Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 876-887 , November 2006

Comparative study of morphological and time-frequency ECG descriptors for heartbeat classification

  • Ivaylo Christov

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Biomedical Engineering ‘Prof. Ivan Daskalov’, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. Bl. 105, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +359 2 979 3635; fax: +359 2 723787.
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  • Gèrman Gómez-Herrero

      Affiliations

    • Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN 33101 Tampere, Finland
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  • Vessela Krasteva

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Biomedical Engineering ‘Prof. Ivan Daskalov’, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. Bl. 105, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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  • Irena Jekova

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Biomedical Engineering ‘Prof. Ivan Daskalov’, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. Bl. 105, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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  • Atanas Gotchev

      Affiliations

    • Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN 33101 Tampere, Finland
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  • Karen Egiazarian

      Affiliations

    • Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 553, FIN 33101 Tampere, Finland

Received 11 October 2005 ,Revised 7 December 2005 ,Accepted 29 December 2005.

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PII: S1350-4533(06)00004-X

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.12.010

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 9 , Pages 876-887 , November 2006

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