Detecting ventricular fibrillation by time-delay methods

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 174-177

  Amann, Anton ^a,b   Tratnig, Robert ^c   Unterkofler, Karl ^d  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FH Vorarlberg   (Austria)

^d VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator (AED); ECG analysis; Sinus rhythm (SR); Ventricular fibrillation (VF); Ventricular fibrillation detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (AED); SINUS RHYTHM (SR); VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION (VF); VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION DETECTION;

BIOMECHANICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33846363898     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.880909     Document Type: Article

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