A Concept of Expert System for Automated ECG Diagnosis

An expert system (ES) is software that uses a knowledge base of human expertise for problem solving, or clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted. Expert systems are most common in a specific problem domain, and are a traditional application and/or subfield of artificial intelligence (AI). Expert systems may or may not have learning components. One of the fundamental implementation areas is the medical diagnostics, most prominent being the automated ECG diagnostics since the ECG morphology is completely determined. The proposed ES relies on the standard 12-lead ECG set of relevant voltage deflections (amplitudes) and time segments and intervals (durations). Preliminary testing against ECG records promise high accuracy consistent with diagnostic opinions of expert cardiologists.