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The Crucial Role of Image Quality in AI-enabled ECG Digitization and Interpretation of Occlusion Myocardial Infarction

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Overview:

The effectiveness of AI-ECG tools depends on the quality of input data—poor ECG image quality can lead to critical misdiagnoses. This case shows how a low-quality scan triggered a false STEMI alert, later corrected with improved digitization. It underscores the importance of ensuring minimally acceptable image quality, as even advanced tools can’t fully correct severe distortions.

Published In: Journal of Electrocardiology

Date of Publication: January 10, 2025

Highlights

  • Acceptable digitization of ECG images requires a minimal quality of input
  • Contemporary digitization by the PMcardio digitization software can correct many, but not all, distortions and deletions
  • Proportionality between QRS and ST/T is crucial; truncation of any part of the QRS or ST/T distorts these proportions.


Authors: Robert Herman, MD, PhD; Stephen W. Smith, MD

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PMcardio is CE-marked as class IIb medical device under EU MDR and only certified for marketing in the European Union and the United Kingdom. PMcardio technology has not yet been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing in the USA. Not all modules of the PMcardio platform may be available in your region. Prior to use, reference the Instructions for Use, for more detailed information on Indications, Contraindications, Warnings, Precautions and Adverse Events.

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