Quantitative measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia for apnea detection

Author

Afonso, Valtino X. ; Tompkins, W.J. ; Webster, John G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

3-6 Nov 1994

Firstpage

129

Abstract

The authors computed the discrete Wigner distribution (DWD) of the instantaneous heart rate for six male subjects. The power of the ventilation frequency decreased during the segment of the experimental protocol that included no breathing. Parameters extracted from the time-frequency distribution corresponding to respiratory sinus arrhythmia may be useful in conjunction with a typical apnea detection algorithm that is prone to false alarms due to movement artifacts in the ventilation signal

Keywords

Wigner distribution; biomedical measurement; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; pneumodynamics; ECG lead II; algorithm; apnea detection; discrete Wigner distribution; experimental protocol; false alarms; instantaneous heart rate; male subjects; movement artifacts; quantitative measures; respiratory sinus arrhythmia; time-frequency distribution; ventilation frequency power; Biomedical monitoring; Detection algorithms; Distributed computing; Frequency; Heart rate; Leg; Pollution measurement; Power engineering computing; Protocols; Smoothing methods; Time frequency analysis; Ventilation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2050-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1994.412071

Filename

412071