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Electrocardiogram (ECG) is used in order to discover
the heart disease early. Especially, R-R interval gives
an useful information for the heart condition. The purpose
of this study is the detection of an accurate R
wave position zn order to extract the R-R interval of
the ECG. Recently, a method for detecting the position
of an R wave was proposed using moving averaged
magnitude difference(MAMD). Since there is individual
difference in the ECG waveform, however, improvement
of the approach is necessary. We proposed the
R/S wave enhancement filter(RSEF) in preprocessing
and an R wave detection algorithm which adaptively
decides search region. The algorithm searches for only
the short time duration estimated from the most recent
R-wave position in order to detect the next R-wave eficiently.
We call this duration a Window. In this paper,
the comparison between the MAMD and the RSEF is
also znvestigated.