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The aim of the study is to investigate the potential of a feedforward neural network for detecting wavelet preprocessed late potentials. The terminal parts of a simulated QRS complex are processed with a continuous wavelet transform, which leads to a time-frequency represenation of the QRS complex. Then, diagnostic feature vectors are obtained by subdividing the representations into several regions and by processing the sum of the decomposition coefficients belonging to each region. The neural network is trained with these feature vectors. Simulated ECGs with varying signalto-noise ratios are used to train and test the classifier. Results show that correct classification ranges from 79% (high-level noise) to 99% (no noise). The study shows the potential of neural networks for the classification of late potentials that have been preprocessed by a wavelet transform. However, clinical use of this method still requires further investigation.
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Rakotomamonjy, A., Migeon, B. & Marche, P. Automated neural network detection of wavelet preprocessed electrocardiogram late potentials. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 36, 346–350 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02522481
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