Applications of Signal Analysis to Atrial Fibrillation

Currently, atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines are intended to assist physicians in clinical decision making by describing a range of generally acceptable approaches for the diagnosis and management of AF. However, these guidelines provide no recommendations that takes into account other aspects of the arrhythmia related with its computational analysis. For example, the proper application of spectral analysis, how to quantify different AF patterns in terms of organization, or how to deal with ventricular contamination before AF analysis are some aspects that could provide an improved scenario to the physician in the search of useful clinical information [1].

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