Toward mechanism-directed electrophenotype-based treatments for atrial fibrillation

FS Ng, BS Handa, X Li, NS Peters - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Current treatment approaches for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) have a ceiling of success of
around 50%. This is despite 15 years of developing adjunctive ablation strategies in addition …

Directed networks as a novel way to describe and analyze cardiac excitation: directed graph mapping

N Vandersickel, E Van Nieuwenhuyse… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Networks provide a powerful methodology with applications in a variety of biological,
technological and social systems such as analysis of brain data, social networks, internet …

Information theory-based direct causality measure to assess cardiac fibrillation dynamics

X Shi, A Sau, X Li, K Patel, N Bajaj… - Journal of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the mechanism sustaining cardiac fibrillation can facilitate the
personalization of treatment. Granger causality analysis can be used to determine the …

Robust evaluation method of communication network based on the combination of complex network and big data

C Huang, L Zhu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2021 - Springer
The essence of big data may be the science of complex network, which should be one of the
basic theories of big data, and the direct object of mobile communication network is big data …

Granger causality–based analysis for classification of fibrillation mechanisms and localization of rotational drivers

BS Handa, X Li, KK Aras, NA Qureshi… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: The mechanisms sustaining myocardial fibrillation remain disputed, partly due
to a lack of mapping tools that can accurately identify the mechanism with low spatial …

Novel mapping techniques for rotor core detection using simulated intracardiac electrograms

V Ravikumar, E Annoni, P Parthiban… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Catheter ablation is associated with limited success rates in patients with
persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Currently, existing mapping systems fail to identify critical …

A 97-Channel Read-Out ASIC for an Electrophysiological Mapping Catheter With an Optical Link

A Frank, B Kootte, T Göttsche, P Jutte… - … Circuits and Systems, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrophysiological (EP) mapping catheters are medical equipment, which are widely used
to diagnose and treat atrial fibrillation. The electrophysiology signals are sensed by the …

Is human atrial fibrillation stochastic or deterministic?—Insights from missing ordinal patterns and causal entropy-complexity plane analysis

KN Aronis, RD Berger, H Calkins, J Chrispin… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The mechanism of atrial fibrillation (AF) maintenance in humans is yet to be determined. It
remains controversial whether cardiac fibrillatory dynamics are the result of a deterministic …

Atrial fibrillation driver identification through regional mutual information networks: a modeling perspective

Q Sha, L Elliott, X Zhang, T Levy, T Sharma… - Journal of Interventional …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Effective identification of electrical drivers within remodeled tissue is a key for
improving ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation. We have developed a mutual information …

[HTML][HTML] Recommender system for ablation lines to treat complex atrial tachycardia

M Vila, MW Rivolta, CAB Espinosa, LA Unger… - Computer Methods and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective: Planning the optimal ablation strategy for the treatment
of complex atrial tachycardia (CAT) is a time consuming task and is error-prone. Recently …