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A FORTRAN program has been developed for locating intestinal spike bursts and for estimating their strength. Tested against human scanning, the reliability rate was 92% and the misrecognition rate was 2.5%.
This program was applied to the automatisation of the Migrating Myoelectric Complex analysis. A first method computed the percentage of Basic Electrical Rhythm (BER) cycles with superimposed spike bursts. A second one was based on the evaluation of spike bursts strength.
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Pousse, A., Mendel, C., Kachelhoffer, J. et al. Computer program for intestinal spike bursts recognition. Pflugers Arch. 381, 15–18 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00582326
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