Abstract
A portable data recorder was developed to parallel measure the electrocardiogram and body accelerations. A multilayer fuzzy clustering algorithm was proposed to classify the physical activity based on body accelerations. Discrete wavelet transform was incorporated to retrieve time-varying characteristics of heart rate variability under different physical activities. Nine healthy subjects were included to investigate activity-related heart rate variability during 24 h. The results showed that the heartbeat fluctuations in high frequencies were the greatest during lying and the smallest during standing. Moreover, very-low-frequency heartbeat fluctuations during low activity level (lying) were greater than during high activity level (nonlying).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 133-139 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 01 2006 |
Keywords
- Discrete wavelet transform
- Fuzzy clustering
- Heart rate variability
- Physical activity