SIMULATION METHODS FOR THE ONLINE EXTRACTION OF ECG PARAMETERS UNDER MATLAB ® /SIMULINK ®

The classification of cardiac pathologies in the human ECG greatly depends on the reliable extraction of characteristic features. This work presents a complete simulation environment for testing ECG classification algorithms under Matlab/Simulink. Evaluation of algorithm performance is undertaken in full compliance with the ANSI/AAMI standards EC38 and EC57, and ranges from beat-to-beat analysis to the comparison of episode markers (e.g., for VT/VF detection algorithms). For testing the quality of waveform boundary detection, our own testing methods have been implemented in compliance with existing literature.

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