Understanding atrial fibrillation : the signal processing contribution / Luca Mainardi, Leif Sörnmo, and Sergio Cerutti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mainardi, Luca, author.

Sörnmo, Leif, author.

Cerutti, Sergio, author.

Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart--Pathophysiology.

Heart.

Signal processing--Digital techniques.

Signal processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2008]

Summary:

The book presents recent advances in signal processing techniques for modeling, analysis, and understanding of the heart's electrical activity during atrial fibrillation. This arrhythmia is the most commonly encountered in clinical practice and its complex and metamorphic nature represents a challenging problem for clinicians, engineers, and scientists. Research on atrial fibrillation has stimulated the development of a wide range of signal processing tools to better understand the mechanisms ruling its initiation, maintenance, and termination. This book provides undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and practicing engineers, with an overview of techniques, including time domain techniques for atrial wave extraction, time-frequency analysis for exploring wave dynamics, and nonlinear techniques to characterize the ventricular response and the organization of atrial activity. The book includes an introductory chapter about atrial fibrillation and its mechanisms, treatment, and management. The successive chapters are dedicated to the analysis of atrial signals recorded on the body surface and to the quantification of ventricular response. The rest of the book explores techniques to characterize endo- and epicardial recordings and to model atrial conduction. Under the appearance of being a monothematic book on atrial fibrillation, the reader will not only recognize common problems of biomedical signal processing but also discover that analysis of atrial fibrillation is a unique challenge for developing and testing novel signal processing tools. Table of Contents: Analysis of Ventricular Response During Atrial Fibrillation / Organization Measures of Atrial Activity During Fibrillation / Modeling Atrial Fibrillation: From Myocardial Cells to ECG / Algorithms for Atrial Tachyarrythmia Detection for Long-Term Monitoring with Implantable Devices

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Mainardi, Luca Understanding Atrial Fibrillation

ISBN:

9783031016325

3031016327