Title :
Long-term characterization of arterial blood pressure series
Author :
Perfetto, Juan Carlos ; Ruiz, Aurora ; D´Attellis, Carlos
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Ing. Biomedica, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abstract :
A simply method to study how arterial blood pressure values rise and fall during the till test, which is the tool universally used to evaluate people with faint episodes. Not only what is happening but how, that is calculating the angle and longitude of the arterial blood pressures ramps. This is accomplished from smoothed versions of the series of systolic pressure, which is approximated by line segments fitted to it. Then, the extracted features are used to make comparisons between the three groups; one group was formed with the controls. The other two groups include people with a history of syncope, which are classified as positive or negative depending on the results of tilt testing.
Keywords :
blood vessels; electrocardiography; haemodynamics; medical signal processing; arterial blood pressure series; faint episodes; line segments; systolic pressure; tilt testing; Arterial blood pressure; Blood pressure; Cardiology; Electrocardiography; Filtering; Filtering algorithms; Heart rate variability;
Conference_Titel :
Computing in Cardiology, 2010
Conference_Location :
Belfast
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7318-2