Cardiac Map Suite: investigating the electrophysiological activities in a moden way

Version 2.0.0.0, Jan 12, 2010

Description

Atrial fibrillation is a common and complex arrthythmia. In the past 10 years cather-based radiofrequency ablation has dramatically increased to the benefit of eliminating AF in the most symptomatic patients affected by this problematic arrhymia.Further investigation into the electrophysiological properties in AF is required to develop an appropriate treatment, though radiofrequency ablation has opened the new era of therapies for AF. In order to be used as an important role in characterizing complete propagation through atrium, whole-atrial epicardial mapping system may analysis both amplitude and phase information. In order to record whole atrial electrical activity at the same time, a new epicardial mapping system was developed in 2008. This map system can synchronously record multi-sites electronic signals in a cardiac cycle, and then to demonstrate the activation's propagation path in a 3D cardiac model.

News

2008-07-16: A prototype is posted on CVS.
2008-12-03: 1.0.0.0 Beta is released.
2009-04-30: The source packet of a new 3D interpolation algorithm is released.
2009-12-25: 2.0.0.0 Beta is released.
2010-02-26: A paper is accepted by Computers in Biology and Medicine, see documentation.
2010-03-03: A new document manager is recruited, and she is very outstanding in composing of engineering documents, and has contributed to this project for a long time.

Download

Cardiac Map Suite is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Pre-compiled binaries¹ ²are available for Windows only. Tutorials and manuals are included in all the archives.

Current stable release: 2.0.0-Beta
Experimental versions and unintegrated modles:
- automated nightly builds: under working
- unintegrated modles: interp algorithm
Browse the whole project: CVS browse
Check out the whole project into a local working directory
- make sure TortoiseCVS and CVSNT is installed in your system
- open cmd
- browse to a directory where the whole project would be located
- use following command to log in: cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cardiacmap.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cardiacmap login
- use following command to checkout a module: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cardiacmap.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cardiacmap co -P modulename
All documents(Firmware, Driver, PCB File) about the data acquisitive card used in this system can be fetched here

Authors and credits

Cardiac Map Suite is developed by Alfred Lu³. Please use AlfredWJLu#gmail.com to send questions and bug reports (or contact with professor Yang⁴ instead by yangcw#fudan.edu.cn).

Documentation

Tutorials and manuals are under composing...

Following papers can be used temporarily as a reference, this document is located in the ./docs/papers/ after the whole projects is retrieved:

Weijia Lu, Cuiwei Yang, Zuxiang Fang, Xingpeng Liu, Xin Zhu, Daming Wei. Implementation of a Novel Interpolating Method to Epicardial Potential Mapping for Atrial Fibrillation Study, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol.40, 2010, pp : 456-463.
Weijia Lu, Cuiwei Yang, Zuxiang Fang. A Method for Real-time Sampling and Smoothly Scrolling in Epicardial Mapping System, Journal of Biomedical Engineering, vol.26(5), 2009.
Weijia Lu, Zuxiang Fang. A New Scheme for Observation and Interpretation Atrial Fibrillation. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008, ICBBE 2008: 832-835.
Weijia Lu, Tuo Zhou, Cuiwei Yang, Zuxiang Fang. Dynamic Epicardial Mapping Using 3D Emulation. Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, 2008, BMEI 2008, Vol.2: 420-424.
Cuiwei Yang, Weijia Lu, Tuo Zhou, Xiaomei Wu, Zuxiang Fang. Development of Epicardial Mapping System for Study Atrial Fibrillation. Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, 2008, BMEI 2008, Vol.2: 606-609.
Cuiwei Yang, Weijia Lu, Xiaomei Wu, Zuxiang Fang. Design and Implementation of a New System for Whole-Atrial Epicardial Mapping. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 2007, 9(1):22-23.
Weijia Lu. Dissertation of Fudan University (CN), June, 2009.

Mailing lists

cardiacmap.user@gmail.com is the public mailing list for users. You should send all questions, bug reports, requests or pleas for changes related to cardiac map suite to this list. You can add to this list here, or just try to find it by typing cardiacmap.user in the text box in gmailinglist web site.

Licensing

Cardiac Map Suite is copyright (C) 2008-2012 by Alfred Lu and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). In short, this means that everyone is free to use Cardiac Map Suite and to redistribute it on a free basis in the restriction. You cannot redistribution a closed-source software or use this software binary or source in a product as well as any academic study without an acknowledgment in the corresponding documents.

If you use Cardiac Map Suite in any academic study or a product, following papaer should be cited in your work (book, articles, reports, etc):

Weijia Lu, Cuiwei Yang, Zuxiang Fang, Xingpeng Liu, Xin Zhu, Daming Wei. Implementation of a Novel Interpolating Method to Epicardial Potential Mapping for Atrial Fibrillation Study, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol.40, 2010, pp : 456-463. (pdf)

and we would appreciate if you could cite one of the following too:

Weijia Lu, Zuxiang Fang. A New Scheme for Observation and Interpretation Atrial Fibrillation. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008, ICBBE 2008: 832-835. (pdf)
Cuiwei Yang, Weijia Lu, Xiaomei Wu, Zuxiang Fang. Design and Implementation of a New System for Whole-Atrium Epicardial Mapping, International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 2007, 9(1): 22-23. (pdf)

If you want to integrate Cardiac Map Suite binary or source into a closed-source software, or want to sell a modified closed-source version of Cardiac Map Suite, please contact us in person and require for additional license.

In any condition, you should keeps the file header details in all source codes.

If any conflict is found between the license file in the distribution and this paragraph, you sould acting according to this paragraph.

Screenshots

¹You need the DirectX 9.0 or later installed on your system and the video card of your PC should support 3D acceleration.

²You need the Microsoft Office Access installed on your system, because all animal experiment records are managed in a access database.

³Dr. Lu got his first doctor degree of E.E. in Fudan University, China in June, 2009 and his second doctor degree of C.S in Aizu University, Japan in Sept, 2011. His interesting is focus on the biomedical signal processing, biomedical informatics and computer biomedical modeling. See here for more details.

⁴Dr. Yang got her doctor degree of E.E. in Fudan University, China in June, 2008 and is presently an associate professor of Fudan University.