New developments in the automatic analysis of the surface ECG: The case of atrial fibrillation

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 207-221

  Chiarugi, Franco ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification of atrial fibrillation; Digital electrocardiography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RHYTHM; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; P WAVE; POWER SPECTRUM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINUS RHYTHM; SPECTROSCOPY; T WAVE;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION TREES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 54949098217     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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