Real-time multichannel system for beat-to-beat QT interval variability

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 358-367

  Starc, Vito ^a   Schlegel, Todd T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrocardiography; Principal component analysis; Signal averaging; Singular value decomposition; T wave morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; P WAVE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; T WAVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIA; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33748972647     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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