Key result
Novel conduction slowness method improves cardiac fibre direction estimation on simulated data despite conduction blocks.
Why the study?
Estimating tissue conductivity parameters from EGMs could assist in diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders such as AF, but existing conductivity estimation methods often assume fibre direction is already known.
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A novel computational method based on local conduction slowness vectors accurately estimates cardiac fibre direction from electrograms, even in the presence of conduction blocks.
Estimating tissue conductivity parameters from electrograms (EGMs) could be an important tool for diagnosing and treating heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation (AF). One of these parameters is the fibre direction, often assumed to be known in conductivity estimation methods. In this paper, a novel method to estimate the fibre direction from EGMs is presented. This method is based on local conduction slowness vectors of a propagating activation wave. These conduction slowness vectors follow an elliptical pattern that depends on the underlying conductivity parameters. The fibre direction and conductivity anisotropy ratio can therefore be estimated by fitting an ellipse to the conduction slowness vectors. Applying the presented method on simulated data shows that it can estimate the fibre direction more accurately than existing methods, and that its performance depends mostly on the range of wavefront directions present in the measurement area. The main advantage of the presented method is that it still functions relatively well in the presence of conduction blocks, as long as the surrounding tissue is approximately homogeneous.
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Vries et al. (2023) studied Heart rhythm disorders (e.g., atrial fibrillation). Novel method to estimate fibre direction from EGMs based on local conduction slowness vectors vs. Existing methods was evaluated on Accuracy of fibre direction estimation. A novel method based on local conduction slowness vectors estimated cardiac fibre direction more accurately than existing methods on simulated data, functioning well even with conduction blocks.
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