Why the study?
Pre-procedure planning for ablation of ventricular arrhythmias can be facilitated by electrocardiographic inverse solutions, and the authors aimed to improve localization accuracy for left-ventricular endocardial activation using sparse Bayesian learning.
Does an equivalent-double-layer model using sparse Bayesian learning improve the localization accuracy of endocardial activation compared to previous methods in patients with structurally normal ventricles?
Does an equivalent-double-layer model using sparse Bayesian learning improve the localization accuracy of endocardial activation compared to previous methods in patients with structurally normal ventricles?
A sparse Bayesian learning approach using an equivalent-double-layer model accurately localizes left-ventricular endocardial activation, potentially aiding pre-procedure ablation planning for ventricular arrhythmias.
May aid pre-procedural ablation planning; extends prior methods but leaves open prospective validation.
OBJECTIVE: Ablation treatment of ventricular arrhythmias can be facilitated by pre-procedure planning aided by electrocardiographic inverse solution, which can help to localize the origin of arrhythmia. Our aim was to improve localization accuracy of the inverse solution for activation originating on the left-ventricular endocardial surface, by using a sparse Bayesian learning (SBL). METHODS: The inverse problem of electrocardiography was solved by reconstructing endocardial potentials from time integrals of body-surface electrocardiograms and from patient-specific geometry of the heart and torso for three patients with structurally normal ventricular myocardium, who underwent endocardial catheter mapping that included pace mapping. Complementary simulations using dipole sources in patient-specific geometry were also performed. The proposed method is using sparse property of the equivalent-double-layer (EDL) model of cardiac sources; it employs the SBL and makes use of the spatio-temporal features of the cardiac action potentials. RESULTS: The mean localization error of the proposed method for pooled pacing sites ( n=52) was significantly smaller ( p=0.0039) than that achieved for the same patients in the study of Erem et al. Simulation experiments localized the source dipoles ( n=48) from forward-simulated potentials with the error of 9.4 ± 4.5 mm (mean ± SD). CONCLUSION: The results of our clinical and simulation experiments demonstrate that localization of left-ventricular endocardial activation by means of the Bayesian approach, based on sparse representation of sources by EDL, is feasible and accurate. SIGNIFICANCE: The proposed approach to localizing endocardial sources may have important applications in pre-procedure assessment of arrhythmias and in guiding their ablation treatment.
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Zhou et al. (2018) studied this question.