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Evaluation and development of methods for time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability

Reinhold, Isabella LU (2015) FMS820 20151
Mathematical Statistics
Abstract
Non-stationary signals are very common in nature, consider for example speech, music or heart rate. Using the concept of time-frequency analysis this thesis studies the performance of different time-frequency distributions of both simulated and real non-stationary signals. The signals studied are linear and non-linear frequency modulated (FM) signals. Two methods are studied to increase performance of the signals' time-frequency distributions. Since lag-independent kernels perform well with slow varying frequency modulated signals both methods use these. One method uses filtering with compact support lag-independent kernels and the other uses a penalty function with multitapers corresponding to lag-independent kernels. These methods are... (More)
Non-stationary signals are very common in nature, consider for example speech, music or heart rate. Using the concept of time-frequency analysis this thesis studies the performance of different time-frequency distributions of both simulated and real non-stationary signals. The signals studied are linear and non-linear frequency modulated (FM) signals. Two methods are studied to increase performance of the signals' time-frequency distributions. Since lag-independent kernels perform well with slow varying frequency modulated signals both methods use these. One method uses filtering with compact support lag-independent kernels and the other uses a penalty function with multitapers corresponding to lag-independent kernels. These methods are then evaluated using two performance measures and the results are used to improve the time-frequency distributions of heart rate variability signals. The thesis suggests that both of these methods improve the time-frequency distribution of such signals. (Less)
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author
Reinhold, Isabella LU
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organization
course
FMS820 20151
year
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H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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language
English
id
7752474
date added to LUP
2017-01-30 14:54:07
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  abstract     = {{Non-stationary signals are very common in nature, consider for example speech, music or heart rate. Using the concept of time-frequency analysis this thesis studies the performance of different time-frequency distributions of both simulated and real non-stationary signals. The signals studied are linear and non-linear frequency modulated (FM) signals. Two methods are studied to increase performance of the signals' time-frequency distributions. Since lag-independent kernels perform well with slow varying frequency modulated signals both methods use these. One method uses filtering with compact support lag-independent kernels and the other uses a penalty function with multitapers corresponding to lag-independent kernels. These methods are then evaluated using two performance measures and the results are used to improve the time-frequency distributions of heart rate variability signals. The thesis suggests that both of these methods improve the time-frequency distribution of such signals.}},
  author       = {{Reinhold, Isabella}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Evaluation and development of methods for time-frequency analysis of heart rate variability}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}