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Estimation of Electrical Pathways Finding Minimal Cost Paths from Electro-Anatomical Mapping of the Left Ventricle
Rubén CárdenesJuan Fernández-armentaAntonio BerruezoOscar CamaraBart BijnensDavid AndreuDavid Soto-iglesiasRafael Sebastiansubject
business.industryProcess (computing)Pattern recognitionVentricular tachycardiamedicine.diseasemedicine.anatomical_structureVentricleSimulated datamedicineArtificial intelligencebusinessFast marching methodBiomedical engineeringMathematicsdescription
The electrical activation of the heart is a complex physiological process that is essential for the understanding of several cardiac dysfunctions, such as ventricular tachycardia VT. Nowadays, electro-anatomical mappings of patient-specific activation times on the left ventricle surface can be estimated, providing crucial information to the clinicians for guiding cardiac treatment. However, some electrical pathways of particular interest such as Purkinje or still viable conduction channels are difficult to interpret in these maps. We present here a novel method to find some of these electrical pathways using minimal cost paths computations on surface maps. Experiments to validate the proposed method have been carried out in simulated data, and also in clinical data, showing good performance on recovering the main characteristics of simulated Purkinje trees e.g. end-terminals and promising results on a real case of fascicular VT.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 |