Fast QRS Detection with an Optimized Knowledge-Based Method: Evaluation on 11 Standard ECG Databases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Elgendi, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PR INTERVAL; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QRS COMPLEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84884189764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073557     Document Type: Article

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