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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">info21310</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2010.299</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Analysis of Thermovisual Data of the Radio-Frequency Impact on the Myocardium Damage</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Veikutis</surname><given-names>Vincentas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Dzemyda</surname><given-names>Gintautas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Treigys</surname><given-names>Povilas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Morkūnaitė</surname><given-names>Kristina</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Basevičius</surname><given-names>Algidas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_003"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Lukoševičius</surname><given-names>Saulius</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_003"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Šakalytė</surname><given-names>Gintarė</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_004"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Sederevičius</surname><given-names>Antanas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:treigys@ktl.mii.lt">treigys@ktl.mii.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_005"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Institute for Biomedical Research of Kaunas University of Medicine, Eivenių 4, LT-3007 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos 4, LT-08663 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002">Institute of Cardiology of Kaunas University of Medicine, Eivenių 4, LT-3007 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_003">Department of Radiology of Kaunas University of Medicine, Eivenių 2, LT-3007 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_004">Department of Cardiology of Kaunas University of Medicine, Eivenių 2, LT-3007 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_005">Lithuanian Veterinary Academy, Tilžės 18, LT-471813 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2010</year></pub-date><volume>21</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>455</fpage><lpage>470</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2010</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>08</month><year>2010</year></date></history><abstract><p>In this article, a method is proposed for analysing the thermovision-based video data that characterize the dynamics of temperature anisotropy of the heart tissue in a spatial domain. Many cardiac rhythm disturbances at present time are treated by applying destructive energy sources. One of the most common source and the related methodology is to use radio-frequency ablation procedure. However, the rate of the risk of complications including arrhythmia recurrence remains enough high. The drawback of the methodology used is that the suchlike destruction procedure cannot be monitored by visual spectra and results in the inability to control the ablation efficiency. To the end of understanding the nature of possible complications and controlling the treating process, the means of thermovision could be used. The aim of the study was to analyse possible mechanisms of these complications, measure and determine optimal radio-frequency ablation parameters, according to the analysis of video data, acquired using thermovision.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>data mining</kwd><kwd>image analysis</kwd><kwd>morphological processing</kwd><kwd>clustering</kwd><kwd>thermovision</kwd><kwd>myocardium damage</kwd><kwd>radio-frequency ablation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>