The Effect of White Noise and False Peak Detection on HRV Analysis

G. Manis, A. Alexandridi, S. Nikolopoulos, K. Davos

2005

Abstract

Heart rate variability (HRV) is an established measure for cardiac health. Its use is widespread and many methods have been developed for its analysis. Little emphasis, however, has been given to the specific influence of noise from the electrocardiogram (ECG) on the heart rate (HR) series. There are explicit factors of noise that have been extensively studied on the ECG and much work has been published on their limitation or elimination. Despite all these solutions, however, often noise does end up in the ECG and is inevitably included in the derived HR series. It is of interest to investigate how this influences subsequent HRV analysis. We propose that the noise into the resulting HR series: Shifted R-peak (white noise) and false peaks. In this paper, we demonstrate how these two scenarios affect the outcome of the HRV analysis.

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Manis G., Alexandridi A., Nikolopoulos S. and Davos K. (2005). The Effect of White Noise and False Peak Detection on HRV Analysis . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2005) ISBN 972-8865-35-X, pages 161-166. DOI: 10.5220/0001195301610166


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@conference{bpc05,
author={G. Manis and A. Alexandridi and S. Nikolopoulos and K. Davos},
title={The Effect of White Noise and False Peak Detection on HRV Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={161-166},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001195301610166},
isbn={972-8865-35-X},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2005)
TI - The Effect of White Noise and False Peak Detection on HRV Analysis
SN - 972-8865-35-X
AU - Manis G.
AU - Alexandridi A.
AU - Nikolopoulos S.
AU - Davos K.
PY - 2005
SP - 161
EP - 166
DO - 10.5220/0001195301610166