Paperwatch: Atrial Fibrillation and Machine Learning - FantAstrial

In a brilliant Circulation article published last week, Siontis et al. count the ways with which machine learning could help treat atrial fibrillation. As you'll quickly find out, there are a lot of different teams out there trying different things. Atrial fibrillation (abbreviated as AF) is the most common arrhythmia in man. In AF, half of the cardiac chambers (the atria) stop contracting normally and start flailing about. In addition to the increased workload of the remaining cardiac chambers (the ventricles), AF also hugely increases the risk of stroke.