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The paper deals with description of methods for delineation of ECG waves. The methods are based on continuous wavelet transform and its complex-valued form. The aim is to detect extrema (minima and maxima) and inflection points. Modulus of time-frequency spectra of the analysed signals are used to generate maximum curves. Phase of time-frequency spectra are post-processed by thresholding to detect phase steps corresponding to significant parts of signal waves. The methods were tested on ECG signals from standard libraries using common complex-valued Morlet wavelet No.2.
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Provaznik, I., Bardonova, J. (2007). Delineation of ECG Waves Using Complex-Valued Continuous Wavelet Transform. In: Müller-Karger, C., Wong, S., La Cruz, A. (eds) IV Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering 2007, Bioengineering Solutions for Latin America Health. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74471-9_37
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