A novel method for detection of the transition between atrial fibrillation and sinus rhythm

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1113-1119

  Huang, Chao ^a   Ye, Shuming ^a   Chen, Hang ^a   Li, Dingli ^a   He, Fangtian ^b   Tu, Yuewen ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation (AF); delta RR interval distribution difference curve (dRDDC); RR interval

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLINICAL THERAPY; DATA SETS; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; HOLTER ECG; K-S TEST; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; MIT-BIH DATABASE; NORMAL SINUS RHYTHM; NOVEL METHODS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RR INTERVAL; RR INTERVALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM; STANDARD DEVIATION ANALYSIS;

DISEASES; GRAPHIC METHODS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DELTA RHYTHM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART RHYTHM; HISTOGRAM; HOLTER MONITORING; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RR INTERVAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS RHYTHM;

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

EID: 79953004761     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2096506     Document Type: Article

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