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Objective- Heart rate monitoring using wrist type Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signals is getting popularity because of construction simplicity and low cost of wearable devices. The task becomes very difficult due to the presence of various…
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Linear and non-linear measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are widely investigated as non-invasive indicators of health. Stress has a profound impact on heart rate, and different meditation techniques have been found to modulate…
Arrhythmia, an abnormal cardiac rhythm, is one of the most common types of cardiac disease. Automatic detection and classification of arrhythmia can be significant in reducing deaths due to cardiac diseases. This work proposes a multi-class…
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This article consists of a brief discussion of the energy density over time or frequency that is obtained with the wavelet transform. Also an efficient algorithm is suggested to calculate the continuous transform with the Morlet wavelet.…
Heart rate variability (HRV) indices describe properties of interbeat intervals in electrocardiogram (ECG). Usually HRV is measured exclusively in normal sinus rhythm (NSR) excluding any form of paroxysmal rhythm. Atrial fibrillation (AF)…
Continuous monitoring of heart rate variability (HRV) provides insights in cardiovascular health. Wearable Photoplethysmography (PPG) assures convenient measurement of HRV. PPG, however, is susceptible to motion artifacts, considerably…
This study presents a nonlinear signal processing method for accurate radar-based heartbeat interval estimation by exploiting the periodicity of higher-order harmonics inherent in heartbeat signals. Unlike conventional approaches that…
Millimeter-wave Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar enables contactless cardiac monitoring, but heartbeat estimation becomes challenging when respiration and random body motion (RBM) distort the radar signal. In this paper, we…
Heart rate recovery (HRR) within the initial minute following exercise is a widely utilized metric for assessing cardiac autonomic function in individuals and predicting mortality risk in patients with cardiovascular disease. However,…
We applied multiresolution wavelet analysis to the sequence of times between human heartbeats (R-R intervals) and have found a scale window, between 16 and 32 heartbeats, over which the widths of the R-R wavelet coefficients fall into…
Power measurement algorithms based on Fourier transform are susceptible to errors caused by interharmonics, while wavelet transform algorithms are particularly sensitive to even harmonics due to band decomposition effects. The empirical…
This study proposes a radar-based heartbeat measurement method that uses the absolute value of the second derivative of the complex radar signal, rather than its phase, and the variational mode extraction method, which is a type of mode…
Heart rate variability (HRV) has been studied for over 50 years, yet an integrative concept is missing on what HRV's mathematical properties represent physiologically. Here I introduce the notion of HRV code as an attempt to address this…
Wind speed modelling and prediction has been gaining importance because of its significant roles in various stages of wind energy management. In this paper, we propose a hybrid model, based on wavelet transform to improve the accuracy of…
The wavelet transform has been used for numerous studies in astrophysics, including signal--noise periodicity and decomposition as well as the signature of differential rotation in stellar light curves. In the present work, we apply the…
A new parameter estimation algorithm, known as Sub-band Dual Frequency Conjugate LVT (SDFC-LVT), is proposed for the ground moving targets. This algorithm first constructs two sub-band signals with different central frequencies. After that,…