Title
Clustering of electrocardiograph signals in computer-aided Holter analysis.
Abstract
A number of methods for temporal alignment, feature extraction and clustering of electrocardiographic signals are proposed. The ultimate aim of the paper is to find a method to automatically reduce the quantity of beats to examine in a long-term electrocardiographic signal, known as Holter signal, without loss of valuable information for the diagnosis. These signals include thousands of beats and therefore visual inspection is difficult and cumbersome. All the elements involved in each stage will be described and a thorough experimental study will be presented. The electrocardiograph signals used in the experiments belong to the well-known MIT database, where many different waveforms can be found. Based on the results of the experiments, a complete process is proposed to obtain the significant beats present within a signal, with a reasonable computational cost. Hence, cardiologists will only have to examine a small but fully representative subset of beats, making this method a very useful tool for medical decision support systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0169-2607(02)00145-1
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Electrocardiogram,Holter register,Medical decision support systems,Signal clustering,Signal feature extraction
Data mining,Signal clustering,Visual inspection,Computer science,Computer-aided,Decision support system,Waveform,Feature extraction,Cluster analysis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
3
0169-2607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.52
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Cuesta-Frau114923.78
Juan C. Pérez-Cortés213716.20
Gabriela Andreu García3306.03