dc.contributor.author | Zhou, Shijie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-15T15:24:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-15T15:24:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-01-15T15:24:23Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73567 | |
dc.description.abstract | The clinical electrophysiological (EP) techniques of intracardiac recording and stimulation have emerged as invaluable tools for investigating and treating life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. Computing technology plays a crucial role in making EP techniques possible. Two computational approaches designed to facilitate EP procedures are the subject of this dissertation: the first one is referred to as electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI); the second one is a novel statistical approach that enables a real-time guidance of the EP procedure based on the standard 12-lead ECG and a pace-mapping. Pre-ablation planning by means of ECGI can help to localize the origin of ventricular tachycardia (VT) and thus contribute to improving ablation-procedure outcome. The classical ECGI solves the inverse problem of electrocardiography by reconstructing epicardial potentials from multiple body-surface ECGs and patient-specific geometry of the heart and torso acquired by computed tomography. To overcome the inherent instability of the inverse problem, regularization methods must be used to constrain the solution. The present study assessed a data-driven Bayesian approach to the inverse solution that uses a novel algorithm for deriving dynamic spatio-temporal constrains for the solution. The encouraging results of validation experiments provide a strong incentive for pursuing the Bayesian method further. Next, a new statistical technique for real-time guidance of EP procedure was investigated. This technique supplements electroanatomic mapping---which provides patient's heart geometry---and it requires only the 12-lead ECG for a sufficient number of pacing sites with known coordinates to develop multiple linear regressions for predicting the origin of unknown activation sequence. The localization accuracy of the latter statistical method was superior to that achieved by the inverse solution and thus this approach to localizing the origin of ventricular activation offers an alternative to the pre-procedure inverse solution and its
implicity makes it practical for real-time applications. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Body-surface potential mapping | en_US |
dc.subject | Ablation-Catheter | en_US |
dc.subject | 12-lead ECG | en_US |
dc.title | LOCALIZATION OF VENTRICULAR ACTIVATION ORIGIN USING PATIENT-SPECIFIC GEOMETRY | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2017-12-11 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Biomedical Engineering | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Dr. Dana Brooks | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Dr. Robert Adamson | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. John L. Sapp | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Dr. Alexander Quinn | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. B. Milan Horacek | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Dr. Joshua L. Leon | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Received | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |