ECG-Image-Kit: A Synthetic Image Generation Toolbox to Facilitate Deep Learning-Based Electrocardiogram Digitization

Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of mortality globally, and electrocardiograms (ECGs) are crucial for diagnosing them. Traditionally, ECGs are printed on paper. However, these printouts, even when scanned, are incompatible with advanced ECG diagnosis software that require time-series data. Digitizing ECG images is vital for training machine learning models in ECG diagnosis and to leverage the extensive global archives collected over decades. Deep learning models for image processing are promising in this regard, although the lack of clinical ECG …

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