The effect of signal averaging on the reproducibility and reliability of measures of T-wave morphology

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 266-270

  Batdorf, Bjorn H ^a   Feiveson, Alan H ^b   Schlegel, Todd T ^b  

^a National Space Biomedical Research Institute   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Median beat; Principal component analysis; Repolarization heterogeneity; Signal averaging; Singular value decomposition; T wave residuum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; T WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33744945039     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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