WAVELET SAMPLE ENTROPY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH OPTIMAL MOTHER FUNCTION SELECTION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ANALYSIS




2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva María Cirugeda-Roldán ◽  
Antonio Molina Picó ◽  
Daniel Novák ◽  
David Cuesta-Frau ◽  
Vaclav Kremen

Most cardiac arrhythmias can be classified as atrial flutter, focal atrial tachycardia, or atrial fibrillation. They have been usually treated using drugs, but catheter ablation has proven more effective. This is an invasive method devised to destroy the heart tissue that disturbs correct heart rhythm. In order to accurately localise the focus of this disturbance, the acquisition and processing of atrial electrograms form the usual mapping technique. They can be single potentials, double potentials, or complex fractionated atrial electrogram (CFAE) potentials, and last ones are the most effective targets for ablation. The electrophysiological substrate is then localised by a suitable signal processing method. Sample Entropy is a statistic scarcely applied to electrograms but can arguably become a powerful tool to analyse these time series, supported by its results in other similar biomedical applications. However, the lack of an analysis of its dependence on the perturbations usually found in electrogram data, such as missing samples or spikes, is even more marked. This paper applied SampEn to the segmentation between non-CFAE and CFAE records and assessed its class segmentation power loss at different levels of these perturbations. The results confirmed that SampEn was able to significantly distinguish between non-CFAE and CFAE records, even under very unfavourable conditions, such as 50% of missing data or 10% of spikes.



2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 049-057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Horie ◽  
Naoto Burioka ◽  
Takashi Amisaki ◽  
Eiji Shimizu


2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 1628-1636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe I. Donoso ◽  
Rosa L. Figueroa ◽  
Eduardo A. Lecannelier ◽  
Esteban J. Pino ◽  
Alejandro J. Rojas






Author(s):  
Patrick Royston

Since Royston and Altman's 1994 publication ( Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C 43: 429–467), fractional polynomials have steadily gained popularity as a tool for flexible parametric modeling of regression relationships. In this article, I present fp_select, a postestimation tool for fp that allows the user to select a parsimonious fractional polynomial model according to a closed test procedure called the fractional polynomial selection procedure or function selection procedure. I also give a brief introduction to fractional polynomial models and provide examples of using fp and fp_select to select such models with real data.



2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pezawas ◽  
Thomas Binder ◽  
Robin Ristl ◽  
Barbara Schneider ◽  
Stefan Stojkovic ◽  
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