Interactive progressive-based approach to aid the human interpretation of the 12-lead Electrocardiogram

Cairns, Andrew W.; Bond, Raymond R.; Finlay, Dewar D.; Breen, Cathal J.; Guldenring, Daniel; Gaffney, Robert; Henn, Pat; Peace, Aaron J.

Abstract

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.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2015 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC)
• Start Date: Sep 6, 2015
• End Date: Sep 9, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Feb 18, 2016
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Nov 3, 2022
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Series ISSN: 2325-887X
• Book Title: 2015 Computing in Cardiology Conference (CinC)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/cic.2015.7408620
• Keywords: 12-lead electrocardiogram, interactive progressive based interpretation, HTML5, ECG interpretation, human interpretation, diagnostic accuracy, Web based user interfaces
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2947961
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7408620