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Authors

Shima Gholinezhadasnefestani, Andriy Temko, Nathan Stevenson, Geraldine Boylan, Gordon Lightbody,William Marnane

Conference Title

2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC)

Title of Paper

Assessment of quality of ECG for accurate estimation of Heart Rate Variability in newborns

Year

2015

Month

August

Status

In Press

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Times Cited

Scopus: 3 ()

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Start Page

5863

End Page

5866

Location

Milan, Italy

Start Date

25-AUG-15

End Date

29-AUG-15

Abstract

Heart Rate Variability has been recently used to determine the severity of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy in neonates. However, it was shown that ECG and subsequently Instantaneous Heart Rate can be heavily corrupted by artefacts which have to be manually removed. This work analyses a set of features to assess their sensitivity to normal and corrupted ECG in newborns. Specifically, the IHR signal is obtained by detecting R-Peaks using the Pan-Tompkins algorithm. Four features are extracted from both ECG and IHR signal using various temporal resolutions to discriminate normal and corrupted signal. The performance of these features in discrimination is then assessed using statistical tests.

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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7319725/

DOI Link

10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319725

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