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- Title
Comparative Study of Methods for Cycle Length Estimation in Fractionated Electrograms of Atrial Fibrillation.
- Authors
Osorio, Diego; Vraka, Aikaterini; Moreno-Arribas, José; Bertomeu-González, Vicente; Alcaraz, Raúl; Rieta, José J.
- Abstract
Atrial cycle length (CL) is an important feature for the analysis of electrogram (EGM) characteristics acquired during catheter ablation (CA) of atrial fibrillation (AF), the commonest cardiac arrhythmia. Nevertheless, a robust ACL estimator requires the precise detection of local activation waves (LAWs), which still remains a challenge. This work aims to compare the performance in (CL) estimation, especially under fractionated EGMs, of three different LAW detection methods relying on different operation strategies. The methods are based on the hyperbolic tangent (HT) function, an adaptive amplitude threshold (AAT) and a (CL) iteration (ACLI), respectively. For each method, LAW detection has been assessed with respect to manual annotations made by two experts and performance has been estimated by confusion matrix and mean and individual (CL) error calculation by EGM types of fractionation. The influence of EGM length on the individual (CL) error has been additionally considered. For the HT method, accuracy, sensitivity and precision were 92.77–100%, while for the AAT and ACLI methods they were 78.89–99.91% for all EGM types. The CL error on the HT method was lower than AAT and ACLI methods (up to 12 ms versus up to 20 ms), with the difference being more prominent in complex EGMs. The HT method also showed the lowest dependency on EGM length, presenting the lowest and least variable error values. Therefore, the HT method achieves higher performance in (CL) estimation in comparison with previous LAW detection techniques. The high robustness and precision demonstrated by this method suggest its implementation on CA mapping devices for a more successful location of ablation targets and improved results during CA procedures.
- Subjects
ARRHYTHMIA; COMPARATIVE method; ATRIAL flutter; CATHETER ablation; ATRIAL fibrillation; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 10, p1712
- ISSN
2075-4426
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jpm12101712