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Interactive progressive-based approach to aid the human interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram
  The 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an important diagnostic support tool but is frequently incorrectly interpreted. This is partly due to the fact that even expert clinicians can impulsively provide a diagnosis based on first impression/intuition. It is therefore imperative to optimise how physicians interpret the 12-lead ECG. Hence, a set of interactive questions and prompts has been developed to guide an observer through a series of tasks when interpreting an ECG. This has been named `Interactive Progressive based Interpretation' (IPI). Using this model, the 12-lead ECG is segmented into five parts and presented over five web based user interfaces. The IPI model was implemented using emerging web technologies such as HTML5. Thus, a new model has been proposed to aid ECG interpretation where observers systematically and sequentially interpret the 12-lead ECG as a series of sub-tasks. We hypothesize that this will reduce the number of errors and increase diagnostic accuracy.

  • Date:

    31 December 2015

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    IEEE

  • DOI:

    10.1109/cic.2015.7408620

  • Cross Ref:

    10.1109/cic.2015.7408620

  • Funders:

    Ulster University

Citation

Cairns, A. W., Bond, R. R., Finlay, D. D., Breen, C. J., Guldenring, D., Gaffney, R., …Peace, A. J. (2015). Interactive progressive-based approach to aid the human interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram. In 2015 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC). https://doi.org/10.1109/cic.2015.7408620

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Keywords

12-lead electrocardiogram, interactive progressive based interpretation, HTML5, ECG interpretation, human interpretation, diagnostic accuracy, Web based user interfaces

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