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. 2025 Oct 13;12(10):1102. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering12101102
3D Three Dimensional
AF Atrial Fibrillation
AFib Atrial Fibrillation
AIx Ablation Index
AI Artificial Intelligence
AI-ECG Artificial-Intelligence Electrocardiography
APD Action Potential Duration
ARL Association Rule Learning
BPV Blood-Pressure Variability
CABANA Catheter ABlation vs. ANtiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation (trial)
CDSS Clinical Decision Support Systems
CE Conformité Européenne
CHEERS Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards
CIED Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device
CMR Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
CRT Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
CT Computed Tomography
CV Conduction Velocity
CVAE Conditional Variational Autoencoder
DBSCAN Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise
DL Deep Learning
DPIA Data Protection Impact Assessment
DT Digital Twin
EAM Electroanatomical Mapping
EAT Epicardial Adipose Tissue
ECG Electrocardiogram
ECGi Electrocardiographic Imaging
EGM Intracardiac Electrogram
edge-AI On-device/edge Artificial Intelligence
EHR Electronic Health Record
EU European Union
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FU Follow Up
GCNN Graph Convolutional Neural Network
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GMLP Good Machine Learning Practice
HF Heart Failure
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HRV Heart-Rate Variability
ICD Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
ICE Intracardiac Echocardiography
inFAT CT-derived intramyocardial/epicardial fat marker
LA Left Atrium
LGE-CMR Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
LSI Lesion Size Index
LSR Least-Squares Regression
MDR Medical Device Regulation
MLOps Machine Learning Operations
NN Neural Network(s)
OOD Out-Of-Distribution
PCA Principal Component Analysis
PCCP Predetermined Change Control Plan
PINN Physics-Informed Neural Network
PMA Premarket Approval
PPG Photoplethysmography
PTB-XL Public ECG dataset “PTB-XL”
PTB-XL+ Extended release of PTB-XL
PVI Pulmonary Vein Isolation
RA Right Atrium
RF Radiofrequency
RVI Reentry Vulnerability Index
SaMD Software as a Medical Device
SSI Systolic Stretch Index
t-SNE t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
TinyML Tiny/embedded Machine Learning
U-Net U-Net convolutional architecture
UMAP Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
VF Ventricular Fibrillation
VT Ventricular Tachycardia
XAI Explainable Artificial Intelligence