The correlation dimension in rest ECG: a study in normal and arrhythmic patients

Author

Bortolan, G. ; Casaleggio, A.

Author_Institution

LADSEB, CNR, Padova, Italy

fYear

1995

fDate

10-13 Sept. 1995

Firstpage

393

Lastpage

396

Abstract

A study on the results obtained from a computerized estimation of the correlation dimension (D/sub 2/) in short term rest ECG is described. Using D/sub 2/ we investigate the possibility to distinguish between normal and atrial flutter/fibrillatian tracings. The results have been obtained considering 28 short term ECG signals, 13 of those recorded from arrhythmic patients and 15 coming from normal subjects. From this study two observations have been pointed out: (i) ECG tracings from patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter present a higher value of the D/sub 2/ than those obtained from normal subjects; (ii) The values of some working parameters (the number of points and the time delay for phase space reconstruction) have been changed in order to check the robustness of results. The influence on D/sub 2/ estimates has been discussed.

Keywords

correlation methods; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; statistical analysis; arrhythmic patients; atrial flutter/fibrillatian tracings; correlation dimension; normal patients; phase space reconstruction; rest ECG; short term rest ECG; time delay; working parameters; Atrial fibrillation; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Electrocardiography; Linear systems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Phase estimation; Robustness; Signal analysis; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1995

Conference_Location

Vienna, Austria

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3053-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1995.482668

Filename

482668