Predicting transthoracic defibrillation shocks outcome in the cardioversion of atrial fibrillation employing support vector machines

In this work, we use support vector machines (SVM) to predict if a defibrillation shock is likely to be successful or not in the cardioversion of persistent AF patients. The ECG signals of 47 patients elected for electrical cardioversion treatment were collected at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast city, NI-UK.