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On the Atrial Fibrillation Detection Performance of ECG-DualNet

Reich, C.; Rohr, M.; Kircher, T.; Hoog Antink, C.

2023-06-04 health informatics
10.1101/2023.06.01.23290822 medRxiv
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Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a severe cardiac arrhythmia affecting a significant amount of the human population [1]. Quick diagnosis and treatment are critical in reducing the risk of severe sequelae such as stroke or heart failure. Rohr et al. [2] recently proposed ECG-DualNet, a neural network for accurate AF detection in single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) data. This short paper reports additional empirical results of ECG-DualNet to gain new insights on AF detection in single-lead ECG data with deep neural networks. We systematically analyze which ingredients of ECG-DualNet are crucial for achieving competitive AF detection results. We also scale the ECG-DualNet architecture to 130M parameters and perform large-scale supervised pre-training, providing additional empirical results. Finally, we provide recommendations for future research toward accurate and robust AF detection.

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