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. 2020 Mar 6;20(5):1461. doi: 10.3390/s20051461

Table 2.

Conventional Morphological Features of Heartbeats.

Features Description Reference
QRS complex duration The time interval between the onsite of the Q wave
and offsite of the S wave
[30,31,38]
[73,74,75]
QRS velociy left The QRS slope velocity calculated for the time-interval
between the QRS complex onset and the first peak
[30,73]
QRS velociy right The QRS slope velocity calculated for the time-interval
between the first peak and the second peaks
[30,73]
QRS complex area The sum of the positive area and absolute negative area in the QRS complex [30,73]
QRS complex morphology Sample points from the QRS onsite to the QRS offsite [31]
QRS complex AC power The total power content of the QRS complex signal [32]
QRS complex Kurtosis The kurtosis indicates the peakedness of the QRS complex [32]
QRS complex Skewness The skewness measures the symmetry of the distribution of the QRS complex [32]
Q wave valley The valley value of Q wave [75]
S wave valley The valley value of S wave [75]
T wave peak The peak value of T wave [75]
T wave duration The duration from the QRS offsite to the T wave offsite [31]
T wave morphology Sample points from the QRS offsite to the T wave offsite [31]
P wave flag A Boolean value indicates the presence or absence of the P wave [31]
P wave duration The duration from the P wave onsite to the P wave offsite [74]
P wave morphology Sample points from the P wave onsite to the P wave offsite [34,74]
PR interval duration The duration from the P wave onsite to the QRS complex onsite [74]
PR interval morphology Sample points from the P wave onsite to the QRS complex onsite [34]
QT interval duration The duration from the QRS complex onsite to the T wave offsite [74]
QT interval morphology Sample points from the QRS complex onsite to the T wave offsite [34,75]
ST interval morphology Sample points from the S wave valley to the T wave offsite [75]
Max peak(R peak) value The maximum amplitude of the heartbeat [30,73,75]
Min peak value The minimum amplitude of the heartbeat [30,73]
Positive QRS complex area The area of the positive sample points in the QRS complex [30,73,74]
Negative QRS complex area The area of the negative sample points in the QRS complex [30,73,74]
Positive P wave area The area of the positive sample points in the P wave [74]
Negative P wave area The area of the negative sample points in the P wave [74]
Positive T wave area The area of the positive sample points in the T wave [74]
Negative T wave area The area of the negative sample points in the T wave [74]
Absolute velocity sum Sum of the absolute velocities in the pattern interval [30,73]
Ima Time-interval from the QRS complex onset to the maximal peak [30,73]
Imi Time-interval from the QRS complex onset to the minimal peak [30,73]
Pre-RR interval The RR interval between the heartbeat and its previous heartbeat [31,71,74]
Post-RR interval The RR interval between the heartbeat and its following heartbeat [31,71,74]
Post-PP interval The PP interval between the heartbeat and its following heartbeat [74]
Average-RR interval The average value of all valid RR intervals in the ECG record [31,71,74]
[32,75]
Local Average-RR interval The average value of ten valid RR intervals surrounding the heartbeat [31,71,74]
Normalized signal The heartbeat sample points are normalized and down-sampled
to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one
[76,77,78]
Raw/downsampled ECG signal The unprocessed ECG signal or the only processing on the signal is downsampled [36,79]