Time-domain and morphological analysis of the p-wave. part I: Technical aspects for automatic quantification of p-wave features

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 874-883

  Censi, Federica ^a   Ricci, Chiara ^b   Calcagnini, Giovanni ^a   Triventi, Michele ^a   Ricci, Renato P ^c   Santini, Massimo ^c   Bartolini, Pietro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alignment method; Atrial fibrillation; Morphological analysis; P wave; Signal averaging; Time domain analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; P WAVE; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55249102988     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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