Is it possible to distinguish different types of ECG-holter beats based solely on features obtained from windowed QRS complex?

The main focus of this paper is to investigate the possibility to distinguish among different classes of beats, as provided by ANSI/AAMI EC57:1998 standard, from the ECG holter recordings. We compare the performance of an ensemble classifier based on three classifiers on distinguishing ECG beats from holter recordings characterized by two distinct sets of features.

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