MicroECG: AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM FOR THE CARDIAC ARRYTHMIA DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION, 2009-FCT
Author:
Bruno Nascimento
Supervisors:
Arnaldo Batista
Manuel Ortigueira
Abstract:
The development of a software package able to easily deal with high-resolution electrocardiograms has became important to the research within the area of electrocardiography. The development of new late potentials detection techniques and other problems associated to cardiac arrhythmia have been studied. However, there is still the need of a software package that can easily implement some of these innovative techniques in an integrated form, allowing the evaluation of some classic techniques such as the Simson’s protocol to the detection of non-stationary signals (late potentials). Some of these innovative techniques are the time-frequency analysis through scalograms and the spectral analysis using the wavelet packet methodologies and they were implemented in the developed software with flexibility and versatility enough to allow, in the future, that this software could be able to be used as a platform to refine these same techniques in a signal processing approach. The developed software was designed to support two different data files from two also different acquisition systems. The supported systems are the Biosemi’s ActiveTwo and g.tec’s USBamp.
Thesis link: http://run.unl.pt/bitstream/10362/7281/1/MicroECG_Tese%20Bruno%20Nascimento_2009.pdf
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