Detection of atrial fibrillation in long-term ECG records

The thesis deals with problems of automatic detection of atrial fibrillation in long-term ECG records. The preface of the theoretical part describes the electrophysiology of the heart and the principle of atrial fibrillation. Furthermore, it introduces methods of automatic detection of atrial fibrillation. In the practical part a method which uses the symbolic dynamics and a calculation of Shannon entropy is implemented in the MATLAB software environment. The method is tested on signals from the MIT-BIH Atrial Fibrillation Database and the Long-Term AF Database. Lastly, the accuracy of the classification is compared with methods described in different papers