A novel mobile transtelephonic system with synthesized 12-lead ECG

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 428-438

  Hadžievski, Ljupčo ^a   Bojović, Boško ^a   Vukčević, Vladan ^b   Beličev, Petar ^a   Pavlović, Siniša ^b   Vasiljević Pokrajčić, Zorana ^b   Ostojić, Miodrag ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Mobile communication

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; TELEMEDICINE;

MOBILE TRANSTELEPHONIC SYSTEM; PATIENT TRANSFORMATION MATRIX;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MINIATURIZATION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 10644264474     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2004.837869     Document Type: Article

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