Automatic real-time ECG coding methodology guaranteeing signal interpretation quality

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2519-2527

  Alesanco, Álvaro ^a   García, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical evaluation; ECG coding; Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC WAYS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; ECG CODING; ECG COMPRESSIONS; ECG SIGNALS; MEAN OPINION SCORES; NOISE ESTIMATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITIES; SET PARTITIONING IN HIERARCHICAL TREES (SPIHT); SET PARTITIONING IN HIERARCHICAL TREES ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL INTERPRETATIONS; VISUAL QUALITIES; WAVELET DOMAINS;

DATA COMPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE CODING; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DATA COMPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 55749107650     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2001263     Document Type: Article

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