Analysis of Heart Beat Dynamics through Singularity Spectrum

The analysis to detect arrhythmias and life-threatening conditions are highly essential in today world and this analysis can be accomplished by advanced non-linear processing methods for accurate analysis of the complex signals of heartbeat dynamics. In this perspective, recent developments in the field of multiscale information content have lead to the Microcanonical Multiscale Formalism (MMF). We show that such framework provides several signal analysis techniques that are especially adapted to the study of heartbeat dynamics. In this paper, we just show first hand results of whether the considered heartbeat dynamics signals have the multiscale properties by computing local preticability exponents (LPEs) and the Unpredictable Points Manifold (UPM), and thereby computing the singularity spectrum.

Authors:

• Harish Kumar
• Hussein Yahia
• Oriol Pont
• Michel Haissaguerre
• Nicolas Derval
• Meleze Hocini

Keywords:

• Microcanonical Multiscale Formalism (MMF)
• UnpredictablePoints Manifold (UPM)
• Heartbeat Dynamics.

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