Lee, Jack

Nagel, Eike

Rivolo, Simone

Smith, Nicolas P.

Simone Rivolo

Eike Nagel

Nicolas P. Smith

Jack Lee

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Automatic selection of optimal Savitzky-Golay filter parameters for Coronary Wave Intensity Analysis

Coronary Wave Intensity Analysis (cWIA) is a technique capable of separating the effects of proximal arterial haemodynamics from cardiac mechanics. The cWIA ability to establish a mechanistic link between coronary haemodynamics measurements and the underlying pathophysiology has been widely demonstrated. Moreover, the prognostic value of a cWIA-derived metric has been recently proved. However, the clinical application of cWIA has been hindered due to the strong dependence on the practitioners, mainly ascribable to the cWIA-derived indices sensitivity to the pre-processing parameters. Specifically, as recently demonstrated, the cWIA-derived metrics are strongly sensitive to the Savitzky-Golay (S-G) filter, typically used to smooth the acquired traces. This is mainly due to the inability of the S-G filter to deal with the different timescale features present in the measured waveforms. Therefore, we propose to apply an adaptive S-G algorithm that automatically selects pointwise the optimal filter parameters. The newly proposed algorithm accuracy is assessed against a cWIA gold standard, provided by a newly developed in-silico cWIA modelling framework, when physiological noise is added to the simulated traces. The adaptive S-G algorithm, when used to automatically select the polynomial degree of the S-G filter, provides satisfactory results with ≤ 10% error for all the metrics through all the levels of noise tested. Therefore, the newly proposed method makes cWIA fully automatic and independent from the practitioners, opening the possibility to multi-centre trials

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Automatic selection of optimal Savitzky-Golay filter parameters for Coronary Wave Intensity Analysis

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