“…The ECG is a diagnostic tool which is widely used in ICUs to monitor and assess patient's heart long-term function(s). A large number of methods aimed for detection of non-invasively measured quantities (such as ECG [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], Phonocardiogram (PCG) [20] and Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP) [12,17,21] signals) events have yet been proposed based on mathematical models [10], Hilbert Transform (HT) and first derivative [11][12][13], second order derivative [14], wavelet transform and filter banks [5,15,16], soft computing (Neuro-fuzzy, genetic algorithm) [17,18], Hidden Markov Models (HMM) application [19], etc. Based on a comprehensive literature survey among many documented works, it is seen that several features and extraction (selection) methods have been created and implemented by authors in order for detection and classification of ECG waves.…”