Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation Detection by a Sequential Hypothesis Testing Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1990, Pages 837-843

  Thakor, Nitish V ^a   Zhu, Yi Sheng ^a   Pan, Kong Yan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING--SIGNAL ENCODING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SEQUENTIAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING ALGORITHM; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TACHYCARDIA; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0025483745     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.58594     Document Type: Article

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