Machine Learning in Atrial Fibrillation
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- STATUS
- Recruiting
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- End date
- Dec 24, 2026
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- participants needed
- 120
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- sponsor
- Stanford University
Summary
Atrial fibrillation is a serious public health issue that affects over 5 million Americans (Miyazaka, Circulation 2006) in whom it may cause skipped beats, dizziness, stroke and even death. Therapy for AF is currently suboptimal, in part because AF represents several disease states of which few have been delineated or used to successfully guide management. This study seeks to clarify this delineation of AF types using machine learning (ML).
Description
This project tests the novel hypothesis that "Machine learning (ML) in AF patients can integrate physiological data across biological scales stratified by labeled outcomes, and use explainability analyses to identify electrical, structural and clinical determinants of ablation outcome in individual patients to guide personalized therapy". We address this hypothesis using a combined computational/clinical approach. The project will recruit 120 patients to address 3 Specific Aims.
Aim 1. To identify components of AF electrograms that indicate depolarization, repolarization or other mechanisms at the tissue level, using ML trained to monophasic action potentials (MAP). For this prospective protocol, we will collect electrograms using a MAP catheter at multiple atrial sites in patients undergoing AF ablation. We will then test if our algorithms developed previously from our registry, can predict MAP timings from AF electrograms.
Aim 2. To identify electrical and structural features of the acute response of AF to ablation near and remote from PVs at the individual heart level using machine learning and biostatistical approaches. For this prospective protocol, we will recruit patients undergoing their standard-of-care ablation and test if an ML classifier developed previously in a registry dataset prospectively predicts acute response to specific ablation strategies.
Aim 3. To identify patients in whom ablation is unsuccessful or successful long-term using ML and biostatistics. For this prospective protocol, we will recruit patients undergoing their standard-of-care ablation and test if an ML classifier developed previously in a registry dataset prospectively predicts 1 year freedom from atrial arrhythmias.
This project is significant because it will establish a deeper understanding of AF and might reveal novel mechanisms of AF maintenance. Our results can be translated directly to practice and may enable the development of better treatment options.
Details
| Condition | Atrial Fibrillation, Arrhythmias, Cardiac |
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| Clinical Study Identifier | NCT05371405 |
| Sponsor | Stanford University |
| Last Modified on | 24 May 2022 |
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