Understanding Atrial Fibrillation: The Signal Processing Contribution - Brossura

Luca Mainardi (author), Leif Sornmo (author) & Sergio Cerutti (author)

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ISBN 10: 159829296X ISBN 13: 9781598292961

Casa editrice: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 159829296X
• ISBN 13: 9781598292961
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 129
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile