.32% and 91.04% respectively. Its high performance indicates that shockable life-threatening arrhythmia can be immediately detected and thus increase the chance of survival while CPR or AED-based support is performed. Our tool can also be seamlessly integrated with an ECG acquisition systems in the intensive care units (ICUs).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.future.2017.08.039
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Automated external defibrillator (AED),ECG signals,Non-shockable,Shockable,Ventricular arrhythmias
Defibrillation,Automated external defibrillator,Ventricular fibrillation,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Internal medicine,Cardiopulmonary resuscitation,Cardiology,Real-time computing,Ventricular tachycardia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
79
P3
0167-739X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
1.04
16
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajendra Acharya U14666296.34
Hamido Fujita22644185.03
Shu Lih Oh353625.57
U. Raghavendra41138.06
Jen Hong Tan527512.93
Muhammad Adam640716.51
Arkadiusz Gertych721130.61
Yuki Hagiwara864129.34