Reliable automated QT interval measurement for clinical evaluation

Author

Chen, X. ; Xie, W. ; Dong, L. ; Tin, ZK ; Sankaranarayanan, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infocomm Res., Nanyang

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

376

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop a reliable automated method of QT interval measurement for ECG signals, and to participate the PhysioNet/Computers in Cardiology Challenge 2006. A scheme based on Kalman filter was proposed to conduct beat segmentation and searching of the first representative beat from ECG waveform, and a wavelet based algorithm was used to detect the onset of QRS complex and the offset of T wave which yield the measurement ofQT interval. Our preliminary QT measurement results have been submitted to CinC for performance evaluation and further improvement to the algorithms and system is carried out.

Keywords

Kalman filters; electrocardiography; medical computing; performance evaluation; ECG signals; ECG waveform; Kalman filter; QRS complex; T wave; automated QT interval measurement; beat segmentation; clinical evaluation; first representative beat; performance evaluation; wavelet based algorithm; Automatic testing; Cardiology; Costs; Electrocardiography; Gaussian noise; Heart rate interval; Noise measurement; Pollution measurement; Time measurement; Tin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2006

Conference_Location

Valencia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2532-7

Type

conf

Filename

4511866