Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of variations of heart rate between two successive heart beats and it is a relatively new method for assessing the effects of stress on our body. It is measured as the time gap between our heart beats that varies as we breathe in and out. Simple measures of the small changes in each beat of our heart can provide a wealth of information on the health of our heart and nervous system; such measures are called heart rate variability or HRV. It is usually calculated by analyzing the time series of beat-to-beat intervals from ECG signal. HRV is measured based on variation of time in milliseconds between two heartbeats also known as RR interval where R is a point corresponding to the peak of the QRS complex of the ECG wave, and RR is the interval between successive Rs. The evaluation of HRV can provide an indication of cardiovascular health. To accomplish this evaluation, the raw ECG signal is firstly de-noised by the application of DWT by automatically determining the optimal order of decomposition. After the purification, the wavelet filtering is used for R-peak detection since this method is efficient and accurate in the compute of the R peaks positions without changing of the shape or position of the original signal. Finally, the RR interval is analyzed because it consists in studying the HRV. The values of RR intervals are then plotted versus time, giving a curve called RR tachogram. After all, the Lomb-Scargleperiodogram of frequency-domain method (spectral analysis) is used to investigate the sympathovagal balance of HRV from RR tachogram. By using the Lomb-Scargleperiodogram for power spectral density estimation, we have no need to make de-trending and re-sampling. As a result, all signal shows as arrhythamia by comparing with the normal value of standard measurement. And then, the traditional time-domain method (statistical analysis) and spectral analysis of frequency-domain method are applied to analyze the variation of heart rate in arrhythmia database. The MATLAB programming is used to implement the algorithm for HRV analysis and MIT/BIH arrhythmia databases is used as data inputs.
Citation: Tun HM, Naing ZM, Moe WK, et al. Analysis of heart rate variability based on quantitative approach. Citation: Tun HM, Naing ZM, Moe WK, et al. Analysis of heart rate variability based on quantitative approach. Citation: Tun HM, Naing ZM, Moe WK, et al. Analysis of heart rate variability based on quantitative approach. Citation: Tun HM, Naing ZM, Moe WK, et al. Analysis of heart rate variability based on quantitative approach. Citation: Tun HM, Naing ZM, Moe WK, et al. Analysis of heart rate variability based on quantitative approach.