Decision support in heart failure through processing of electro- and echocardiograms

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-104

  Chiarugi, Franco ^a   Colantonio, Sara ^b   Emmanouilidou, Dimitra ^a   Martinelli, Massimo ^b   Moroni, Davide ^b   Salvetti, Ovidio ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Echocardiographic image analysis; Electrocardiographic signal processing; Heart failure; Ontologies; Rule based reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; CLINICAL PARAMETERS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; END-USERS; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; KEY COMPONENT; KNOW-HOW; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; RULE BASED REASONING; SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; WORK-FLOWS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CARDIOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77957111717     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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