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Table 1: Experimental results for ECG Segmentation.
Type of Electrodes Type of Processing Algorithm #segments %valid - mean %valid - std
Ag/AgCl
Offline
EG-Butter 7614 96.5 6.6
EG-FIR 7322 97.9 4.3
EG-Butter-3 7625 96.4 6.7
EG-FIR-3 7719 97.8 4.6
Online
Chr 6482 94.5 12.5
Chr+EG 5971 92.4 10.4
Electrolycra
Offline
EG-Butter 6692 94.0 11.4
EG-FIR 6244 93.4 11.6
EG-Butter-3 6712 93.9 11.4
EG-FIR-3 6545 94.2 10.5
Online
Chr 5550 90.8 15.7
Chr+EG 5044 84.5 18.5
65248/2009 and SFRH/PROTEC/49512/2009, and by
the Departamento de Engenharia de Electr´onica e
Telecomunicac¸˜oes e de Computadores - ISEL, whose
support the authors gratefully acknowledge.
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