Automatic arrhythmia detection based on time and time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-108

  Tsipouras, Markos G ^a   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia detection; Heart rate variability; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; NEURAL NETWORKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; RR INTERVAL; TIME;

ARRHYTHMIA; AUTOMATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 1542375476     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(03)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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