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This paper presents a novel approach for QRS complex detection and extraction of electrocardiogram signals for different types of arrhythmias. Firstly, the ECG signal is filtered by a band pass filter, and then it is differentiated. After that, the Hilbert transform and the adaptive threshold technique are applied for QRS detection. Finally, the Principal Component Analysis is implemented to extract features from the ECG signal. Nineteen different records from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database have been used to test the proposed method. A 96.28% of sensitivity and a 99.71% of positive predictivity are reported in this testing for QRS complexity detection, being a positive result in comparison with recent researches. All Rights Reserved

Crop segmentation is an important task in Precision Agriculture, where the use of aerial robots with an on-board camera has contributed to the development of new solution alternatives. We address the problem of fig plant segmentation in top-view RGB (Red-Green-Blue) images of a crop grown under open-field difficult circumstances of complex lighting conditions and non-ideal crop maintenance practices defined by local farmers. We present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with an encoder-decoder architecture that classifies each pixel as crop or non-crop using only raw colour images as input. Our approach achieves a mean accuracy of 93.85% despite the complexity of the background and a highly variable visual appearance of the leaves. We make available our CNN code to the research community, as well as the aerial image data set and a hand-made ground truth segmentation with pixel precision to facilitate the comparison among different algorithms.

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This paper presents a novel approach for QRS complex detection and extraction of electrocardiogram signals for different types of arrhythmias. Firstly, the ECG signal is filtered by a band pass filter, and then it is differentiated. After that, the Hilbert transform and the adaptive threshold technique are applied for QRS detection. Finally, the Principal Component Analysis is implemented to extract features from the ECG signal. Nineteen different records from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database have been used to test the proposed method. A 96.28% of sensitivity and a 99.71% of positive predictivity are reported in this testing for QRS complexity detection, being a positive result in comparison with recent researches.