• DocumentCode
    1623129
  • Title

    Fibrillation vs. random noise: a comparison using dimensionality calculations

  • Author

    Kaplan, Daniel T. ; Cohen, Richard J.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Health Sci. Technol., Harvard-MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    1989
  • Firstpage
    92
  • Abstract
    Application of techniques derived from the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems to calculate a fractal dimension which characterizes a signal and can be used to gauge to what extent the signal is due to noise or arises from a deterministic dynamical system is discussed. These techniques are applied to surface ECGs from ventricular fibrillation. The results suggest that fibrillation is not significantly different from spectrally colored random noise
  • Keywords
    cardiology; random noise; dimensionality calculations; fibrillation; nonlinear dynamical systems; random noise; surface ECGs; ventricular fibrillation; Displays; Electrocardiography; Equations; Fibrillation; Fractals; Limit-cycles; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Power system modeling; Signal analysis; State-space methods;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1989.95587
  • Filename
    95587