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ArticleEuropace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology2023

Identification of Brugada syndrome based on P-wave features: an artificial intelligence-based approach.

Beatrice Zanchi, Francesca Dalia Faraci, Ali Gharaviri, Marco Bergonti, Tomas Monga, Angelo Auricchio, Giulio Conte

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Article in Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Brugada syndrome.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  5. Cardiac Channelopathies: Clinical Diagnosis and Promising Therapeutics.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025
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  8. aTrial arrhythmias in inhEriTed aRrhythmIa Syndromes: results from the TETRIS study.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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  10. The role for ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring in the diagnosis and prognostication of Brugada syndrome: a sub-study of the Rare Arrhythmia Syndrome Evaluation (RASE) Brugada study.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Beatrice ZanchiDepartment of Innovative Technologies, Institute of Digital Technologies for Personalized Healthcare of SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0009-3017-0645
Francesca Dalia FaraciDepartment of Innovative Technologies, Institute of Digital Technologies for Personalized Healthcare of SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8720-1256
Ali GharaviriCenter for Computational Medicine in Cardiology, USI, via La Santa 1, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1803-8237
Marco BergontiDivision of Cardiology, Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, via Tesserete 64, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9864-1938
Tomas MongaFaculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0000-8551-5617
Angelo AuricchioCenter for Computational Medicine in Cardiology, USI, via La Santa 1, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2116-6993
Giulio ConteCenter for Computational Medicine in Cardiology, USI, via La Santa 1, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-2248-3456
Swiss Institute for Regenerative Medicine · CHUniversity of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland · CHEnte Ospedaliero Cantonale · CHUniversità della Svizzera italiana · CH

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation PZ00P3_180055
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsBrugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited disease associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias. Recent studies have reported the presence of an altered atrial phenotype characterized by abnormal P-wave parameters. The aim of this study was to identify BrS based exclusively on P-wave features through an artificial intelligence (AI)-based model. METHODS AND

resultsContinuous 5 min 12-lead ECG recordings were obtained in sinus rhythm from (i) patients with spontaneous or ajmaline-induced BrS and no history of AF and (ii) subjects with suspected BrS and negative ajmaline challenge. The recorded ECG signals were processed and divided into epochs of 15 s each. Within these epochs, P-waves were first identified and then averaged. From the averaged P-waves, a total of 67 different features considered relevant to the classification task were extracted. These features were then used to train nine different AI-based supervised classifiers. A total of 2228 averaged P-wave observations, resulting from the analysis of 33 420 P-waves, were obtained from 123 patients (79 BrS+ and 44 BrS-). Averaged P-waves were divided using a patient-wise split, allocating 80% for training and 20% for testing, ensuring data integrity and reducing biases in AI-based model training. The BrS+ patients presented with longer P-wave duration (136 ms vs. 124 ms, P < 0.001) and higher terminal force in lead V1 (2.5 au vs. 1.7 au, P < 0.01) compared with BrS- subjects. Among classifiers, AdaBoost model had the highest values of performance for all the considered metrics, reaching an accuracy of over 81% (sensitivity 86%, specificity 73%).

conclusionAn AI machine-learning model is able to identify patients with BrS based only on P-wave characteristics. These findings confirm the presence of an atrial hallmark and open new horizons for AI-guided BrS diagnosis.

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Atrial FibrillationBrugada SyndromeAjmalineArtificial IntelligenceElectrocardiographyHumansAjmalineArtificial intelligenceBrugada syndromeElectrocardiogramMachine learningP-wave

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