Feature extraction and classification of fetal heart rate using wavelet analysis and support vector machines

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 411-432

  Georgoulas, George ^a   Stylios, Chrysostomos ^b   Groumpos, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

Author keywords

Discrete Wavelet Transform; Fetal Heart Rate; Support Vector Machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746227691     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213006002746     Document Type: Article

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