Abstract
Ventricular arrhythmias are the primary arrhyth- mias that cause sudden cardiac death. In current clinical and preclinical research, the discovery of new therapies and their translation is hampered by the lack of consistency in diagnostic criteria for distinguishing between ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF). This study develops a new set of features, similarity maps, for discrimination between VT and VF using deep neural network architectures. The similarity maps are designed to capture the similarity and the regularity within an ECG trace. Our experiments show that the similarity maps lead to a substantial improvement in distinguishing VT and VF.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'22) |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 1 Apr 2022 |