A method for quantifying atrial fibrillation organization based on wave-morphology similarity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 12 I, 2002, Pages 1504-1513

  Faes, Luca ^a,b   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a,c   Antolini, Renzo ^a,b   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^d   Ravelli, Flavia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c ITC IRST   (Italy)

^d MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation (AF); Endocardial signals; Rhythm classification; Signal processing; Tachyarrhythmia organization; Waveform morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CATHETERS; POLARIZATION;

LOCAL ACTIVATION WAVES (LAWS);

MORPHOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEPOLARIZATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BUNDLE OF HIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036936825     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.805472     Document Type: Article

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