A Syntactic Methodology for Automatic Diagnosis by Analysis of Continuous Time Measurements Using Hierarchical Signal Representations

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 951-965

  Tümer, M Borahan ^a   Belfore II, Lee A ^b   Ropella, Kristina M ^c  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic ECG diagnosis; Fuzzy automata; Fuzzy syntactic analysis; Neural networks; Nonlinear system identification; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESONANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTACTICS; VECTORS;

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL REPRESENTATION;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0345258461     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2002.804365     Document Type: Article

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