Further study of the asymmetry for multifractal spectra of heartbeat time series

A Muñoz-Diosdado; J L Del Río-Correa

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260166

Further study of the asymmetry for multifractal spectra of heartbeat time series

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006:2006:1450-3. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260166.

Authors

A Muñoz-Diosdado¹, J L Del Río-Correa

Affiliation

¹ Department of Mathematics, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Biotecnología, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, Col. Barrio la Laguna Ticomán, 07340, México, DF. amunoz@avantel.net

PMID: 17946464
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260166

Abstract

We study the asymmetry of multifractal spectra of diurnal heartbeat time series from healthy young subjects, healthy elderly subjects and patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Aging and CHF causes loss of multifractality. We report here some ways of analyzing the asymmetry of these spectra and we show how the joint analysis of the degree of multifractality and the parameters that characterizes the asymmetry can differentiate between the cardiac interbeat time series of young and elderly persons and it can also separate healthy subjects and CHF patients.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aging*
Algorithms*
Computer Simulation
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods*
Electrocardiography / methods*
Female
Fractals
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Heart Failure / physiopathology*
Heart Rate*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Cardiovascular*