Non-invasive organization variation assessment in the onset and termination of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 148-154

  Alcaraz, Raúl ^a   Rieta, José Joaquín ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram analysis; Organization time course; Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; Sample entropy

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL ACTIVITIES; ECG RECORDINGS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION TIME COURSE; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; SAMPLE ENTROPY;

ENTROPY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149328920     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Kannel W.B., Abbott R.D., Savage D.D., and McNamara P.M. Epidemiologic features of chronic atrial fibrillation: the Framingham study. N. Engl. J. Med. 306 17 (1982) 1018-1022
2. Furberg C.D., Psaty B.M., Manolio T.A., Gardin J.M., Smith V.E., and Rautaharju P.M. Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in elderly subjects (the Cardiovascular Health Study). Am. J. Cardiol. 74 3 (1994) 236-241
3. Benjamin E.J., Wolf P.A., D'Agostino R.B., Silbershatz H., Kannel W.B., and Levy D. Impact of atrial fibrillation on the risk of death: the Framingham Heart Study. Circulation 98 10 (1998) 946-952
4. Fuster V., Rydén L.E., Cannom D.S., Crijns H.J., Curtis A.B., Ellenbogen K.A., et al. ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines and the European society of cardiology committee for practice guidelines (writing committee to revise the 2001 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation): developed in collaboration with the European heart rhythm association and the heart rhythm society. Circulation 114 7 (2006) e257-e354
5. Allessie M., Ausma J., and Schotten U. Electrical, contractile and structural remodeling during atrial fibrillation. Cardiovasc. Res. 54 2 (2002) 230-246
6. Sih H.J., Zipes D.P., Berbari E.J., and Olgin J.E. A high-temporal resolution algorithm for quantifying organization during atrial fibrillation. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 46 4 (1999) 440-450
7. Ravelli F., Masé M., Greco M.D., Faes L., and Disertori M. Deterioration of organization in the first minutes of atrial fibrillation: a beat-to-beat analysis of cycle length and wave similarity. J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 18 1 (2007) 60-65
8. Qu Z., and Weiss J.N. Dynamics and cardiac arrhythmias. J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 17 9 (2006) 1042-1049
9. Takahashi Y., Sanders P., Jaïs P., Hocini M., Dubois R., Rotter M., et al. Organization of frequency spectra of atrial fibrillation: relevance to radiofrequency catheter ablation. J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol. 17 4 (2006) 382-388
10. Kneller J., Kalifa J., Zou R., Zaitsev A.V., Warren M., Berenfeld O., Vigmond E.J., Leon L.J., Nattel S., and Jalife J. Mechanisms of atrial fibrillation termination by pure sodium channel blockade in an ionically-realistic mathematical model. Circ. Res. 96 5 (2005) e35-e47
11. Nilsson F., Stridh M., Bollmann A., and Sörnmo L. Predicting spontaneous termination of atrial fibrillation using the surface ECG. Med. Eng. Phys. 28 8 (2006) 802-808
12. Holmqvist F., Stridh M., Waktare J.E.P., Roijer A., Sörnmo L., Platonov P.G., and Meurling C.J. Atrial fibrillation signal organization predicts sinus rhythm maintenance in patients undergoing cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. Europace 8 8 (2006) 559-565
13. Richman J.S., and Moorman J.R. Physiological time series analysis using approximate entropy and sample entropy. Am. J. Physiol. 278 6 (2000) H2039-H2049
14. Alcaraz R., and Rieta J.J. Wavelet bidomain sample entropy analysis to predict spontaneous termination of atrial fibrillation. Physiol. Meas. 29 1 (2008) 65-80
15. Alcaraz R., and Rieta J.J. A non-invasive method to predict electrical cardioversion outcome of persistent atrial fibrillation. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 46 7 (2008) 625-635
16. Goldberger A.L., Amaral L.A., Glass L., Hausdorff J.M., Ivanov P.C., Mark R.G., Mietus J.E., Moody G.B., Peng C.K., and Stanley H.E. Physiobank, Physiotoolkit, and Physionet: components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation 101 23 (2000) e215-e220
