ReviewFrontiers in physiology2018
Validation and Opportunities of Electrocardiographic Imaging: From Technical Achievements to Clinical Applications.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review of computational techniques, dataset utilization, and feature extraction in electrocardiographic imaging.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2025Pooled it
- Multimodal Characterization of Atrial Fibrillation: From Patient-Specific Anatomy and Electrophysiology to Standardized Atrial Mapping.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2026Review
- An integrated platform for 2-D and 3-D optical and electrical mapping of arrhythmias in Langendorff-perfused rabbit hearts.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- A Review of the Forward Problem in Electrocardiographic Imaging.Journal of imaging · 2026Review
- Computer-aided characterization of the arrhythmogenic substrate after myocardial infarction.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026Review
- Volumetric non-invasive cardiac mapping for accessible global arrhythmia characterization.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Noninvasive Cardiac Electrical Activity Mapping Systems: Current Available Options.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
- Predictive Value of Electrocardiographic Markers Versus Echocardiographic and Clinical Measures for Appropriate ICD Shocks in Heart Failure Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A Novel 3D Camera-Based ECG-Imaging System for Electrode Position Discovery and Heart-Torso Registration.IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · 2025Article
- AI-Powered Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging Using the Priori-to-Attention Network (P2AN) for Wearable Health Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of rigid cardiac motion on the accuracy of electrocardiographic imaging.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Hybrid Neural State-Space Modeling for Supervised and Unsupervised Electrocardiographic Imaging.IEEE transactions on medical imaging · 2024Article
- The Dutch Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation Registry: progress report on the quest to identify the unidentifiable.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2024Article
- Advances in Multi-Modality Imaging in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Innovations in ventricular tachycardia ablation.Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing · 2023Review
- Electrocardiographic imaging in the atria.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2023Review
- Quantifying and Visualizing Uncertainty for Source Localization in Electrocardiographic Imaging.Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. Imaging & visualization · 2023Article
- AF driver detection in pulmonary vein area by electropcardiographic imaging: Relation with a favorable outcome of pulmonary vein isolation.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Tipping the scales of understanding: An engineering approach to design and implement whole-body cardiac electrophysiology experimental models.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Evaluation of photogrammetry for medical application in cardiology.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) reconstructs the electrical activity of the heart from a dense array of body-surface electrocardiograms and a patient-specific heart-torso geometry. Depending on how it is formulated, ECGI allows the reconstruction of the activation and recovery sequence of the heart, the origin of premature beats or tachycardia, the anchors/hotspots of re-entrant arrhythmias and other electrophysiological quantities of interest. Importantly, these quantities are directly and non-invasively reconstructed in a digitized model of the patient's three-dimensional heart, which has led to clinical interest in ECGI's ability to personalize diagnosis and guide therapy. Despite considerable development over the last decades, validation of ECGI is challenging. Firstly, results depend considerably on implementation choices, which are necessary to deal with ECGI's ill-posed character. Secondly, it is challenging to obtain (invasive) ground truth data of high quality. In this review, we discuss the current status of ECGI validation as well as the major challenges remaining for complete adoption of ECGI in clinical practice. Specifically, showing clinical benefit is essential for the adoption of ECGI. Such benefit may lie in patient outcome improvement, workflow improvement, or cost reduction. Future studies should focus on these aspects to achieve broad adoption of ECGI, but only after the technical challenges have been solved for that specific application/pathology. We propose 'best' practices for technical validation and highlight collaborative efforts recently organized in this field. Continued interaction between engineers, basic scientists, and physicians remains essential to find a hybrid between technical achievements, pathological mechanisms insights, and clinical benefit, to evolve this powerful technique toward a useful role in clinical practice.
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