Computer program for intestinal basic electrical rhythm patterns analysis.

A FORTRAN program has been elaborated for computerized intestinal Basic Electrical Rhythm (BER) analysis. It is based on recognition of individual cycles limits. The reliability of the method was assessed by comparison between computer and visual cycle limits identification. The agreement is 98.2% for BER recorded from the frequency plateau. It is 91.4% for fluctuating BER patterns. For BER frequency computing, drawbacks due to misrecognitions were avoided by cancelling sequences in which they occur.