Analysis of the robustness of spectral indices during ventricular fibrillation

•We analyze the robustness of spectral indices describing fibrillation organization.•The dominant frequency is a robust spectral index.•Indices depending on the spectral envelope of cardiac signals are non-robust.•The spatial resolution of lead systems can distort the spectral envelope.•Non-robust i...

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Published in:Biomedical signal processing and control Vol. 8; no. 6; pp. 733 - 739
Main Authors: Requena-Carrión, Jesús, Alonso-Atienza, Felipe, Everss, Estrella, Sánchez-Muñoz, Juan José, Ortiz, Mercedes, García-Alberola, Arcadi, Rojo-Álvarez, José Luis
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2013
Subjects:
Cardiac organization
Dominant frequency
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
Intracardiac electrogram
Spectral analysis
Cardiac organization
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
Spectral analysis
Intracardiac electrogram
Dominant frequency
ISSN:1746-8094
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Summary:•We analyze the robustness of spectral indices describing fibrillation organization.•The dominant frequency is a robust spectral index.•Indices depending on the spectral envelope of cardiac signals are non-robust.•The spatial resolution of lead systems can distort the spectral envelope.•Non-robust indices provide inconsistent measures of fibrillation organization. The spatiotemporal characteristics of cardiac fibrillation are often investigated by using indices extracted from the spectrum of cardiac signals. However different signal acquisition systems may produce signals of different spectra and affect the estimation of some spectral indices. In this study, we investigate the robustness of four spectral indices previously proposed for describing fibrillation, namely the dominant frequency (DF), the peak frequency (PF), the median frequency (MF) and the organization index (OI). The effects of different lead configurations on the values of the spectral indices are statistically quantified and further analyzed in a database consisting of unipolar and bipolar intracardiac electrograms (EGM), recorded by implantable cardioverter-defibrillators during ventricular fibrillation. Our analysis shows that the lead configuration significantly affects the PF, the MF and the OI, whereas the DF remains unaffected. We further explore the nature of cardiac spectrum and show that unipolar EGM concentrate power at lower frequencies than bipolar EGM. We conclude that indices that depend on the envelope of the spectrum of cardiac signals are in general sensitive to the lead configuration.
ISSN:1746-8094
DOI:10.1016/j.bspc.2013.06.013