Polyphonic sonification of electrocardiography signals for diagnosis of cardiac pathologies.

ABSTRACT: Electrocardiography (ECG) data are multidimensional temporal data with ubiquitous applications in the clinic. Conventionally, these data are presented visually. It is presently unclear to what degree data sonification (auditory display), can enable the detection of clinically relevant cardiac pathologies in ECG data. In this study, we introduce a method for polyphonic sonification of ECG data, whereby different ECG channels are simultaneously represented by sound of different pitch. We retrospectively applied this method to 12 samples from a publicly available ECG database. We and colleagues from our professional environment then analyzed these data in a blinded way. Based on these analyses, we found that the sonification technique can be intuitively understood after a short training sessi

SUBMITTER: Kather JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5357951 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature