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1/F components in short term heart rate variability signals Yuan, Yeh

Abstract

When analyzing short term heart rate variability (HRV) signals using the FFT technique, the linear trend appears to be perfect 1/f signals. The non-linear trend in short term HRV signals produces the regression 1/f components. De-trending the data using a moving average is an effective technique for removing the 1/f components. However, though removing the trend may sometimes produce clearer spectral pictures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia or the breathing frequency, it has little impact otherwise. The linear trend is fractal, but not chaotic. The 1/f components in the signal does not imply the signal fractal; nor does a fractal signal implies it chaotic. No evidence in the present research suggests that the non-linear trend is fractal, nor is there evidence to suggest that the HRV signal is fractal, or chaotic.

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