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New approaches for improving cardiovascular risk assessment
Paredes, Simão; Rocha, Teresa; Mendes, Diana; Carvalho, Paulo; Henriques, Jorge; Morais, João; Ferreira, Jorge; Mendes, MiguelIntroduction and Objectives: Clinical guidelines recommend the use of cardiovascular risk assessment tools (risk scores) to predict the risk of events such as cardiovascular death, since these scores can aid clinical decision-making and thereby reduce the social and economic costs of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, despite their importance, risk scores present important weaknesses that can diminish their...
A Tool For ECG Analysis as a Module of a Tele-Monitoring System
Rocha, Teresa; Paredes, Simão; Cabiddu, Ramona; Couceiro, Ricardo; Carvalho, Paulo; Henriques, JorgeThis work describes a Matlab1 tool originally developed in the HeartCycle2 European project and updated during the cardioRisk3 project. It addresses the analysis of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal in the context of the management of heart failure (HF) patients. The toolbox is composed of six modules, focusing on the major clinical aspects relevant to HF diagnosis: signal delineation, detection of auricular a...