The temporal stability of recurrence quantification analysis attributes from chronic atrial fibrillation electrograms

Abstract Introduction The temporal behavior of atrial electrograms (AEGs) collected during persistent atrial fibrillation (persAF) directly affects ablative treatment outcomes. We investigated different durations of AEGs collected during persAF using recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). Methods...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research on biomedical engineering 2018-10, Vol.34 (4), p.337-349
Hauptverfasser: Almeida, Tiago Paggi de, Schlindwein, Fernando Soares, Salinet, João, Li, Xin, Chu, Gavin Shen-Wei, Tuan, Jiun Haur, Stafford, Peter James, Ng, G André, Soriano, Diogo Coutinho
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract Introduction The temporal behavior of atrial electrograms (AEGs) collected during persistent atrial fibrillation (persAF) directly affects ablative treatment outcomes. We investigated different durations of AEGs collected during persAF using recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). Methods 797 bipolar AEGs with different durations (from 0.5 s to 8 s) from 18 patients were investigated. Four RQA-based attributes were evaluated based on AEG durations: determinism (DET); recurrence rate (RR); laminarity (LAM); and diagonal lines’ entropy (ENTR). The Spearman correlation (ρ) between each duration versus 8 s was calculated. AEG classification was performed following the CARTO criteria (Biosense Webster) and receiving operating characteristic (ROC) curves were created for the RQA variables. Results The RQA variables successfully discriminated the AEGs: the area under the ROC curves were as high as 0.70 for AEGs with 3.5 s or greater. Three types of AEGs were found using these variables: normal, fractionated and temporally unstable. The number of unstable AEGs decreased with longer AEG segments. Different AEG durations significantly affected the RQA variables (P
ISSN:2446-4732
2446-4740
2446-4740
DOI:10.1590/2446-4740.180040