Date of Award

Spring 1967

Document Type

Thesis - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Horgan, James D.

Second Advisor

Lange, Ramon L.

Abstract

Since the development of high speed digital computers a number of researchers have become interested in developing computer programs for the automatic diagnosis of electrocardiograms. Such an application promises to relieve hospital cardiology staffs of much of the routine work associated with diagnosis and, perhaps to provide some new insight into the field of electrocardiography. The objectives of this study were to develop a digital computer program based upon the pattern recognition techniques of Stark and his associates for the diagnosis of some common abnormalities, and to investigate the feasibility of this scheme as a basis in the development of a practical automatic diagnosis computer program. This study was limited to the diagnosis of right bundle branch block, left bundle branch block, right ventricular hypertrophy, left ventricular hypertrophy, and normal cardiac condition on the basis of the QRS complex of the Frank orthogonal lead system. It is hoped that the technique which was developed i this research can be extended to the diagnosis of other cardiac abnormalities such as infarction and arrhythmias.

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