Nonlinear analysis of cardiological signals
towards clinical applications
- AUTHOR: P.-A. Absil
- ABSTRACT:
This work is dedicated to the study of cardiac rhythm. It results from a
collaboration with the Cardiology and Neurology Departments at Liège
University Hospital. The applications considered are essentially twofold: on
the one hand, prognosis regarding the health of patients suffering from
congestive heart failure, through studying long range correlations and
scale invariance in their cardiac rhythm; one the other hand, diagnosis of
sleep apnea by means of a dedicated processing of the patient's cardiac
rhythm. Both studies are based on the so-called RR signal, i.e. the
sequence of time intervals between successive ventricular contractions.
- STATUS:
Journal A (41) 4, pp. 14-16, December 2000.
This is an extended abstract of the Diploma Thesis ``Analyse non lineaire
de signaux cardiologiques en vue d'applications cliniques'' by P.-A. Absil,
Université de Liège, 1998 (advisor: R. Sepulchre).
- DATE OF ENTRY: January 2001.
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