Detection of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias using the wavelet transformation

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 626-632

  Khadra, L ^a   Al Fahoum, A S ^b   Al Nashash, H ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia; Wavelet transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEMODYNAMICS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0031281333     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02510970     Document Type: Article

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