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New system for digital to analog transformation and reconstruction of 12-lead ECGs.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: We describe initial validation of a new system for digital to analog conversion (DAC) and reconstruction of 12-lead ECGs. The system utilizes an open and optimized software format with a commensurately optimized DAC hardware configuration to accurately reproduce, from digital files, the original analog electrocardiographic signals of previously instrumented patients. By doing so, the system also ultimately allows for transmission of data collected on one manufacturer's 12-lead ECG hardware/software into that of any other. MATERIALS AND METHODS: To initially validate the system, we compared original and post-DAC re-digitized 12-lead ECG data files (?5-minutes long) in two types of validation studies in 10 patients. The first type quantitatively compared the total waveform voltage differences between the original and re-digitized data while the second type qualitatively compared the automated electrocardiographic diagnostic statements generated by the original versus re-digitized data. RESULTS: The grand-averaged difference in root mean squared voltage between the original and re-digitized data was 20.8 µV per channel when re-digitization involved the same manufacturer's analog to digital converter (ADC) as the original digitization, and 28.4 µV per channel when it involved a different manufacturer's ADC. Automated diagnostic statements generated by the original versus reconstructed data did not differ when using the diagnostic algorithm from the same manufacturer on whose device the original data were collected, and differed only slightly for just 1 of 10 patients when using a third-party diagnostic algorithm throughout. CONCLUSION: Original analog 12-lead ECG signals can be reconstructed from digital data files with accuracy sufficient for clinical use. Such reconstructions can readily enable automated second opinions for difficult-to-interpret 12-lead ECGs, either locally or remotely through the use of dedicated or cloud-based servers.

SUBMITTER: Kothadia R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623879 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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New system for digital to analog transformation and reconstruction of 12-lead ECGs.

Kothadia Roshni R Kulecz Walter B WB Kofman Igor S IS Black Adam J AJ Grier James W JW Schlegel Todd T TT

PloS one 20130411 4

<h4>Introduction</h4>We describe initial validation of a new system for digital to analog conversion (DAC) and reconstruction of 12-lead ECGs. The system utilizes an open and optimized software format with a commensurately optimized DAC hardware configuration to accurately reproduce, from digital files, the original analog electrocardiographic signals of previously instrumented patients. By doing so, the system also ultimately allows for transmission of data collected on one manufacturer's 12-le ...[more]

PMID: 23613787

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New system for digital to analog transformation and reconstruction of 12-lead ECGs.

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New system for digital to analog transformation and reconstruction of 12-lead ECGs.

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