ECG signal quality during arrhythmia and its application to false alarm reduction

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1660-1666

  Behar, Joachim ^a   Oster, Julien ^a   Li, Qiao ^a   Clifford, Gari D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrocardiogram (ECG); intensive care unit (ICU); signal quality

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FALSE ALARM REDUCTIONS; NOISE STRESS TEST; NORMAL SINUS RHYTHM; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL QUALITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TRAINING;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CLINICAL ALARMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84877912344     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2240452     Document Type: Article

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