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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Beat-to-Beat P-Wave Analysis Outperforms Conventional P-Wave Indices in Identifying Patients with a History of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation during Sinus Rhythm.

Dimitrios Tachmatzidis, Dimitrios Filos, Ioanna Chouvarda, Anastasios Tsarouchas, Dimitrios Mouselimis, Constantinos Bakogiannis, Charalampos Lazaridis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou, Antonios P Antoniadis, Nikolaos Fragakis and 4 more

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Dimitrios Tachmatzidis3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4279-8351
Dimitrios FilosLab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Technologies, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioanna ChouvardaLab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Technologies, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8915-6658
Anastasios Tsarouchas3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-2883-2688
Dimitrios Mouselimis3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0266-302X
Constantinos Bakogiannis3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Charalampos Lazaridis3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Konstantinos Triantafyllou3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6117-2389
Antonios P Antoniadis3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikolaos Fragakis3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Georgios Efthimiadis1st Cardiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 21 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nicos MaglaverasLab of Computing, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Imaging Technologies, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4919-0664
Dimitrios G TsalikakisDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, 501 00 Kozani, Greece.
Vassilios P Vassilikos3rd Cardiology Department, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 546 42 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0885-9170

Funding

Hellenic Cardiological Society HCS grant #1/2017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early identification of patients at risk for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) is essential to attain optimal treatment and a favorable prognosis. We compared the performance of a beat-to-beat (B2B) P-wave analysis with that of standard P-wave indices (SPWIs) in identifying patients prone to PAF. To this end, 12-lead ECG and 10 min vectorcardiogram (VCG) recordings were obtained from 33 consecutive, antiarrhythmic therapy naïve patients, with a short history of low burden PAF, and from 56 age- and sex-matched individuals with no AF history. For both groups, SPWIs were calculated, while the VCG recordings were analyzed on a B2B basis, and the P-waves were classified to a primary or secondary morphology. Wavelet transform was used to further analyze P-wave signals of main morphology. Univariate analysis revealed that none of the SPWIs performed acceptably in PAF detection, while five B2B features reached an AUC above 0.7. Moreover, multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to develop two classifiers-one based on B2B analysis derived features and one using only SPWIs. The B2B classifier was found to be superior to SPWIs classifier; B2B AUC: 0.849 (0.754-0.917) vs. SPWIs AUC: 0.721 (0.613-0.813),

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atrial fibrillationbeat to beatdiagnostic modelP-wave analysisP-wave indiceswavelet analysis

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PMID34574035
PMCPMC8470012

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