Time-frequency representation of the HRV: a tool to characterize sudden cardiac death in hypertrophy cardiomyopathy patients

Author

Clariá, Francesc ; Vallverdú, Montse ; Baranowski, Rafal ; Chonowska, Lidia ; Martínez, Pablo ; Caminal, Pere

Author_Institution

Dept. ESAII, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

71

Abstract

In the present work, Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is described by time-frequency representation (TFR), in order to stratify hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients with increasing risk of suffering sudden cardiac death (SCD). TFR and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) analysis are also compared. The analysis is based on three frequency bands: VLF, 0-0.04 Hz; LF, 0.04-0.15 Hz; and KF, 0.15-0.45 Hz. New variables based on the instantaneous frequency and energy functions using TFR and time-domain analysis allow to discriminate HCM patients with high risk and low risk of SCD (p<0.05). Results shown that TFR analysis of the HRV seems to present more robustness than FFT analysis in order to characterize HRV

Keywords

diseases; electrocardiography; fast Fourier transforms; medical signal processing; time-frequency analysis; 0.04 to 0.45 Hz; electrodiagnostics; fast Fourier transform analysis; frequency bands; heart rate variability; hypertrophy cardiomyopathy patients; sudden cardiac death; time-frequency representation; Cardiology; Electrocardiography; Fast Fourier transforms; Hafnium; Heart rate variability; Risk analysis; Robustness; Signal processing; Time domain analysis; Time frequency analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.900671

Filename

900671