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Methods Inf Med 1994; 33(02): 187-195
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1635014
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Time-Frequency Analysis of Ventricular Late Potentials

H. Dickhaus
1   Department of Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg and School of Technology Heilbronn
,
L. Khadra
2   Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan
,
J. Brachmann
3   University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany
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08 February 2018 (online)

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Abstract:

The time-frequency characteristics are studied of averaged and filtered ECG records from 21 patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia and 29 healthy control subjects. Simulated data as well as real ECG records reveal the detection accuracy of the wavelet transform of signals with late potentials. The wavelet-transforms of preprocessed ECG signals are plotted in the time-frequency plane. These representations of the signals are well suited to describe the different characteristics of the patients and healthy subjects. A quantitative discrimination was performed with a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 72% by the energy underneath the squared modulus of the time-frequency distribution plots of the computed wavelet transforms.

Keywords

Wavelet Transformation - Wigner Transformation - Late Potentials - Ventricular Tachycardia - Time-Frequency Analysis
 

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