Key result
A novel wavelet transform algorithm successfully detected R peaks and T and P wave maxima in ECG signals from the MIT/BIH database, demonstrating robustness.
A novel wavelet transform-based algorithm demonstrates robustness in automatically detecting R peaks, T, and P wave maxima in ECG signals.
May facilitate automated ECG analysis in research; leaves open prospective clinical validation.
This paper deals with the application of a novel approach for ECG signal characteristic points detection by wavelet transform. The aim of this work is to detect automatically the R peaks, the T and P wave maxima, separately. After having represented the ECG equivalent in time frequency domain, we detect the complex QRS maximum and the T wave using the truncation of these waves by rectangular window. The influence of scale levels in our proposed algorithm is tested for a large amount of ECG signals. Results are given for signals extracted from the MIT/BIH database, confirming the robustness of our approach
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Ktata et al. (2006) studied ECG signal analysis. Wavelet transform algorithm was evaluated on Detection of R peaks, T and P wave maxima. A novel wavelet transform algorithm successfully detected R peaks and T and P wave maxima in ECG signals from the MIT/BIH database, demonstrating robustness.
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