Improvement and limitation of the reliability of automated QT measurement by recent algorithms

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-325

  Tyl, Benoît ^a   Azzam, Sara ^b   Blanco, Nathalie ^c   Wheeler, William ^b  

^a Department of Cardiology   (France)

^b CELERION   (United States)

^c Centralized Cardiac Services   (France)

Author keywords

Automated algorithms; Long QT syndrome; QT interval; QT measurement; QTcB

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CARDIOLOGIST; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79955070980     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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