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Data Analysis in Cardiac Arrhythmias

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Data Mining in Clinical Medicine

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1246))

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Cardiac arrhythmias are an increasingly present in developed countries and represent a major health and economic burden. The occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias is closely linked to the electrical function of the heart. Consequently, the analysis of the electrical signal generated by the heart tissue, either recorded invasively or noninvasively, provides valuable information for the study of cardiac arrhythmias. In this chapter, novel cardiac signal analysis techniques that allow the study and diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias are described, with emphasis on cardiac mapping which allows for spatiotemporal analysis of cardiac signals.

Cardiac mapping can serve as a diagnostic tool by recording cardiac signals either in close contact to the heart tissue or noninvasively from the body surface, and allows the identification of cardiac sites responsible of the development or maintenance of arrhythmias. Cardiac mapping can also be used for research in cardiac arrhythmias in order to understand their mechanisms. For this purpose, both synthetic signals generated by computer simulations and animal experimental models allow for more controlled physiological conditions and complete access to the organ.

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    Miguel Rodrigo, Jorge Pedrón-Torecilla, Ismael Hernández, Alejandro Liberos & María S. Guillem

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Rodrigo, M., Pedrón-Torecilla, J., Hernández, I., Liberos, A., Climent, A.M., Guillem, M.S. (2015). Data Analysis in Cardiac Arrhythmias. In: Fernández-Llatas, C., García-Gómez, J. (eds) Data Mining in Clinical Medicine. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1246. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1985-7_14

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