Title
Cancellation of ventricular activity in the ECG: evaluation of novel and existing methods.
Abstract
Due to the much higher amplitude of the electrical activity of the ventricles in the surface electrocardiogram (ECG), its cancellation is crucial for the analysis and characterization of atrial fibrillation. In this paper, two different methods are proposed for this cancellation. The first one is an average beat subtraction type of method. Two sets of templates are created: one set for the ventricular depolarization waves and one for the ventricular repolarization waves. Next, spatial optimization (rotation and amplitude scaling) is applied to the QRS templates. The second method is a single beat method that cancels the ventricular involvement in each cardiac cycle in an independent manner. The estimation and cancellation of the ventricular repolarization is based on the concept of dominant T and U waves. Subsequently, the atrial activities during the ventricular depolarization intervals are estimated by a weighted sum of sinusoids observed in the cleaned up segments. ECG signals generated by a biophysical model as well as clinical ECG signals are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed methods in comparison to two standard ABS-based methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/TBME.2006.888835
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
electrocardiography,medical signal processing,optimisation,ABS-based methods,ECG,amplitude scaling,atrial fibrillation,average beat subtraction,cardiac cycle,electrical activity,rotation scaling,single beat method,spatial optimization,ventricles,ventricular activity cancellation,ventricular depolarization waves,ventricular repolarization waves,Atrial fibrillation,ECG preprocessing,QRST cancellation,average beat subtraction
Atrial fibrillation,Computer science,Electronic engineering,QRS complex,Beat (music),Cardiac cycle,Electrocardiography,Subtraction,Amplitude,Electrical conduction system of the heart
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
3
0018-9294
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
2.16
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mathieu Lemay118316.13
Jean-Marc Vesin220132.09
Adriaan van Oosterom3424.56
Vincent Jacquemet4303.13
Lukas Kappenberger5323.82