A new approach to automated assessment of fractionation of endocardial electrograms during atrial fibrillation

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1371-1381

  Kremen V ^a   Lhotska L ^a   MacAs M ^a   Cihak R ^b   Vancura V ^b   Kautzner, J ^b   Wichterle, D ^b,c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Complex fractionated atrial electrograms; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; DISEASES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATRIAL ELECTROGRAMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; ELECTROGRAMS; NEW APPROACHES; NOVEL ALGORITHM; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; WAVELETS TRANSFORM;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; AGED; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CATHETER ABLATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 59449108057     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/29/12/002     Document Type: Article

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