Inflection point analysis: A machine learning approach for extraction of IEGM active intervals during atrial fibrillation

Conclusion The proposed method can extract the active intervals of IEGMs during AF with a high accuracy and resolution close to manually annotated results. Significance In contrast with some of the conventional methods, no windowing technique is required in our approach resulting in significantly higher resolution in estimating the onset and offset of active intervals. Furthermore, since the signal characteristics at inflection points are analyzed instead of signal samples, the computational time is significantly low, ensuring the real-time application of our algorithm. The proposed method is also robust to noise and baseline variations thanks to the Laplacian of Gaussian filter employed for extraction of inflection points.
Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: research