... Editors For a listing of recent related Artech House titles, turn to the back of this book P1: Shashi August 24, 2006 11:32 Chan-Horizon Azuaje˙Book Advanced Methods and Toolsfor ECG Data Analysis ... Description of the Karhunen-Lo` ve Transform e 257 260 263 264 CHAPTER 10 ST Analysis 10.1 ST Segment Analysis: Perspectives and Goals 10.2 Overview of ST Segment Analysis Approaches 10.3 Detection ... Introduction The Electrocardiogram 11.2.1 The ECG Waveform 11.2.2 ECG Interval Analysis 11.2.3 Manual ECG Interval Analysis Automated ECG Interval Analysis The Probabilistic Modeling Approach Data...
... data format be easily converted into other data formats that colleagues might require for viewing or analysis? Clinical formats that are in general use include: the extended European Data Format ... commonly used for electroencephalograms (and more increasingly is becoming the standard for ECGs); HL7 [26, 27] (an XML-based format for the exchange of data in hospitals); and WaveForm DataBase ... plug-ins Therefore, it is easily extensible for any new data formats, programming languages, viewing tools, or signal processing libraries A set of signal processing plugins are available for this...
... Variability,” Ph.D dissertation, University of Oxford, 2002 Clifford, G D., F Azuaje, and P E McSharry, “Advanced Toolsfor ECG Analysis, ” http://www.ecgtools.org/ Press, W H., et al., Numerical Recipes ... the nonlinear nature of the ECG Techniques for nonlinear analysis are therefore presented in Chapter However, before reading the chapter on nonlinear analysis, it is advisable to read the following ... segment are used) Utilization of the LSP, therefore, reveals a theoretical lower information threshold for accepting segments of an RR tachogram for spectral analysis in the upper HF region If RR intervals...
... downsampling, for instance), information is often lost and the transformation is not invertible In general, lossy transformations involve a noninvertible transformation of data using a transformation ... considered For normally distributed time series, semivariograms provide accurate estimates for 1.2 < β < 2.5, rescaled range for 0.0 < β < 0.8, DFA for −0.8 < β < 2.2, and power spectra and wavelets for ... technique for performing JTFA and belongs to a family of JTFA techniques that include the STFT, the Wigner Ville transform (WVT), the Zhao-Atlas-Marks distribution, and the Hilbert transform.2 Unfortunately,...
... wavelets (except for the Haar wavelet) Therefore, bior 3.3 is a good choice for a general ECG filter It should be noted that the filtering performance of each wavelet will be different for different ... relevant information in the ECG Traditional filtering methods, therefore, cannot remove these noises without severely distorting the underlying ECG 5.4.3.4 ICA for Removing Noise on the ECG For the ... Neural Computing Applications, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1998 MacKay, D J C., “Maximum Likelihood and Covariant Algorithms for Independent Component Analysis, ” http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/abstracts/ica.html,...
... sufficient for TWA analysis Some time-domain analyses for TWA found essentially identical results for sampling frequencies of 250 to 1,000 Hz, with only slight deterioration with 100-Hz sampling [46] For ... reimbursement, and the suggestion by the U.S Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the inclusion of TWA analysis in the proposed national registry for SCA management [10] 7.2 Phenomenology ... evaluate and compare the performance of the EDR algorithms, the derived respiratory information should be compared to respiratory information simultaneously recorded Performance measurements may...
... which are visually informative and accessible foranalysis at any time instant Therefore, a technique which converts such point event series into a form suitable for standard analysis techniques ... is not found, the procedure searches forwards in each ECG lead for up to TJ = 68 ms for a part of the waveform which “starts to flatten” (i.e., a part of waveform where slope became smaller than ... conclude that five KLT coefficients for ST segment and five for the QRS complex are sufficient and necessary for separating between noisy and clean patterns and for accurately representing the features...
... waveform in the data set Therefore, we chose to distribute the waveforms at random among the different experts (such that each waveform was measured by one expert only) For each ECG waveform, ... estimator for the parameters of the observation models depends on the specific functional form chosen for these models However, the general estimation procedure for the observation models is straightforward ... measured? How well will the ST analyzer perform in the real world? In this section we describe performance measures and an evaluation protocol for assessing the performance of ST algorithms and analyzers...
