Measuring the Complexity of Atrial Fibrillation Electrograms

AF Electrogram Complexity.  Introduction: Complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE) have been identified as targets for atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. Robust automatic algorithms to objectively classify these signals would be useful. The aim of this study was to evaluate Shannon's entropy (ShEn) and the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov (K‐S) test as a measure of signal complexity and to compare these measures with fractional intervals (FI) in distinguishing CFAE from non‐CFAE signals.

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