Detrended fluctuation analysis of heart intrabeat dynamics

Eduardo Rodriguez, Juan C. Echeverria and Jose Alvarez-Ramirez

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 384, issue 2, 429-438

Abstract: We investigate scaling properties of electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings of healthy subjects and heart failure patients based on detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). While the vast majority of scaling analysis has focused on the characterization of the long-range correlations of interbeat (i.e., beat-to-beat) dynamics, in this work we consider instead the characterization of intrabeat dynamics. That is, here we use DFA to study correlations for time scales smaller than one heart beat period (about 0.75s). Our results show that intrabeat dynamics of healthy subject are less correlated than for heart failure dynamics. As in the case of interbeat dynamics, the DFA scaling exponents can be used to discriminate healthy and pathological data. It is shown that 0.5h recordings suffices to characterize the ECG correlation properties.

Keywords: DFA; Intrabeat dynamics; Correlations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.05.022

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