... interval analysis systems are unable to differentiate between normal ECG waveforms (for which the automated annotations are generally reliable) and abnormal or unusual ECG waveforms (for which ... interval analysis, however, we can automatically highlight those waveforms which are least suitable to analysis by machine (and thus most in need of analysis by a human expert) This strategy therefore ... which is important for pattern recognition applications The undecimated wavelet transform is also known as the stationary wavelet transform and the translationinvariant wavelet transform P1: Shashi...
... Language (XML) for representing ECG information ecgML [65], a markup language for ECG data acquisition and analysis, has been designed to illustrate the advantages offered by XML for supporting ... of ST segment deviations, 283 performance comparison, 284–85 performance evaluation, 278–87 performance matrices, 281 performance measures, 278–84 real-world performance prediction, 283–84 robustness ... Unsupervised Learning for ECG Classification [65] [66] [67] Wang, H., et al., “A Markup Language for Electrocardiogram Data Acquisition and Analysis (ecgML),” BMC Medical Informatics and Decision...
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... Protein microarrays are powerful toolsfor large-scale biochemical analysis of protein function However, widespread implementation of this technology has been limited owing to the cost and effort ... protein from immobilized cDNAs avoids the need for purification and allows forrapid production of proteins on the array The need for labeling query molecules for detection has limited the number and ... the areas of sensitivity, smaller quantity of protein needed for analysis, and the potential for very large arrays The potential for small sample volume and large arrays can be attributed to...
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... tube protocol forrapid serotyping of dengue viruses This assay can be performed rapidly with in a period of hours compared to hours in two-step typing assays This can provide faster information ... available for coming few years In these circumstances, rapid diagnosis can help in timely patient management The multiplex PCR assay developed in this study will be extremely useful forrapid diagnosis ... problems To improve on this, we report here the development of a one-step single-tube rapidmultiplex PCR assay forrapid detection and differentiation of dengue serotypes in acute phase serum samples...
... as adequate for rough screening A value of above 3.0 is regarded as satisfactory for screening (for example in plant breeding), values of and upward are suitable for quality control analysis, and ... were performed: (a) On each tree, a disk was taken for chemical analysis at half of the commercial height A total of 193 disks were sampled (b) On a subpopulation of 13 trees, chosen for their ... This technology is also being used to an increasing extent in forest and wood sciences For wood products, NIRS is mainly used forrapid prediction of pulp yield and pulping characteristics [11,...
... as well as the Tools: :Sim4 and Tools: :Blast modules for Sim4 and BLAST output parsing Perl is available for all major operating systems and documentation and download information for BioPerl is ... windowbased quality method for aligning high-quality sequences Parameters for this method were set to program defaults All initial primer designs for both methods were performed using default ELXRdb ... by multiple information Results from ELXR include a set of hyperlinks consisting of a Primer3 primer summary for each aligned exon, Sim4 genomic alignments, a primer-pair summary for each aligned...
... out of 18 tools, with 'promoting external contacts' included in seven tools The other items were included in five tools The most representation for this category was sourced from OL tools Knowledge ... x x 60% x x x x x x x x x x x x x 64% *See Table for full names and references for measurement tools resources' were common to all tools Two tools had relatively good coverage of the attributes: ... existing measurement tools has confirmed differences in emphasis across the domains Measurement toolsfor RA and RU focus more on access to new information, leadership, and resources for change, and...
... out of 18 tools, with 'promoting external contacts' included in seven tools The other items were included in five tools The most representation for this category was sourced from OL tools Knowledge ... x x 60% x x x x x x x x x x x x x 64% *See Table for full names and references for measurement tools resources' were common to all tools Two tools had relatively good coverage of the attributes: ... existing measurement tools has confirmed differences in emphasis across the domains Measurement toolsfor RA and RU focus more on access to new information, leadership, and resources for change, and...