“…Several methods are based on heart sounds associated with coronary occlusions (Akay & Welkowitz, 1993). Also, methods which employ the resting or exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) of the patient, extracting features from it, like the R wave (Szildgyi, Szildgyi, & David, 1997), the QT interval (Ng, Wong, Mora, Passariello, & Almeida, 1998), the T wave amplitude (Sabry-Rizk et al, 1999), the heart rate variability (Tkacz & Kostka, 2000), and the ST segment (Lewenstein, 2001) have been proposed. Furthermore, there are methods using medical images, such as SPECT (Haddad, Adlassnig, & Porenta, 1997), and methods based on arterio-scillography (Pouladian, Golpayegani, Tehrani-Fard, & Bubvay-Nejad, 2005).…”