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Deep learning based methods have been exploited to provide an end-to-end AF detection by automatically extracting features from Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and achieve state-of-the-art results. However, the pre-trained models cannot adapt to each patient\u2019s rhythm due to the high variability of rhythm characteristics among different patients. Furthermore, the deep models are prone to overfitting when fine-tuned on the limited ECG of the specific patient for personalization. In this work, we propose a prior knowledge incorporated learning method to effectively personalize the model for patient-specific AF detection and alleviate the overfitting problems. To be more specific, a prior-incorporated portion importance mechanism is proposed to enforce the network to learn to focus on the targeted portion of the ECG, following the cardiologists\u2019 domain knowledge in recognizing AF. A prior-incorporated regularization mechanism is further devised to alleviate model overfitting during personalization by regularizing the fine-tuning process with feature priors on typical AF rhythms of the general population. The proposed personalization method embeds the well-defined prior knowledge in diagnosing AF rhythm into the personalization procedure, which improves the personalized deep model and eliminates the workload of manually adjusting parameters in conventional AF detection method. The prior knowledge incorporated personalization is feasibly and semi-automatically conducted on the edge, device of the cardiac monitoring system. 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