17. Dotsinsky I., and Stoyanov T. Optimization of bi-directional digital filtering for drift suppression in electrocardiogram signals. J. Med. Eng. Technol. 28 4 (2004) 178-180
18. Ferdjallah M., and Barr R.E. Adaptive digital notch filter design on the unit-circle for the removal of powerline noise from biomedical signals. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 42 6 (1994) 529-536
19. Bollmann A., Husser D., Mainardi L., Lombardi F., Langley P., Murray A., Rieta J.J., Millet J., Olsson S.B., Stridh M., and Sörnmo L. Analysis of surface electrocardiograms in atrial fibrillation: techniques, research, and clinical applications. Europace 8 11 (2006) 911-926
20. Petrutiu S., Nijm G.M., Angari H.A., Swiryn S., and Sahakian A.V. Atrial fibrillation and waveform characterization-A time domain perspective in the surface ECG. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag. 25 6 (2006) 24-30
21. Pincus S.M. Assessing serial irregularity and its implications for health. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 954 (2001) 245-267
22. Pincus S.M. Approximate entropy as a measure of system complexity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 6 (1991) 2297-2301
23. Pincus S.M., and Keefe D.L. Quantification of hormone pulsatility via an approximate entropy algorithm. Am. J. Physiol. 262 5 Pt 1 (1992) E741-E754
24. Slocum J., Sahakian A., and Swiryn S. Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation from surface electrocardiograms based on computer-detected atrial activity. J. Electrocardiol. 25 1 (1992) 1-8
25. Stridh M., Sörnmo L., Meurling C.J., and Olsson S.B. Characterization of atrial fibrillation using the surface ECG: time-dependent spectral properties. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 48 1 (2001) 19-27
26. Rieta J.J., Castells F., Sánchez C., Zarzoso V., and Millet J. Atrial activity extraction for atrial fibrillation analysis using blind source separation. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 51 7 (2004) 1176-1186
27. Sörnmo L., and Laguna P. Bioelectrical Signal Processing in Cardiac and Neurological Applications (2005), Elsevier Academic Press
28. Israel C.W., Ehrlich J.R., Grönefeld G., Klesius A., Lawo T., Lemke B., and Hohnloser S.H. Prevalence, characteristics and clinical implications of regular atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with atrial fibrillation: insights from a study using a new implantable device. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 38 2 (2001) 355-363
29. Huang J., Rogers J.M., Killingsworth C.R., Singh K.P., Smith W.M., and Ideker R.E. Evolution of activation patterns during long-duration ventricular fibrillation in dogs. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 286 3 (2004) H1193-H1200
30. Konings K.T., Smeets J.L., Penn O.C., Wellens H.J., and Allessie M.A. Configuration of unipolar atrial electrograms during electrically induced atrial fibrillation in humans. Circulation 95 5 (1997) 1231-1241
31. Ricci R., Pignalberi C., Disertori M., Capucci A., Padeletti L., Botto G., Toscano S., Miraglia F., Grammatico A., and Santini M. Efficacy of a dual chamber defibrillator with atrial antitachycardia functions in treating spontaneous atrial tachyarrhythmias in patients with life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Eur. Heart J. 23 18 (2002) 1471-1479
32. Hoekstra B.P.T., Diks C.G.H., Allessie M.A., and DeGoede J. Nonlinear analysis of the pharmacological conversion of sustained atrial fibrillation in conscious goats by the class Ic drug cibenzoline. Chaos 7 3 (1997) 430-446
33. Everett T.H., Kok L.C., Vaughn R.H., Moorman J.R., and Haines D.E. Frequency domain algorithm for quantifying atrial fibrillation organization to increase defibrillation efficacy. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 48 9 (2001) 969-978
34. Calcagnini G., Censi F., Michelucci A., and Bartolini P. Descriptors of wavefront propagation. Endocardial mapping of atrial fibrillation with basket catheter. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag. 25 6 (2006) 71-78
35. Weber S., Ndrepepa G., Schneider M., Deisenhofer I., Zrenner B., and Schmitt C. Electrophysiological differences of the spontaneous onset of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation. Pacing Clin. Electrophysiol. 30 3 (2007) 295-303