Heart Rate Variability Analysis with the R package RHRV

• Main Authors: García Martínez, Constantino Antonio (Author), Otero Quintana, Abraham (Author), Vila, Xosé A. (Author), Lado Touriño, María José (Author), Rodríguez-Liñares, Leandro (Author), Rodríguez Presedo, Jesús María (Author), Méndez Penín, Arturo José (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Use R!,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Cardiac imaging.; Cardiology.; Biostatistics.; Biomedical engineering.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Biomedical Engineering.; Cardiac Imaging.

This book introduces readers to the basic concepts of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and its most important analysis algorithms using a hands-on approach based on the open-source RHRV software. HRV refers to the variation over time of the intervals between consecutive heartbeats. Despite its apparent...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Introduction to Heart Rate Variability
• 2 Loading, Plotting and Filtering RR Intervals
• 3 Time Domain Analysis
• 4 Frequency Domain Analysis
• 5 Nonlinear and Fractal Analysis
• 6 Comparing HRV Variability across Different Segments of a Recording
• 7 Putting it All Together, a Practical Example
• A Installing RHRV
• B How do I Get a Series of RR Intervals from a Clinical/Biological Experiment?