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T Wave Alternans Analysis in ECG Signal: A Survey of the Principal Approaches

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The T wave alternans (TWA) is an important phenomenon not only within the clinical field but within the scientific and technological field, it has been considered an important, non-invasive, very promising indicator to stratify the risk of sudden cardiac death. Due to its microvolt amplitude and background noises, sophisticated signal processing techniques are required for its detection and estimation. In this paper we present a survey of the state of the art focusing to detect sudden cardiac death by analyzing the T wave on long-term ECG signals.

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  1. Departamento de Informática y Ciencias de la Computación, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

    Nancy Betancourt

  2. Departamento de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE, Quito, Ecuador

    Nancy Betancourt

  3. Departamento de Matemática, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador

    Carlos Almeida

  4. Department of Intelligent Systems, I&H Tech, Latacunga (Cotopaxi), Ecuador

    Marco Flores-Calero

  5. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE, Quito, Ecuador

    Marco Flores-Calero

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  2. Facultad de Geografía, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago Compostela, La Coruña, Spain

    Carlos Ferrás

  3. Departamento de Eléctrica, Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas “ESPE”, Sangolqui, Ecuador

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Betancourt, N., Almeida, C., Flores-Calero, M. (2019). T Wave Alternans Analysis in ECG Signal: A Survey of the Principal Approaches. In: Rocha, Á., Ferrás, C., Paredes, M. (eds) Information Technology and Systems. ICITS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 918. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11890-7_41

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