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Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) is an effective tool for noninvasive diagnosis of a range of cardiac dysfunctions. ECGI leverages a model of how cardiac bioelectric sources appear on the torso surface (the forward problem) and uses recorded body surface potential signals to reconstruct the bioelectric source (the inverse problem). Solutions to the inverse problem are sensitive to noise and variations in the body surface potential (BSP) recordings such as those caused by changes or errors in cardiac position. Techniques such as signal averaging seek to improve ECGI solutions by incorporating BSP signals from multiple heartbeats into an averaged BSP with a higher SNR to use when estimating the cardiac bioelectric source. However, signal averaging is limited when it comes to addressing sources of BSP variability such as beat to beat differences in the forward solution. We present a novel joint inverse formulation to solve for the cardiac source given multiple BSP recordings and known changes in the forward solution, here changes in the heart position. We report improved ECGI accuracy over signal averaging and averaged individual inverse solutions using this joint inverse formulation across multiple activation sequence types and regularization techniques with measured canine data and simulated heart motion. Our joint inverse formulation builds upon established techniques and consequently can easily be applied with many existing regularization techniques, source models, and forward problem formulations.
Supported by NIH NHLBI grant no. 1F30HL149327; NIH NIGMS Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (www.sci.utah.edu/cibc), NIH NIGMS grants P41GM103545 and R24 GM136986; and the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation for Cardiovascular Research.
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Bergquist, J.A. et al. (2021). Simultaneous Multi-heartbeat ECGI Solution with a Time-Varying Forward Model: A Joint Inverse Formulation. In: Ennis, D.B., Perotti, L.E., Wang, V.Y. (eds) Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart. FIMH 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12738. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78710-3_47
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