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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.767190
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atrial fibrillation; ablation; signal processing; earth mover's distance (EMD); similarity score
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资金
- UMN MNP [21.30]
- National Institute of Health [R01 HL104025, R01 HL106592]
The study aimed to develop a similarity score using various iEGM analysis techniques to accurately identify the spatial location of active sites of arrhythmia in patients with AF.
BackgroundAtrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and precursor to other cardiac diseases. Catheter ablation is associated with limited success rates in patients with persistent AF. Currently, existing mapping systems fail to identify critical target sites for ablation. Recently, we proposed and validated several individual techniques, such as dominant frequency (DF), multiscale frequency (MSF), kurtosis (Kt), and multiscale entropy (MSE), to identify active sites of arrhythmias using simulated intracardiac electrograms (iEGMs). However, the individual performances of these techniques to identify arrhythmogenic substrates are not reliable. ObjectiveThis study aimed to develop a similarity score using various iEGM analysis techniques to more accurately identify the spatial location of active sites of arrhythmia in patients with AF. MethodsClinical bipolar iEGMs were obtained from patients with AF who underwent either successful (m = 4) or unsuccessful (m = 4) catheter ablation. A similarity score (0-3) was developed via the earth mover's distance (EMD) approach based on a combination of DF, MSF, MSE, and Kt techniques. ResultsIndividual techniques successfully discriminated between successful and unsuccessful AF ablation patients but were not reliable in identifying active spatial sites of AF. However, the proposed similarity score was able to pinpoint the spatial sites with high values (active AF sites) that were observed only in patients with unsuccessful AF termination, suggesting that these active sites were missed during the ablation procedure. ConclusionArrhythmogenic substrates with abnormal electrical activity are identified in patients with unsuccessful AF termination after catheter ablation, suggesting clinical efficacy of similarity score.
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