Improved local activation time annotation of fractionated atrial electrograms for atrial mapping

Background: Local activation time (LAT) annotation in unipolar electrograms is complicated by interference from nonlocal atrial activities of neighboring tissue. This happens due to the spatial blurring that is inherent to electrogram recordings. In this study, we aim to exploit multi-electrode electrogram recordings to amplify the local...

Local Activation Time Estimation in Fractionated Electrograms of Cardiac Mappings

In this study, we propose a novel approach for estimation of local activation times (LATs) in fractionated electrograms. Using an electrophysiological tissue model, we first formulate the electrogram array as a convolution of transmembrane currents with a distance kernel. These currents are more local activities and less affected by the...

A compact matrix model for atrial electrograms for tissue conductivity estimation

Finding the hidden parameters of the cardiac electrophysiological model would help to gain more insight on the mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation, and subsequently, facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of the disease in later stages. In this work, we aim to estimate tissue conductivity from recorded electrograms as an indication of...

Ventricular Activity Signal Removal in Atrial Electrograms of Atrial Fibrillation

Diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation can benefit from various signal processing approaches employed on atrial electrograms. However, the performance and interpretation of these approaches get highly degraded by far-field ventricular activities (VAs) that distort the morphology of the pure atrial activities (AAs). In this study, we...