A real-time automated point-process method for the detection and correction of erroneous and ectopic heartbeats

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2828-2837

  Citi, Luca ^a,b   Brown, Emery N ^a,b   Barbieri, Riccardo ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; ectopic beats; erroneous R R intervals; heart rate variability; point processes

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMIAS; ECTOPIC BEATS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; POINT PROCESS; RR INTERVALS;

HEART; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE MONITOR; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; MONITOR; ONLINE MONITORING; PATIENT MONITORING; R WAVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC COMPLEXES, PREMATURE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84866545202     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2211356     Document Type: Article

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