Oweis Rami, Hijazi Lily
Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2006 Mar;81(3):279-84. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.01.003. Epub 2006 Feb 20.
Jordan lacks companies that provide local medical facilities with products that are of help in daily performed medical procedures. Because of this, the country imports most of these expensive products. Consequently, a local interest in producing such products has emerged and resulted in serious research efforts in this area. The main goal of this paper is to provide local (the north of Jordan) clinics with a computer-aided electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnostic tool in an attempt to reduce time and work demands for busy physicians especially in areas where only one general medicine doctor is employed and a bulk of cases are to be diagnosed. The tool was designed to help in detecting heart defects such as arrhythmias and heart blocks using ECG signal analysis depending on the time-domain representation, the frequency-domain spectrum, and the relationship between them. The application studied here represents a state of the art ECG diagnostic tool that was designed, implemented, and tested in Jordan to serve wide spectrum of population who are from poor families. The results of applying the tool on randomly selected representative sample showed about 99% matching with those results obtained at specialized medical facilities. Costs, ease of interface, and accuracy indicated the usefulness of the tool and its use as an assisting diagnostic tool.
约旦缺乏能为当地医疗设施提供有助于日常医疗程序产品的公司。因此，该国大部分此类昂贵产品都依赖进口。由此，当地产生了生产此类产品的兴趣，并在该领域展开了认真的研究工作。本文的主要目标是为当地（约旦北部）诊所提供一种计算机辅助心电图（ECG）诊断工具，以减少忙碌医生的时间和工作量，特别是在那些仅聘用一名全科医生且需要诊断大量病例的地区。该工具旨在通过基于时域表示、频域频谱及其之间的关系进行ECG信号分析，帮助检测心律失常和心脏传导阻滞等心脏缺陷。此处研究的应用代表了一种先进的ECG诊断工具，它是在约旦设计、实施和测试的，旨在服务来自贫困家庭的广大人群。将该工具应用于随机选取的代表性样本的结果显示，其与专业医疗设施获得的结果匹配度约为99%。成本、界面易用性和准确性表明了该工具的实用性及其作为辅助诊断工具的价值。
