A new feature detection mechanism and its application in secured ECG transmission with noise masking

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-132

  Sufi, Fahim ^a   Khalil, Ibrahim ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ECG encryption; ECG feature detection; ECG obfuscation; HIPAA; Securing ECG data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 61349145018     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-008-9172-6     Document Type: Article

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