• Urtnasan Erdenebayar, Hyeonggon Kim, Jong-Uk Park, Dongwon Kang, and Kyoung-Joung Lee.
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University College of Health Science, Wonju, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2019 Feb 25; 34 (7): e64.

BackgroundIn this study, we propose a method for automatically predicting atrial fibrillation (AF) based on convolutional neural network (CNN) using a short-term normal electrocardiogram (ECG) signal.MethodsWe designed a CNN model and optimized it by dropout and normalization. One-dimensional convolution, max-pooling, and fully-connected multiple perceptron were used to analyze the short-term normal ECG. The ECG signal was preprocessed and segmented to train and evaluate the proposed CNN model. The training and test sets consisted of the two AF and one normal dataset from the MIT-BIH database.ResultsThe proposed CNN model for the automatic prediction of AF achieved a high performance with a sensitivity of 98.6%, a specificity of 98.7%, and an accuracy of 98.7%.ConclusionThe results show the possibility of automatically predicting AF based on the CNN model using a short-term normal ECG signal. The proposed CNN model for the automatic prediction of AF can be a helpful tool for the early diagnosis of AF in healthcare fields.

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