Man vs machine: Performance of manual vs automated electrocardiogram analysis for predicting the chamber of origin of idiopathic ventricular arrhythmia.
Babken AsatryanRamin EbrahimiIvo StrebelPeter M van DamMichael KühneSven KnechtFlorian SpiesRoger AbächerliPatrick BadertscherNikola KozhuharovIvan ZeljkovicBeat SchaerStefan OsswaldChristian SticherlingTobias ReichlinPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2019)
While the manual ECG analysis of the standard 12-lead ECG by both electrophysiologists and EP fellows correctly identified the chamber of VA origin in around 75% of cases, an automated vectorcardiographic computer algorithm achieved an accuracy of 89% with clinically acceptable diagnostic parameters.