Accuracy of automatic abnormal potential annotation for substrate
identification in scar-related ventricular tachycardia
Abstract
Introduction: Ultra-high-density mapping for ventricular tachycardia
(VT) is increasingly used. However, manual annotation of local abnormal
ventricular activities (LAVAs) is challenging in this setting.
Therefore, we assessed the accuracy of the automatic annotation of LAVAs
with the Lumipoint algorithm of the Rhythmia system (Boston Scientific).
Methods and Results: One hundred consecutive patients undergoing
catheter ablation of scar-related VT were studied. Areas with LAVAs and
ablation sites were manually annotated during the procedure and compared
with automatically annotated areas using the Lumipoint features for
detecting late potentials (LP), fragmented potentials (FP), and double
potentials (DP). The accuracy of each automatic annotation feature was
assessed by re-evaluating local potentials within automatically
annotated areas. Automatically annotated areas matched with manually
annotated areas in 64 cases (64%), identified an area with LAVAs missed
during manual annotation in 15 cases (15%), and did not highlight areas
identified with manual annotation in 18 cases (18%). Automatic FP
annotation accurately detected LAVAs regardless of the cardiac rhythm or
scar location; automatic LP annotation accurately detected LAVAs in
sinus rhythm, but was affected by the scar location during ventricular
pacing; automatic DP annotation was not affected by the mapping rhythm,
but its accuracy was suboptimal when the scar was located on the right
ventricle or epicardium. Conclusion: The Lumipoint algorithm was as/more
accurate than manual annotation in 79% of patients. FP annotation
detected LAVAs most accurately regardless of mapping rhythm and scar
location. The accuracy of LP and DP annotations varied depending on
mapping rhythm or scar location.