Can chaos be used for heart rate monitoring?

Author

Vibe-Rheymer, K. ; Vesin, Jean Marc ; Pruvot, Etienne

Author_Institution

Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

Volume

4

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

1610

Abstract

Critical care monitoring of the heart rate restrains possible actions to curative ones, since present techniques can not predict cardiac events. Innovative methods, such as chaos analysis, could help overcome these limitations and might allow to develop new preventive strategies. This paper presents a new chaos detection scheme that can be used on short data sets, providing almost real-time monitoring. The method is validated on heart rate signals from patients suffering from vasovagal syncope and ventricular tachyarrhythmias

Keywords

chaos; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; patient care; patient monitoring; almost real-time monitoring; cardiac events prediction; chaos analysis; chaos detection scheme; critical care monitoring; curative actions; heart rate monitoring; heart rate signals; preventive strategies; vasovagal syncope; ventricular tachyarrhythmias; Cardiology; Chaos; Fractals; Heart rate; Heart rate measurement; Hospitals; Linearity; Signal processing algorithms; Switches; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3811-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.647575

Filename

647575