ECG Monitoring System For Heart Rate Variability Analysis

Marcel Stanciu, Daniela Faur, Anatolie Boev

Abstract

A method to analyse HRV (heart rate variability) using an ECG monitoring system is presented. Variations in heart rate may be evaluated by a number of methods. The current methodologies used to analyse HRV are based largely on linear techniques to analyse ‘past’ and ‘present’ electrocardiogram (ECG) data in time and frequency domains. For conventional time domain analysis, the variability in the R-R interval time series derived from an ECG recording is statistically summarised using conveniently calculated measures such as SDNN (standard deviation of time interval between consecutive R peaks) and RMSSD (root-mean square of the difference between two adjacent R-R intervals). Depending on the length of the analysed ECG recording, which may vary from a few minutes to 24 hours, and the choice of the time domain measure, both short-term and long-term HRV can be quantified and characterised.

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TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities

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