An aortic dissection, a particular aortic pathology, occurs when blood pushes through a tear between the layers of the aorta and forms a so-called false lumen. Aortic dissection has a low incidence compared to other diseases, but a relatively high mortality that increases with disease progression. An early identification and treatment increases patients’ chances of survival. State-of-the-art medical imaging techniques have several disadvantages; therefore, we propose the detection of aortic dissections through their signatures in impedance cardiography signals. These signatures arise due to pathological blood flow characteristics and a blood conductivity that strongly depends on the flow field, i.e., the proposed method is, in principle, applicable to any aortic pathology that changes the blood flow characteristics. For the signal classification, we trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) with artificial impedance cardiography data based on a simulation model for a healthy virtual patient and a virtual patient with an aortic dissection. The network architecture was tailored to a multi-sensor, multi-channel time-series classification with a categorical cross-entropy loss function as the training objective. The trained network typically yielded a specificity of (93.9±0.1)% and a sensitivity of (97.5±0.1)%. A study of the accuracy as a function of the size of an aortic dissection yielded better results for a small false lumen with larger noise, which emphasizes the question of the feasibility of detecting aortic dissections in an early state.
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