Fast detection of venous air embolism in Doppler heart sound using the wavelet transform

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 237-246

  Chan, Brent C B ^a,c   Chan, Francis H Y ^a   Lam, K ^a   Lui, Ping Wing ^b   Poon, Paul W F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Precordial doppler ultrasound; venous air embolism; wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART SOUND; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOGS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART SOUNDS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0030898265     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.563293     Document Type: Article

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