Stanford researchers claim to have developed an algorithm that “exceeds the performance of board certified*cardiologists in detecting a wide range of heart arrhythmias from electrocardiograms [ECG] recorded with a single-lead wearable monitor,” according to a*study published in arXiv.
The team used the Zio ***** from iRhythm Tech**logies, a San Francisco, CA startup, which allowed them to gather ECG recordings over a period of up to two weeks. These recordings were run against a computer running a deep learning algorithm that was trained by analyzing almost 30,000 previously gathered and diag**stically assessed ECG recordings. The result is that the system is **w able to spot 14 different types of Cardiac arrhythmias purportedly Better Than the six Stanford Cardiologists that were pitted against it.
Here’s a Stanford video with the researchers that developed the algorithm: