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Yang et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2012, 11:16 /content/11/1/16 RESEARCH Open Access Spatiotemporal representation of cardiac vectorcardiogram (VCG) signals Hui Yang1*, Satish T S Bukkapatnam2 and Ranga Komanduri3 * Correspondence: huiyang@ Abstract 1Department of Industrial Management System Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Background: Vectorcardiogram (VCG) signals monitor both spatial and temporal cardiac FL, USA electrical activities along three orthogonal planes of the body. However, the absence of Full list of author information is spatiotemporal resolution in conventional VCG representations is a major impediment for available at the end of the article medical interpretation and clinical usage of VCG. This is especially so because time- domain features of 12-lead ECG, instead of both spatial and temporal characteristics of VCG, are widely used for the automatic assessment of cardiac pathological patterns. Materials and methods: We present a novel representation approach that captures critical spatiotemporal heart dynamics by displaying the real time motion of VCG cardiac vectors in a 3D space. Such a dynamic display can also be realized with only one lead ECG signal (e.g., ambulatory ECG) through an alternative lag-reconstructed ECG representation from nonlinear dynamics principles. Furthermore, the trajectories are color coded with additional dynamical properties of space-time VCG signals,