Body Surface Potential Mapping: Contemporary Applications and Future Perspectives.

Journal: Hearts (Basel, Switzerland)
Published Date: Nov 5, 2021

Abstract

Body surface potential mapping (BSPM) is a noninvasive modality to assess cardiac bioelectric activity with a rich history of practical applications for both research and clinical investigation. BSPM provides comprehensive acquisition of bioelectric signals across the entire thorax, allowing for more complex and extensive analysis than the standard electrocardiogram (ECG). Despite its advantages, BSPM is not a common clinical tool. BSPM does, however, serve as a valuable research tool and as an input for other modes of analysis such as electrocardiographic imaging and, more recently, machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this report, we examine contemporary uses of BSPM, and provide an assessment of its future prospects in both clinical and research environments. We assess the state of the art of BSPM implementations and explore modern applications of advanced modeling and statistical analysis of BSPM data. We predict that BSPM will continue to be a valuable research tool, and will find clinical utility at the intersection of computational modeling approaches and artificial intelligence.

Authors

  • Jake Bergquist
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA.
  • Lindsay Rupp
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
  • Brian Zenger
    Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.
  • James Brundage
    School of Medicine, University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA.
  • Anna Busatto
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
  • Rob S MacLeod
    Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, SLC, UT, USA.

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