Scaling Exponent Determined by a Bio-Signal Computation for the Healthy and Diseased Heartbeat

We analyzed heartbeat-intervals by using our own program of detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). "Alternans" is an arrhythmia exhibiting alternating amplitude or alternating interval from heartbeat to heartbeat, which was first described in 1872 by Traube. Recently, alternans was finally...

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Main Authors: Toru Yazawa, Katsunori Tanaka, Atsushi Kato, Tomoo Katsuyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2009-04-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Subjects:
DFA
Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/ZT509AS.pdf