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Maximum likelihood analysis of cardiac late potentials


Abstract:

This study presents a new time-domain method for the detection of late potentials in individual leads. Basic statistical properties of the ECG samples are modeled in orde...Show More

Abstract:

This study presents a new time-domain method for the detection of late potentials in individual leads. Basic statistical properties of the ECG samples are modeled in order to estimate the amplitude and duration of late potentials. The signal model accounts for correlation in both time and across the ensemble of beats. Late potentials are modeled as a colored process with unknown amplitude which is disturbed by white, Gaussian noise. Maximum likelihood estimation is applied to the model for estimating the amplitude of the late potentials. The resulting estimator consists of an eigenvector-based filter followed by a nonlinear operation. The performance of the maximum likelihood procedure was compared to that obtained by traditional timedomain analysis based on the vector magnitude. It was found that the new technique yielded a substantial improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio in the function used for endpoint determination. This improvement leads to a prolongation of the filtered QRS duration in cases with late potentials.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering ( Volume: 43, Issue: 1, January 1996)
Page(s): 60
Date of Publication: 06 August 2002

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PubMed ID: 8567006

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