Electrocardiogram signal preprocessing for automatic detection of QRS boundaries

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Daskalov, I K ^a   Christov, I I ^a  

^a CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

QRS boundaries detection; Signal approximation; Subtraction filter

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

QRS BOUNDARIES DETECTION; SIGNAL APPROXIMATION; SIGNAL PREPROCESSING; SUBTRACTION FILTER;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; INTERFEROMETER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032941256     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(99)00016-8     Document Type: Article

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