A low-complexity ECG feature extraction algorithm for mobile healthcare applications

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 459-469

  Mazomenos, Evangelos B ^a   Biswas, Dwaipayan ^a   Acharyya, Amit ^b   Chen, Taihai ^a   Maharatna, Koushik ^a   Rosengarten, James ^a,c   Morgan, John ^a,c   Curzen, Nick ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete wavelet transform (DWT); Electrocardiogram (ECG) feature extraction; Low complexity algorithm; Mobile healthcare

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; MHEALTH; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MONITORING; ECG FEATURE EXTRACTIONS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; LOW COMPLEXITY ALGORITHM; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885095721     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2231312     Document Type: Article

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