Understanding Atrial Fibrillation: The Signal Processing Contribution, Part II

丛 书 名：Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering

版本说明：1

作     者：Mainardi, Luca Sornmo, Leif Cerutti, Sergio 

I S B N：(纸本) 9781598292961 

出 版 社：Morgan & Claypool Publishers 

出 版 年：2008年

主 题 词：contribution synthesis processing signal atrial fibrillation understandingEngineering Professional & Technical 

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

摘      要：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.