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HEART ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION
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By: Elnaz Shokrollahi
Supervisors: Dr. S. Krishnan
Dr. K. Nanthakumar
SIGNAL PROPAGATION IN HEART
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Stimulus originates in the SA
node and travels across the
walls of the atria, causing
them to contract.
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Stimulus arrives at the AV
node and travels along the AV
bundle
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Stimulus descends to the apex
of the heart through the
bundle branches
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After stimulus reaches the
Purkinje fibers, the ventricles
contract.
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CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA
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Cardiac arrhythmia is when the electrical activity of the
heart is irregular (faster/slower) than normal.
Tachycardia
(Fast Heartbeat)
Bradycardia
(Slow Heartbeat)
Ventricular Fibrillation
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CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY (EP)
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CONVENTIONAL EP MAPPING
 Point-by-point
mapping acquisition.
 Direct voltage mapping.
 Many Disadvantages:
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Identification of areas of low voltage is timeconsuming catheter manipulation.
Focal lesion creation may not be sufficient to ablate
VT conduction through a broad isthmus region.
Identification breakthrough points may be
challenging.
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NON-CONTACT MAPPING
 Catheter
of its own.
 Non-contact
mapping
uses unipolar Virtual
Electrograms (VE)
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ILLUSTRATION OF GEOMETRY AND
POSITION OF PACED AREAS
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ELECTROGRAM
o Recording of cardiac potentials
from electrodes directly in contact
with the heart.
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TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS
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-Peak Negative Voltage (PNV) in (mV)
-Maximal Negative dV/dt (mV/ms)
-Area Under the Curve (AUC)
-Presence of an initial R-wave
-Duration
-Presence of low-amplitude depolarization
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RESULTS OF TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS
Case
Endocardial
Epicardial
Latency
14.5 ± 5.3 ms
18.2 ± 7.8 ms
Duration
18.8 ± 6.2 ms
22.2 ± 5.3 ms
PNV
-2 ± 1 mV
-3 ± 5.3 ms
Low Amp. Depo
0%
60%
Max Neg dV/dt
1.6 ± 0.2mV/ms
2.27 ± 0.4mV/ms
AUC
881 ± 36
1090 ± 50.5
R-wave
0%
80%
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FREQUENCY- DOMAIN ANALYSIS
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FFT requires large quantities of data to produce
significant result.
X (k )   x( j )
N
j 1
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AR modeling
( j 1)( k 1)
N
i p
xn   ai xn i  n
i 1
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RESULTS OF CLASSIFICATION
Results with AR Coefficients
Method
Groups
Endocardial
Epicardial
Total
Original
Endocardial
Epicardial
Endocardial
Epicardial
Endocardial
Epicardial
Endocardial
Epicardial
44
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97.8
15
42
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93.3
18.3
1
51
2.2
85
3
49
6.7
81.7
45
60
100
100
45
60
100
100
%
Cross-Validated
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CONCLUSIONS
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Presented electrographic parameters.
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Morphologies of electrograms allowed the
discrimination of endo/epicardially paced activation.
Possibility of combination of the criteria will
improve the perception over any single criterion.
 Allow to detect tachycardia originating
epicardially using noncontact mapping.
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