Towards a repository of synthetic electrograms for atrial activation detection in atrial fibrillation

Computers in Biology and Medicine
Maddalena ValinotiCristiana Corsi

Abstract

Recently, the analysis of the spatio-temporal behavior of atrial fibrillation activation patterns has been widely investigated with the aim to better understand the arrhythmia implications on the heart electrical activity. Most of the proposed techniques are based on atrial activation timing detections. Unfortunately atrial activation timings are not easily recognizable on the electrograms (EGMs) and an approach to support the validation of such techniques is highly desirable. The aim of this study is to provide an effective workflow for the generation of synthetic unipolar atrial electrograms (SEGMs) in atrial fibrillation (AF) condition and with different levels of noise. Real EGMs signals were obtained from a dataset of 6 subjects that underwent ablation. Each SEGM was obtained by modeling the three principal components of an EGM starting from real signals: atrial far-field (Afar), atrial near-field (Anear) and the ventricular far-field (Vfar). Afar was generated using an autoregressive model applied on segments from real EGMs not characterized by ventricular or atrial activations; Anear and Vfar were extracted directly from the real signals. A Gamma distribution and an atrio-ventricular node model were used to locate both A...Continue Reading

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