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ECG Segmentation by Adaptive Rational Transform

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Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2019 (EUROCAST 2019)

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We propose a novel method to delineate and segment ECG heartbeats, i.e. to provide model curves for the P, QRS, and T waves, and to extract the fiducial points of them. The main idea of our method is to apply an adaptive transformation by means of rational functions to model the heartbeats and their waveforms. We suggest to represent the heartbeats with a linear combination of rational functions that are selected adaptively to the ECG signals through a non-linear optimization. This leads to a simple, yet morphologically accurate description of the heartbeats, and results a direct segmentation of them. Then, we derived the fiducial points based on the analytical model curves extracted from the rational representation. Multiple geometric concepts and their combination is discussed to this order. The evaluations were performed on the QT Database, and the results are compared to the previous ones, proving the efficiency of our method.

G. Bognár—Supported by the ÚNKP-18-3 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary.

S. Fridli—EFOP-3.6.3-VEKOP-16-2017-00001: Talent Management in Autonomous Vehicle Control Technologies - The Project is supported by the Hungarian Government and co-financed by the European Social Fund.

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Bognár, G., Fridli, S. (2020). ECG Segmentation by Adaptive Rational Transform. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2019. EUROCAST 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45096-0_43

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