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Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Medical Imaging

Background:

  • Automated pace mapping can localize early left ventricular (LV) activation origin.
  • Current methods require numerous pacing sites, necessitating fewer electrocardiography (ECG) leads for efficiency.
  • Identifying an optimal minimal ECG lead set is crucial for refining this automated approach.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine an optimal minimal set of ECG leads for an automated LV activation origin localization system.
  • To compare the performance of different lead sets in accurately identifying the source of LV activation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized 1715 LV endocardial pacing sites for derivation and testing datasets.
  • Employed random forest regression (RFR) and exhaustive search to identify optimal 3-lead ECG sets.
  • Compared the performance of identified lead sets and calculated Frank leads using a testing dataset of 703 pacing sites.

Main Results:

  • Random Forest Regression identified leads III, V1, and V4; exhaustive search identified leads II, V2, and V6.
  • Both identified sets showed similar performance to Frank leads when using 5 or more pacing sites.
  • Accuracy improved with up to 9 pacing sites, achieving < 5 mm accuracy when focused on a suspected area.

Conclusions:

  • The quasi-orthogonal lead set identified by RFR effectively localizes LV activation origin with minimal pacing sites.
  • Localization accuracy using the identified leads was high and comparable to exhaustive search or empirical Frank lead use.
  • This optimized approach minimizes the required training data for accurate LV activation mapping.