Real-time guidance of radiofrequency ablation catheter contact orientation with cardiac tissue using optical coherence tomography (Conference Presentation)

Xin Yu; Rajinder P. Singh-Moon; Christine P. Hendon

doi:10.1117/12.2510280

7 March 2019 Real-time guidance of radiofrequency ablation catheter contact orientation with cardiac tissue using optical coherence tomography (Conference Presentation)

Xin Yu, Rajinder P. Singh-Moon, Christine P. Hendon

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Proceedings Volume 10855, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Light in Cardiology 2019; 108550O (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510280
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

An important parameter that affects the quality of radiofrequency ablation lesions that are produced is the contact angle and contact orientation. Both are challenging to determine in vivo, and a method to classify that information and provide feedback in real time could potentially titrate the energy dose and increase the success rates of this treatment. In our work, a grin lens-terminated single mode fiber was integrated into a commercial RFA catheter to allow for M-mode OCT imaging at the catheter tip. Ventricular wedges were dissected from four fresh swine hearts and submerged in whole blood. M-mode imaging was performed in four different orientations: non-contact, 30 degrees, 60 degrees, and 90 degrees. One contact classifier with two sub-classifiers was developed to classify whether the catheter is in proper contact with the tissue and the angle of the catheter when it is in contact. This classifier is based on convolutional neural networks and used keras as developing framework with tensorflow backend. We achieved 98.51% accuracy in the "contact" or "noncontact" classifier and 91.21% in the orientation classifier with 30 degrees, 60 degrees and 90 degrees as outputs. We successfully tested the contact quality classifier in real time and achieved high accuracy in 0.0053 seconds for a group of 20 A-lines. These results support the potential of having the guidance of catheter placement during the RFA therapy using OCT image and pre-trained classifiers. Future experiments will further test M-mode OCT and our processing algorithm within a larger sample size and demonstrate the utility in vivo.

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Xin Yu, Rajinder P. Singh-Moon, and Christine P. Hendon "Real-time guidance of radiofrequency ablation catheter contact orientation with cardiac tissue using optical coherence tomography (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10855, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Light in Cardiology 2019, 108550O (7 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2510280

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Optical coherence tomography

Radiofrequency ablation

Tissue optics

In vivo imaging

Blood

Convolutional neural networks

Heart

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