Atrial Fibrillation from an Engineering Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sörnmo, Leif (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Series in BioEngineering,
• Subjects: Biomedical engineering.; Human physiology.; Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Cardiology.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Human Physiology.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

Atrial Fibrillation from an Engineering Perspective provides an up-to-date overview of techniques developed for acquisition, modeling, and analysis of noninvasive, bioelectrical signals reflecting this common arrhythmia. Special emphasis is put on emerging technologies for monitoring of atrial fibri...

Table of Contents:

• Clinical aspects on atrial fibrillation
• Data acquisition: Lead systems, Signal simulation
• Detection of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
• Extraction of atrial activity
• Characterization of atrial activity
• Atrioventricular node modeling
• Ventricular response analysis
• Techniques for catheter ablation
• "Future challenges" including the use mobile devices.