Synthesis of standard 12-lead electrocardiograms using two dimensional generative adversarial network

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This paper proposes a two-dimensional (2D) bidirectional long short-term memory generative adversarial network (GAN) to produce synthetic standard 12-lead ECGs corresponding to four types of signals: left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), left branch bundle block (LBBB), acute myocardial infarction (ACUTMI), and Normal.

• It uses a fully automatic end-to-end process to generate and verify the synthetic ECGs that does not require any visual inspection.
• The proposed model is able to produce synthetic standard 12-lead ECG signals with success rates of 98% for LVH, 93% for LBBB, 79% for ACUTMI, and 59% for Normal.
• Statistical evaluation of the data confirms that the synthetic ECGs are not biased towards or overfitted to the training ECGs, and span a wide range of morphological features.