Life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia prediction in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy using explainable electrocardiogram-based deep neural networks

The study population were patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, in which an explainable pre-trained deep neural network (FactorECG) was trained for the outcome of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. This network encoded the median beat ECG into 21 factors to generate an ECG using only these factors, allowing to evaluate most characteristics that make up an ECG automatically, in a relatively small dataset. LVAD, left ventricular assist device.