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Developing a Real Time Electrocardiogram System Using Virtual Bio-Instrumentation

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Today bio-manufacturers propose various electrocardiogram (ECG) instruments that have addressed a wide variety of clinical issues. However, the discovery of new applications in ECG devices that provide doctors with the right information at the right time and in the right way will help them to provide a highest quality care possible. In this paper, we focus on the development of an accurate and robust virtual bio-instrument. The important goals of the described project is to provide online new diagnostic informations, an accurate analysis algorithm applied to the acquired signals, data capture from commercial monitors, fast real time ECG acquisition, real time data display and recording of real ECG signals which results in the improvement of data availability. The virtual bio-instrument is validated and tested on the level of robustness, diagnostic accuracy, diagnostic impact and Human - System Interface (HSI) functioning with collaboration of the cardiologists.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the team of child, health and Development (CHU), and the anonymous reviewers for their careful readings.

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  1. Signals System and Computer Sciences Group (ESSI), National School of Applied Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco

    Khalifa Elmansouri, Rachid Latif & Boujamaa Nassiri

  2. Team of Child, Health and Development, CHU, Faculty of Medicine, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco

    Fadel Mrabih Rabou Maoulainine

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Elmansouri, K., Latif, R., Nassiri, B. et al. Developing a Real Time Electrocardiogram System Using Virtual Bio-Instrumentation. J Med Syst 38, 39 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0039-8

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