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QT interval

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Finding information-rich electrocardiographic biomarkers to characterize atrial fibrillation

Anna Mary Mc Cann

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia; it will affect one in four adults worldwide in their lifetime. AF has serious consequences, including drastically increased risk of stroke. Catheter ablation surgery is an established treatmen ...

EPFL2023

RMSSD Is More Sensitive to Artifacts Than Frequency-Domain Parameters: Implication in Athletes? Monitoring

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Sasan Yazdani

Easy-to-use and accurate heart rate variability (HRV) assessments are essential in athletes??? follow-up, but artifacts may lead to erroneous analysis. Artifact detection and correction are the purpose of extensive literature and implemented in dedicated a ...

JOURNAL SPORTS SCIENCE & MEDICINE2022

AI-Based Estimation of End-Systolic Elastance From Arm-Pressure and Systolic Time Intervals

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Vasiliki Bikia, Georgios Rovas, Stamatia Zoi Pagoulatou

Left ventricular end-systolic elastance (Ees) is a major determinant of cardiac systolic function and ventricular-arterial interaction. Previous methods for the Ees estimation require the use of the echocardiographic ejection fraction (EF). However, given ...

2021

Severe and uniform bi-atrial remodeling measured by dominant frequency analysis in persistent atrial fibrillation unresponsive to ablation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Etienne Pruvot, Andréa Buttu, Adrian Luca

Background High values of ECG and intracardiac dominant frequency (DF) are indicative of significant atrial remodeling in persistent atrial fibrillation (peAF). We hypothesized that patients with peAF unresponsive to ablation display higher ECG and intraca ...

2020

Signal processing techniques for cardiovascular monitoring applications using conventional and video-based photoplethysmography

Sibylle Fallet

Photoplethysmography (PPG)-based monitoring devices will probably play a decisive role in healthcare environment of the future, which will be preventive, predictive, personalized and participatory. Indeed, this optical technology presents several practical ...

EPFL2018

Perceived interest and heart rate response to façade and daylight patterns in Virtual Reality

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo, Kynthia Chamilothori, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

This contribution introduces an experimental study aiming to provide concrete evidence on how façade and daylight pattern geometry can affect the emotional responses triggered by a space. The study was conducted in Virtual Reality (VR) where participants w ...

2018

Analysis of U-Shape Patterns in RR-Interval Time Series During Sleep

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Sasan Yazdani

The proposed study investigates a phenomenon, defined as "U-patterns", that takes place in the RR-interval time series during sleep. These patterns are defined as a U-shaped decrease-increase in the RR-intervals, with a duration of 20 to 40 seconds with a ...

IEEE2018

Usefulness of P-Wave Duration and Morphologic Variability to Identify Patients Prone to Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Lukas Kappenberger, Sasan Yazdani, Adrian Luca

Few data are available on the assessment of P-wave beat-to-beat morphology variability and its ability to identify patients prone to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) occurrence. Aim of this study was to determine whether electrocardiographic (ECG) param ...

Excerpta Medica Inc-Elsevier Science Inc2017

A Novel Measure of Instantaneous Baroreflex Sensitivity

Jean-Marc Vesin, Sasan Yazdani, Miljan Petrovic

Various time- and frequency-based approaches have been proposed to measure baroreflex sensitivity. All these methods are block-based ones. This study proposes a novel instantaneous measure of baroreflex sensitivity that enables the investigation of frequen ...

2017

Hierarchical Cardiac-Rhythm Classification Based on Electrocardiogram Morphology

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Dionisije Sopic, Elisabetta De Giovanni

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a type of cardiac arrhythmia that significantly increases the risk of stroke and heart failure. In general, in the case of patients affected by AF, their electrocardiogram (ECG) shows a typical pattern of irregular RR intervals ...

2017

Robust heart rate estimation using wrist-type photoplethysmographic signals during physical exercise: an approach based on adaptive filtering

Jean-Marc Vesin, Sibylle Fallet

Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals are easily corrupted by motion artifacts when the subjects perform physical exercise. This paper introduces a two-step processing scheme to estimate heart rate (HR) from wrist-type PPG signals strongly corrupted by motio ...

Institute of Physics2017

Minimal Window Duration for Accurate HRV Recording in Athletes

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Sasan Yazdani

Heart rate variability (HRV) is non-invasive and commonly used for monitoring responses to training loads, fitness, or overreaching in athletes. Yet, the recording duration for aseries of RR-intervals varies from 1 to 15 min in the literature. The aim of t ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Ultra-Low Power Estimation of Heart Rate Under Physical Activity Using a Wearable Photoplethysmographic System

David Atienza Alonso, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Elisabetta De Giovanni

In the last years, the need for enhancing health and preventing problems with remote monitoring is increasing. A non-invasive low-cost technique for processing bio-signals and monitoring vital parameters, at rest and during physical activity, is the use of ...

IEEE Press2016

Method for detecting abnormalities in an electrocardiogram

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Ruben Braojos Lopez

A method for classification of ECG beats into normal and different categories of abnormal beats. The method comprises the following steps, performed on a computing platform: a. performing a training phase comprising taking as an input one or more ECG beats ...

2015

Automated multi-parameter measurement of cardiomyocytes dynamics with digital holographic microscopy

Pierre Marquet, Gerardo Turcatti, Benjamin Rappaz

Compounds tested during drug development may have adverse effects on the heart; therefore all new chemical entities have to undergo extensive preclinical assessment for cardiac liability. Conventional intensity-based imaging techniques are not robust enoug ...

Optical Society of America2015

Sleep Apnea Detection using Features from the Respiration and the ECG recorded with Smart-Shirts

Jean-Marc Vesin, Grégoire Millet, Andréa Buttu, Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi, Sibylle Fallet

The automatic detection of sleep apnea episodes, without the need of polysomnography and outside a clinical facility, could help facilitate the diagnosis of this disorder. In this work, features to detect sleep apnea events were computed from respiration a ...

2014

Adaptive frequency tracking of the baseline ECG identifies the site of atrial fibrillation termination by catheter ablation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Etienne Pruvot, Andréa Buttu, Jérôme Sébastien Van Zaen

Multiple organization indices have been used to predict the outcome of stepwise catheter ablation in long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), however with limited success. Our study aims at developing innovative organization indices from baseline ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Measures of Right Atrial Organization as a Mean to Select Candidates for Sinus Rhythm Restoration by Catheter Ablation

Jean-Marc Vesin, Etienne Pruvot, Andréa Buttu

Stepwise catheter ablation (step-CA) can terminate long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (LS-pAF) within the left atrium (LA) or may require additional right atrial (RA) ablation. Intracardiac organization indices such as AF cycle length (AFCL) have ...

2013

Estimation and Modeling of QT-Interval Adaptation to Heart Rate Changes

Jean-Marc Vesin

This paper introduces a new method for QT-interval estimation. It consists in a batch processing mode of the improved Woody's method. Performance of this methodology is evaluated using synthetic data. In parallel, a new model of QT-interval dynamics behavi ...

2012

Time-Dependent Approach for Single Trial Classification of Covert Visuospatial Attention

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin

Recently, several studies have started to explore covert visuospatial attention as a control signal for brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). Covert visuospatial attention represents the ability to change the focus of attention from one point in the space with ...

Institute of Physics2012