Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 26-37 , January 2007

A new approach to QRS segmentation based on wavelet bases and adaptive threshold technique

Received 30 August 2005 ,Revised 2 January 2006 ,Accepted 17 January 2006.

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Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 26-37 , January 2007