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    Area of Science:

    • Cardiology
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Computational Biology

    Background:

    • Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia with limited catheter ablation success in persistent cases.
    • Rotors are implicated in maintaining AF, making their cores potential ablation targets.
    • Existing multiscale entropy (MSE) methods for rotor core identification are sensitive to parameter choices.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To optimize the multiscale entropy (MSE) approach for improved accuracy and sensitivity in identifying rotor cores.
    • To determine optimal intrinsic parameters for MSE analysis in simulated human atrial electrograms (EGMs).

    Main Methods:

    • Simulated EGMs from a human atrial model were used to test the MSE approach.
    • A convergence graph was employed to identify the optimal time scale factor (τopt).
    • The optimal template dimension (Τopt) was assessed across different sampling rates.

    Main Results:

    • The optimal time scale factor (τopt) was determined to be 10.
    • The optimal template dimension (Τopt) was found to be approximately 20 ms.
    • The optimized MSE approach demonstrated robustness across varying signal acquisition sampling rates.

    Conclusions:

    • Optimized MSE provides a more accurate and sensitive method for identifying rotor cores in AF.
    • The identified optimal parameters (τopt=10, Τopt≈20 ms) enhance the reliability of MSE for rotor core detection.
    • This optimized technique holds promise for improving catheter ablation strategies in persistent AF.