“…Numerous approaches have been adopted for detecting and classifying cardiac rhythms (Madeiro et al, 2007;Paoletti and Marchesi, 2006;Ravier et al, 2007;Ubeyli, 2007). Some techniques have applied artificial neural networks (Osowski and Nghia, 2002;Ravier et al, 2007;Tsipouras et al, 2005), support vector machines (Acir, 2005;Ubeyli, 2007), Fou-rier and wavelet analysis (Chan et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2006;Medeiro et al, 2007;Osowski and Nghia, 2002), time-frequency analysis (Christov et al, 2006), the statistical classifier model (Dubois et al, 2007;De Chazal et al, 2004;Paoletti and Marchesi, 2006), and pattern recognition (Ros et al, 2004;Sternickel, 2002).…”