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Reducing Error in ECG Forward Simulations With Improved Source Sampling
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DOI：10.3389/fphys.2018.01304.png)
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A continuing challenge in validating electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) is the persistent error in the associated forward problem observed in experimental studies. One possible cause of this error is insufficient representation of the cardiac sources; cardiac source measurements often sample only the ventricular epicardium, ignoring the endocardium and the atria. We hypothesize that measurements that completely cover the pericardial surface are required for accurate forward solutions. In this study, we used simulated and measured cardiac potentials to test the effect of different levels of spatial source sampling on the forward simulation. Not surprisingly, increasing the source sampling over the atria reduced the average error of the forward simulations, but some sampling strategies were more effective than others. Uniform and random distributions of samples across the atrial surface were the most efficient strategies in terms of lowest error with the fewest sampling locations, whereas single direction strategies, i.e., adding to the atrioventricular (AV) plane or atrial roof only, were the least efficient. Complete sampling of the atria is needed to eliminate errors from missing cardiac sources, but while high density sampling that covers the entire atria yields the best results, adding as few as 11 electrodes on the atria can significantly reduce these errors. Future validation studies of the ECG forward simulations should use a cardiac source sampling that takes these considerations into account, which will, in turn, improve validation and understanding of ECGI.
Keywords:
ECG imaging
ECG forward simulation
cardiac source sampling
epicardial potentials
body-surface potentials
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