Fractal character of the electrocardiogram: Distinguishing heart-failure and normal patients

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 269-293

  Turcott, Robert G ^a,b   Teich, Malvin C ^a,c,d  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

1 f Noise; Chaos; Electrocardiogram; Fractal; Heart failure; Point process; Time series

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

HEART FAILURE; INTEREVENT INTERVAL HISTOGRAM; POINT PROCESS;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART BEAT; HEART FAILURE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; NOISE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0030110864     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02667355     Document Type: Article

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