Abstract
A smooth pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution was employed to investigate both time and frequency characteristics in very low-frequency component (less than 0.04 Hz) of 24-hour heart rate fluctuation. In some of heart failure, we could see remarkable and very low-frequency oscillations on the Wigner-Ville distribution, which are related to Cheyne-Stokes respiration. However, the Wigner-Ville distribution of normal subjects had not such oscillations, but more random spectral characteristics instead. Furthermore, we calculated 1/fα regression slopes of average spectrum to be a crude estimate of fractal dimensions. The slopes are more negative in heart failure than normal (-1.866 ± 0.888 vs. -0.957 ± 0.180 p < 0.005), which associates a loss of dimensionality of heart rate fluctuation in heart failure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1250-1251 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | pt 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 1 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Part 1 (of 2) - Baltimore, MD, USA Duration: Nov 3 1994 → Nov 6 1994 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics