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Atrial Fibrillation Waveform Extraction Algorithm for Holter Systems

홀터 심전계를 위한 심방세동 신호 추출 알고리즘

  • Received : 2012.02.13
  • Accepted : 2012.04.30
  • Published : 2012.05.25
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Abstract

Atrial fibrillation is needed to be detected at paroxysmal stage and to be treated. But, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation ECG is hardly obtained with 12-lead electrocardiographs but Holter systems. Presently, the averaged beat subtraction(ABS) method is solely used to estimate atrial fibrillatory waves even with somewhat large residual error. As an alternative, in this study, we suggested an ESAF(event-synchronous adaptive filter) based algorithm, in which the AF ECG was treated as a primary input and event-synchronous impulse train(ESIT) as a reference. And, ESIT was generated so to be synchronized with the ventricular activity by detecting QRS complex. We tested proposed algorithm with simulated AF ECGs and real AF ECGs. As results, even with low computational cost, this ESAF based algorithm showed better performance than the ABS method and comparable performance to algorithm based on PCA(principal component analysis) or SVD(singular value decomposition). We also proposed an expanded version of ESAF for some AF ECGs with multi-morphologic ventricular activities and this also showed reasonable performance. Ultimately, with Holter systems including our proposed algorithm, atrial activity signal can be precisely estimated in real-time so that it will be possible to calculate atrial fibrillatory rate and to evaluate the effect of anti-arrhythmic drugs.

심방세동은 발작성 심방세동 단계에서부터 검출 및 분석하여 적절한 치료를 실시하여야 하며, 홀터 심전계를 통해서만 측정할 수 있다. 현재 12채널 심전계를 통해서는 심방세동 신호를 추출할 수 있는 효과적인 방법들이 개발되어 있으나, 홀터 심전계를 위한 방법으로는 심실활동 템플릿을 단순 제거하는 ABS(averaged beat subtraction)방법이 사용되고 있다. 최근 단일 채널 심전도로부터 심방세동 신호를 추출하기 위한 PCA(principal component analysis) 또는 SVD(singular value decomposition) 기반의 알고리즘이 제안되기도 하였으나, 구현이 복잡하고 전문가의 개입이 필요한 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 주 입력인 심방세동 심전도에서 심실활동을 이벤트로서 검출한 뒤 이를 기준 입력으로 하는 이벤트 동기 적응필터(ESAF, event-synchronous adaptive filter)를 제안하고, 심방세동 신호 추출 성능을 평가해 보았다. 그 결과 기존 ABS 방법에 비해 우수할 뿐만 아니라, 전문가의 개입 없이도 PCA 또는 SVD 기반의 알고리즘과도 대등한 성능을 보였다. 나아가 이형성 심실활동이 있는 경우에도 효과적으로 대응할 수 있는 확장 ESAF 방법을 제안하였으며, 단형성 심실활동이 있는 경우와 유사한 수준의 성능을 확인하였다. 제안된 알고리즘을 홀터 심전계에 적용하면 발작성 심방세동 심전도의 분석뿐만 아니라 항부정맥 약물의 치료효과를 실시간으로 보다 정확하게 평가할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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