Το work with title Single equivalent dipole inverse electrocardiography based on ordinary 12 leads recordings by Saliakoura A., Theodosiadou Georgia, Rigas Alexandros G., Kyriacou, George A, Zervakis Michail is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
A. Saliakoura, G. Theodosiadou, A. Rigas, G. Kyriacou and M. Zervakis, "Single equivalent dipole inverse electrocardiography based on ordinary 12 leads recordings," in 4th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications, 2018, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/PACET.2017.8259962
https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259962
The characterization of cardiac electric activity by equivalent electric sources including dipoles received a great research effort in the past. Recently these methods are revisited but exploiting a grid of multiple electrodes (up to 200), but these multi-lead electrodes are not widespread yet. Certainly, most hospitals and ordinary cardiology practice is still based on standard 12-lead ECG recordings. Exactly towards this aim is the effort put herein, hardly to exploit standard 12-lead ECG recordings to extract an equivalent electric dipole for the cardiac activity. Ultimately, this work aims at a trustworthy and very fast inverse ECG algorithm able to operate even with a simple standard ECG device available on an ambulance. This could contribute to early diagnosis as the type of heart malfunctioning during the patient transfer to the hospital.