Classification of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation in ambulatory ECG recordings

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1441-1449

  Alcaraz, Raúl ^a   Sandberg, Frida ^b   Sörnmo, Leif ^b   Rieta, José Joaquín ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; atrial organization; dominant atrial frequency; electrocardiogram; filter bank; hidden Markov model; sample entropy

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL ORGANIZATION; DOMINANT ATRIAL FREQUENCY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; SAMPLE ENTROPY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

FILTER BANKS;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79955538914     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2112658     Document Type: Article

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