Receiver-operating-characteristic analysis reveals superiority of scale-dependent wavelet and spectral measures for assessing cardiac dysfunction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 5688-5691

  Thurner, Stefan ^a,c   Feurstein, Markus C ^a,d   Lowen, Steven B ^a   Teich, Malvin C ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

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EID: 0001581238     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5688     Document Type: Article

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