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Atrial fibrillation frequency tracking in ambulatory ECG signals : The significance of signal quality assessment

Paliakaitė, Birutė ; Petrėnas, Andrius ; Henriksson, Mikael LU ; Skibarkienė, Jurgita ; Kubilius, Raimondas ; Sörnmo, Leif LU and Marozas, Vaidotas (2018) In Computers in Biology and Medicine 102. p.227-233
Abstract

An approach to atrial fibrillation (AF) frequency tracking in long-term ambulatory ECG recordings is presented, comprising f-wave extraction, dominant atrial frequency (DAF) tracking, and signal quality assessment. Since poor signal quality is commonly encountered in ambulatory monitoring, a recently proposed index is employed to assess f-wave signal quality in a database containing 38 patients with permanent AF. The index ensures that DAF outliers, typically associated with poor-quality segments, are excluded from further analysis. 40% of all 5-s signal segments were excluded from the database due to poor quality. The exclusion of DAF outliers significantly reduces the standard deviation of the frequency estimates (p≤0.01), allowing... (More)

An approach to atrial fibrillation (AF) frequency tracking in long-term ambulatory ECG recordings is presented, comprising f-wave extraction, dominant atrial frequency (DAF) tracking, and signal quality assessment. Since poor signal quality is commonly encountered in ambulatory monitoring, a recently proposed index is employed to assess f-wave signal quality in a database containing 38 patients with permanent AF. The index ensures that DAF outliers, typically associated with poor-quality segments, are excluded from further analysis. 40% of all 5-s signal segments were excluded from the database due to poor quality. The exclusion of DAF outliers significantly reduces the standard deviation of the frequency estimates (p≤0.01), allowing more reliable evaluation of the difference between day- and night-time DAF. The results show that signal quality assessment plays a central role in DAF tracking, and therefore should be employed in ambulatory monitoring.

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Dominant atrial frequency, Echo state network, f-wave extraction, Physical activity, Rehabilitation, Signal quality index, Single frequency tracker
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Computers in Biology and Medicine
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102
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227 - 233
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Elsevier
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0010-4825
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10.1016/j.compbiomed.2018.08.027
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English
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