Recovery of beat-to-beat variations of QRS. 1998

K Lund, and E H Christiansen, and B Lund, and A K Pedersen
Department of Cardiology, Skejby University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. kasparlund@bigfoot.com

There is a growing interest in the analysis of beat-to-beat variations of the morphology (BBM) of cardiac waves in electrocardiograms (ECG). Such analyses are confronted with the low BBM-to-noise ratio. An ECG clustering technique is introduced that brings the benefits of signal averaging to BBM analysis and recovers the beat-to-beat pattern of BBM. ECG clustering aligns waves and sorts them into clusters. The precision of the alignment was enhanced by sub-sample alignment. Kohonen's self-organising neural networks identified the clusters of the cardiac waves during training. The subsequent clustering of a wave results in a label for the closest cluster, a distance to the cluster and optimal alignment. Furthermore, ECG clustering avoids base-line variations and amplitude modulation sufficiently to be applied to the QRS wave in the raw ECG. The technique is demonstrated on 14 subjects with coronary heart disease and no myocardial infarction, myocardial infarction, or inducible ventricular tachycardia. ECG clustering is a general-purpose technique for beat-to-beat analysis, where the variations are cyclic as in the sinus rhythm. Results show that beat-to-beat variations in the QRS morphology are in general cyclic, with a main period of about four cardiac cycles. All calculations were performed with the Cardio software.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D003327 Coronary Disease An imbalance between myocardial functional requirements and the capacity of the CORONARY VESSELS to supply sufficient blood flow. It is a form of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA (insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle) caused by a decreased capacity of the coronary vessels. Coronary Heart Disease,Coronary Diseases,Coronary Heart Diseases,Disease, Coronary,Disease, Coronary Heart,Diseases, Coronary,Diseases, Coronary Heart,Heart Disease, Coronary,Heart Diseases, Coronary
D004562 Electrocardiography Recording of the moment-to-moment electromotive forces of the HEART as projected onto various sites on the body's surface, delineated as a scalar function of time. The recording is monitored by a tracing on slow moving chart paper or by observing it on a cardioscope, which is a CATHODE RAY TUBE DISPLAY. 12-Lead ECG,12-Lead EKG,12-Lead Electrocardiography,Cardiography,ECG,EKG,Electrocardiogram,Electrocardiograph,12 Lead ECG,12 Lead EKG,12 Lead Electrocardiography,12-Lead ECGs,12-Lead EKGs,12-Lead Electrocardiographies,Cardiographies,ECG, 12-Lead,EKG, 12-Lead,Electrocardiograms,Electrocardiographies, 12-Lead,Electrocardiographs,Electrocardiography, 12-Lead
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012815 Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted Computer-assisted processing of electric, ultrasonic, or electronic signals to interpret function and activity. Digital Signal Processing,Signal Interpretation, Computer-Assisted,Signal Processing, Digital,Computer-Assisted Signal Interpretation,Computer-Assisted Signal Interpretations,Computer-Assisted Signal Processing,Interpretation, Computer-Assisted Signal,Interpretations, Computer-Assisted Signal,Signal Interpretation, Computer Assisted,Signal Interpretations, Computer-Assisted,Signal Processing, Computer Assisted
D016571 Neural Networks, Computer A computer architecture, implementable in either hardware or software, modeled after biological neural networks. Like the biological system in which the processing capability is a result of the interconnection strengths between arrays of nonlinear processing nodes, computerized neural networks, often called perceptrons or multilayer connectionist models, consist of neuron-like units. A homogeneous group of units makes up a layer. These networks are good at pattern recognition. They are adaptive, performing tasks by example, and thus are better for decision-making than are linear learning machines or cluster analysis. They do not require explicit programming. Computational Neural Networks,Connectionist Models,Models, Neural Network,Neural Network Models,Neural Networks (Computer),Perceptrons,Computational Neural Network,Computer Neural Network,Computer Neural Networks,Connectionist Model,Model, Connectionist,Model, Neural Network,Models, Connectionist,Network Model, Neural,Network Models, Neural,Network, Computational Neural,Network, Computer Neural,Network, Neural (Computer),Networks, Computational Neural,Networks, Computer Neural,Networks, Neural (Computer),Neural Network (Computer),Neural Network Model,Neural Network, Computational,Neural Network, Computer,Neural Networks, Computational,Perceptron

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