A METHOD FOR DETECTING CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE USING NOISY ULTRASHORT ELECTROCARDIOGRAM RECORDINGS

The current study aims at creating an algorithm able to detect Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), using ultrashort (duration of 30 seconds) one-lead ECG recordings. The presented method is designed to allow both electrode and noisy recordings (deriving from a smartwatch) as input. This is achieved by using an Autoencoder neural network, which inspects the quality of each recording. The algorithm's core is a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model, which evaluates each patient's recordings and predicts whether they indicate CAD. Using statistics and combining the models mentioned above, a light, reliable, easy to use predicting system is created, suitable for deployment in a mobile application, which uses a smartwatch as its recording tool.