Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology
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Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol · Dec 2020
Artificial Intelligence-Electrocardiography to Predict Incident Atrial Fibrillation: A Population-Based Study.
An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm applied to electrocardiography during sinus rhythm has recently been shown to detect concurrent episodic atrial fibrillation (AF). We sought to characterize the value of AI-enabled electrocardiography (AI-ECG) as a predictor of future AF and assess its performance compared with the CHARGE-AF score (Cohorts for Aging and Research in Genomic Epidemiology-AF) in a population-based sample. ⋯ In the present study, both the AI-ECG AF model output and CHARGE-AF score independently predicted incident AF. The AI-ECG may offer a means to assess risk with a single test and without requiring manual or automated clinical data abstraction.