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Abstract 4370080: Detection of indication-relevant and incidental arrhythmias on ambulatory ECG recordings by artificial intelligence compared to ECG technicians

2025· article· en· W4415793438 on OpenAlexaff
Linda Johnson, William F. McIntyre, Grzegorz Jasina, Piotr Zadrozniak, Emma Svennberg, Alexander P. Benz, Søren Zöga Diederichsen, Stefanos Zafieropoulos, Taya V. Glotzer, Agnieszka Grotek-Cuprjak, Stavros Stavrakis, Jeff S. Healey

Bibliographic record

VenueCirculation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicECG Monitoring and Analysis
Canadian institutionsPopulation Health Research InstituteMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSupraventricular tachycardiaAmbulatoryAtrial fibrillationAmbulatory ECGElectrocardiographyImplantable loop recorderVentricular tachycardiaTachycardia

Abstract

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Background: In the DRAI MARTINI study, the DeepRhythmAI (DRAI) algorithm had a superior sensitivity for arrhythmia detection compared to ECG technicians. However, it has not been reported whether the additional arrhythmias that were detected were directly relevant to the indication for ambulatory monitoring or were incidental. Methods: We included n=14,606 patients with 14±10 days of continuous ambulatory ECG that was analysed beat-to-beat by both DRAI and ECG technicians (n=167). In patients monitored for tachyarrhythmia (known or suspected atrial fibrillation (AF), palpitations, or transient ischemic attack or stroke) AF, supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs), ectopic atrial rhythm (EAR), ventricular tachycardia (VT) or idioventricular rhythm (IVR) were considered relevant findings, while 2 nd or 3 rd degree atrioventricular block (AVB) and pauses/asystoles >2.0/3.5s incidental. In patients monitored for bradycardia (syncope or dizziness) any finding of AVB, pause/asystole, VT, and IVR were considered relevant, whereas EAR, SVT and AF incidental. DRAI and technicians were compared to annotations by a panel of three experts, and confidence intervals (CIs) were derived using bootstrapping with 1,000 replications. Results: The sensitivity for both monitoring indications (tachyarrhythmia and bradycardia) was superior for DRAI compared to technicians. In patients monitored for tachyarrhythmia, the sensitivity for relevant arrhythmias was 99.5% (95%CI 98.8-100.0%) for AI vs. 67.9% (95%CI 62.9-71.8%) for technicians. The corresponding rates of arrhythmia detection were 221/1,000 patient-recordings (95%CI 209-234) for AI vs. 142/1000 patient-recordings (95%CI 131-153) for technicians. In patients monitored for bradycardia, the sensitivity for relevant arrhythmias was 99.4% for DRAI vs 54.6% (95%CI 45.3-61.9%) for technicians, and the corresponding rates of arrhythmia detection 115/1,000 patient-recordings (95%CI 104-126) vs 64/1,000 patient-recordings (95%CI 57-71). DRAI also had higher sensitivity for incidental findings, 98.5% (95%CI 96.3-100%) vs 49.2% (95%CI 41.3-56.2%) in patients monitored for tachyarrhythmias and 99.7% (95%CI 99.3-99.9%) vs 77.2% (95%CI 65.8-86.5%) in patients monitored for bradycardia. True positive rates for relevant and incidental findings are shown in Figure 1a-d. Conclusion: Analysis with DRAI has a superior sensitivity compared to technicians both for arrhythmias relevant to the monitoring indication and for incidental findings.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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