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The Potential of using Neural Networks in the diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease

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  • Salil Belgal Independent researcher(but done Polygence pod)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58445/rars.779

Keywords:

Convolutional neural networks, Cardiovascular disease, Recurrent neural networks

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally. Early detection and prognosis of these diseases is vital, which is why scientists have turned over to new technologies such as neural networks to speed up the long manual process of identifying key features from both cardiac imaging data and cardiac time-series data that can help doctors predict and diagnose cardiovascular risk. This paper specifically looked at the effectiveness of Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in analyzing echocardiograms and the effectiveness of Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in analyzing electrocardiograms and patient records. This paper also explains the basics on how both types of networks are structured, trained, and evaluated. These basics help to understand the existing studies that this paper analyzes to evaluate the effectiveness of both CNNs and RNNs in the cardiovascular healthcare field. The key statistics from the studies suggest that both RNNs and CNNs have great capabilities in helping doctors find key features and predict cardiovascular risk from both cardiac imaging and time-series data.

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2023-12-04