Electrocardiography (ECG) analysis and a new feature extraction method using wavelet transform with scalogram analysis (original) (raw)

Acknowledgments

This publication has been produced from the Hüseyin Yanık’s MSc thesis study. Evren Değirmenci is the thesis supervisor and the major author of the study. Belgin Büyükakıllı supported the study in medical topics and the authors Olgu Kılınç Hallıoğlu, Derya Karpuz and Serkan Gürgül shared experimentally collected data of their study.

1. Research funding: Authors state no funding involved/type of conflict.
2. Conflict of interest: Authors state no conflict of interest.
3. Ethical approval: Ethical approval of the experimental study was received from Mersin University Animal Experiments Local Ethics Committee, Mersin, Turkey.
4. Informed consent: Informed consent is not applicable.

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