Overview
- Authors:
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Luca Mainardi
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Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Leif Sörnmo
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
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Sergio Cerutti
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Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Part 1
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- Andreas Bollmann, Federico Lombardi
Pages 3-32
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- Simona Petrutiu, Alan Sahakian, Steven Swiryn
Pages 33-51
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- Leif Sörnmo, Martin Stridh, JosĂ© JoaquĂn Rieta
Pages 53-80
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- Frida Sandberg, Martin Stridh, Leif Sörnmo
Pages 81-102
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Back Matter
Pages 103-109
About this book
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: Part I / Introduction to Atrial Fibrillation: From Mechanisms to Treatment / Time Domain Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation / Atrial Activity Extraction from the ECG / Time-Frequency Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation
