How genetic algorithms can improve a pacemaker efficiency

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Material

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2681-2686

  Dumas, Laurent ^a   El Alaoui, Linda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Electrical activity; Heart; Optimization

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; ELECTRODES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; PACEMAKERS; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; HEART; SYSTEMATIC POSITIONING;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34548101652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1274000.1274071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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