Time-frequency plane Wiener filtering of the high-resolution ECG: Background and time-frequency representations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 247-255

  Lander, Paul ^a,c   Berbari, Edward J ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; time varying filtering; Wiener filtering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031003321     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.563294     Document Type: Article

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