Fascicular ventricular tachycardia (VT) is an idiopathic VT with right bundle branch block morphology and left-axis deviation occuring predominantly in young males. Fascicular tachycardia has been classified into three subtypes namely, left posterior fascicular VT, left anterior fascicular VT and upper septal fascicular VT. The mechanism of this tachycardia is believed to be localized reentry c...

Objective The aim of this study was to determine whether CARTO mapping is feasible in the right ventricle and assess its utility in guiding ablation of right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) ventricualr tachycardia (VT). Background In patients with RVOT VT; CARTO mapping permits ablation guided by a VT complex, which may facilitate ablation of VT cases. However, the mapping system may be geomet...

Various synthesis strategies relying on conventional standard-cell libraries (SCLs) are evaluated in order to minimize the energy dissipation per operation in sub-threshold (sub-VT) systems. First, two sub-VT analysis methods are reviewed, both of which allow to evaluate the energy dissipation and performance in the sub-VT regime for designs which have been synthesized using a 65-nm CMOS SCL, c...

A 3 AIS-Impute (proposed algorithm). Require: partially observed matrix O, parameter λ, decay parameter ν ∈ (0, 1), threshold ; 1: [U0, λ0, V0] = rank-1 SVD(PΩ(O)); 2: c = 1, ̃0 = ‖PΩ(O)‖F , X0 = X1 = λ0U0V > 0 ; 3: for t = 1, 2, . . . do 4: ̃t = ν̃0; θt = (c− 1)/(c+ 2); 5: λt = ν(λ0 − λ) + λ; 6: Yt = Xt + θt(Xt −Xt−1); 7: Z̃t = Yt + PΩ(O − Yt); 8: Vt−1 = Vt−1 − Vt(VtVt−1), remove zero columns; ...

Background Assessment of risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation (VT/VF) remains one of the most challenging areas in management of patients with chronic myocardial infarction. VT substrate consists of reentry circuits near or within a chronic scar. Invasive catheter mapping using electroanatomical system (EAM) is the clinical standard for identificati...

We are aiming to detect local deceleration of Japanese spontaneous conversational speech. We have proposed the variable threshold (VT), which detects local speech rate deceleration from the sequence of time series of mora duration. In this paper, we add a constant term to the VT to detect local deceleration appropriately. The VT is applied to 167 samples of Japanese spontaneous speech taken fro...

To validate the accuracy of catheter endocardial mapping to localize the origin of ventricular tachycardia (VT), we compared catheter endocardial mapping with intraoperative epicardial and endocardial mapping of 24 morphologically distinct VTs in 18 patients undergoing surgery. Twelve had VT with left bundle branch block morphology and 12 had VT with right bundle branch block morphology. Cathet...