Noise Effects on the Complex Patterns of Abnormal Heartbeats
Statistical Mechanics
2016-08-31 v2 Chaotic Dynamics
Biological Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Medical Physics
q-bio
Abstract
Patients at high risk for sudden death often exhibit complex heart rhythms in which abnormal heartbeats are interspersed with normal heartbeats. We analyze such a complex rhythm in a single patient over a 12-hour period and show that the rhythm can be described by a theoretical model consisting of two interacting oscillators with stochastic elements. By varying the magnitude of the noise, we show that for an intermediate level of noise, the model gives best agreement with key statistical features of the dynamics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0011367,
title = {Noise Effects on the Complex Patterns of Abnormal Heartbeats},
author = {Verena Schulte-Frohlinde and Yosef Ashkenazy and Plamen Ch. Ivanov and Leon Glass and Ary L. Goldberger and H. Eugene Stanley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0011367},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, RevTeX