The EINTHOVEN system: toward an improved cardiac arrhythmia monitor.
Contemporary cardiac arrhythmia monitors, used commonly in intensive care settings, are highly sensitive to artifact, resulting in high false alarm rates, inability to detect P waves reliably, and crude rhythm interpretation. We report on two new approaches that address these problems: a noise preprocessor that characterizes the type and degree of artifact in an ECG, and a model-based rhythm interpretation algorithm.
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Research Service, Albuquerque Veterans Administration Medical Center, NM.
D000465:Algorithms; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016477:Artifacts; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted