Classification tree for risk assessment in patients suffering from congestive heart failure via long-term heart rate variability

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 727-733

  Melillo, Paolo ^a,b   De Luca, Nicola ^c   Bracale, Marcello ^d   Pecchia, Leandro ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure (CHF); Data mining; Decision tree; Heart rate variability (HRV)

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HEART; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ASSOCIATION CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; CLASSIFICATION TREES; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURES; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; LONG TERM HEART RATE VARIABILITIES; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA MINING; DECISION TREE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884893460     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2244902     Document Type: Article

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