Phase-rectified signal averaging used to estimate the dominant frequencies in ECG signals during atrial fibrillation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2538-2547

  Lemay, Mathieu ^a   Prudat, Yann ^a   Jacquemet, Vincent ^b   Vesin, Jean Marc ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation (AF); Dominant frequency (DF); Electrocardiogram (ECG); Phase rectified signal averaging (PRSA)

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (AF); ATRIAL FIBRILLATIONS; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURES; DOMINANT FREQUENCIES; DOMINANT FREQUENCY (DF); ECG SIGNALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG); PERIODIC SIGNALS; PHASE-RECTIFIED SIGNAL AVERAGING (PRSA); SIGNAL AVERAGING; SIGNAL COMPONENTS;

ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOGRAM; PHASE RECTIFIED SIGNAL AVERAGING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 55749087360     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2001296     Document Type: Article

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