Conference
- Session
- 00:18 - 00:18
- Duration: 21 mins
- Publication date: 18 Sep 2014
- Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
- Part of event Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Low-Resource Settings 2014 (AHT 2014)
About the session
Cardiac monitoring is an important application of mobile-monitoring systems. Such systems typically require experts to label electrocardiogram (ECG) data; however, large inter- and intra-expert variation limits the reliability and accuracy of diagnosis. This paper presents a process of integrating the mobile end of the system with a back-end annotation system for reviewing and scoring the quality of an ECG signal. This process serves as a platform for remote cardiac health monitoring and diagnosis. Furthermore, a "crowd-sourcing" methodology was used to provide an adjudication of ECG annotations from a set of "experts", comprising human trainees and automated algorithms. The speaker shows that this can provide diagnoses with equivalent accuracy to that of experts, at a substantially reduced cost.