scholarly journals Wavelet Entropy as a Measure of Ventricular Beat Suppression from the Electrocardiogram in Atrial Fibrillation

Entropy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 6397-6411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Langley
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl Alcaraz ◽  
José J. Rieta

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common supraventricular arrhythmia in clinical practice, thus, being the subject of intensive research both in medicine and engineering. Wavelet Entropy (WE) is a measure of the disorder degree of a specific phenomena in both time and frequency domains, allowing to reveal underlying dynamical processes out of sight for other methods. The present work introduces two different WE applications to the electrocardiogram (ECG) of patients in AF. The first application predicts the spontaneous termination of paroxysmal AF (PAF), whereas the second one deals with the electrical cardioversion (ECV) outcome in persistent AF patients. In both applications, WE was used with the objective of assessing the atrial fibrillatory(f)waves organization. Structural changes into the f waves reflect the atrial activity organization variation, and this fact can be used to predict AF progression. To this respect, results in the prediction of PAF termination regarding sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 95.38%, 91.67%, and 93.60%, respectively. On the other hand, for ECV outcome prediction, 85.24% sensitivity, 81.82% specificity, and 84.05% accuracy were obtained. These results turn WE as the highest single predictor of spontaneous PAF termination and ECV outcome, thus being a promising tool to characterize non-invasive AF signals.


1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1516-1521 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.T. Marcel Gosselink ◽  
Paul K. Blanksma ◽  
Harry J.G.M. Crijns ◽  
Isabelle C. Van Gelder ◽  
Pieter-Jan de Kam ◽  
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Heart ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
H J Muntinga ◽  
A T M Gosselink ◽  
P K Blanksma ◽  
P J De Kam ◽  
E E V. D. Wall ◽  
...  

Entropy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 6179-6199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ródenas ◽  
Manuel García ◽  
Raúl Alcaraz ◽  
José Rieta

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