Online digital filter and QRS detector applicable in low resource ECG monitoring systems

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1805-1815

  Tabakov, Serafim ^a   Iliev, Ivo ^a   Krasteva, Vessela ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Baseline wander; ECG monitoring of high risk cardiac patients; ECG preprocessing; High pass filtering; Power line interference filtering; QRS detection; Real time ECG analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DETECTORS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; HIGH PASS FILTERS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POROUS MATERIALS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SETTLING TANKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

BASELINE WANDER; ECG MONITORING OF HIGH-RISK CARDIAC PATIENTS; ECG PREPROCESSING; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; POWER-LINE INTERFERENCE FILTERING; QRS DETECTION; REAL-TIME ECG ANALYSIS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 54849413355     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-008-9553-5     Document Type: Article

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