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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

An Efficient Hybrid Methodology for Local Activation Waves Detection under Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms of Atrial Fibrillation.

Diego Osorio, Aikaterini Vraka, Aurelio Quesada, Fernando Hornero, Raúl Alcaraz, José J Rieta

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Diego OsorioBioMIT.org, Electronic Engineering Department, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9220-8970
Aikaterini VrakaBioMIT.org, Electronic Engineering Department, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5984-904X
Aurelio QuesadaArrhythmia Unit, Cardiology Department, General University Hospital Consortium of Valencia, 46014 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4709-1993
Fernando HorneroCardiovascular Surgery Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7560-2781
Raúl AlcarazResearch Group in Electronic, Biomedical and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 16071 Cuenca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0942-3638
José J RietaBioMIT.org, Electronic Engineering Department, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3364-6380

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Generalitat Valenciana AICO/2021/286Joint Spanish Government with European Regional Development Fund 10.13039/501100011033Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness DPI2017-83952-C3Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2021-00X128525-IV0Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2021-123804OB-I00Ministry of Science and Innovation TED2021-129996B-I00Regional Government of Castile-La Mancha SBPLY/17/180501/000411
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Abstract

Local activation waves (LAWs) detection in complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAEs) during catheter ablation (CA) of atrial fibrillation (AF), the commonest cardiac arrhythmia, is a complicated task due to their extreme variability and heterogeneity in amplitude and morphology. There are few published works on reliable LAWs detectors, which are efficient for regular or low fractionated bipolar electrograms (EGMs) but lack satisfactory results when CFAEs are analyzed. The aim of the present work is the development of a novel optimized method for LAWs detection in CFAEs in order to assist cardiac mapping and catheter ablation (CA) guidance. The database consists of 119 bipolar EGMs classified by AF types according to Wells' classification. The proposed method introduces an alternative Botteron's preprocessing technique targeting the slow and small-ampitude activations. The lower band-pass filter cut-off frequency is modified to 20 Hz, and a hyperbolic tangent function is applied over CFAEs. Detection is firstly performed through an amplitude-based threshold and an escalating cycle-length (CL) analysis. Activation time is calculated at each LAW's barycenter. Analysis is applied in five-second overlapping segments. LAWs were manually annotated by two experts and compared with algorithm-annotated LAWs. AF types I and II showed 100% accuracy and sensitivity. AF type III showed 92.77% accuracy and 95.30% sensitivity. The results of this study highlight the efficiency of the developed method in precisely detecting LAWs in CFAEs. Hence, it could be implemented on real-time mapping devices and used during CA, providing robust detection results regardless of the fractionation degree of the analyzed recordings.

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Atrial FibrillationCatheter AblationAlgorithmsElectrophysiologic Techniques, CardiacHumansatrial fibrillationcomplex fractionated atrial electrogramsdetectionelectrograminvasive recordingslocal activation waves

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PMCPMC9316244

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