Screening for Chagas disease from the electrocardiogram using a deep neural network.
Carl JidlingDaniel GedonThomas B SchönClaudia Di Lorenzo OliveiraClareci Silva CardosoAriela Mota FerreiraLuana GiattiSandhi Maria BarretoEster C SabinoAntonio L P RibeiroAntonio Luiz P RibeiroPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2023)
The neural network detects chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) from ECG-with weaker performance for early-stage cases. Future work should focus on curating large higher-quality datasets. The CODE dataset, our largest development dataset includes self-reported and therefore less reliable labels, limiting performance for non-CCC patients. Our findings can improve ChD detection and treatment, particularly in high-prevalence areas.