An improved approximate entropy (ApEn) algorithm based on wave mode is proposed by analyzing and modifying ApEn, so that the irregular analysis can be applied to analyze the short-term series, which contain a great deal of detailed information and fluctuate slowly but in a wide range, such as...

We investigate how various coarse-graining (signal quantization) methods affect the scaling properties of long-range power-law correlated and anti-correlated signals, quantified by the detrended fluctuation analysis. Specifically, for coarse-graining in the magnitude of a signal, we consider (i)...

We investigate the asymmetry of heart rate control system and suggest a simple index to quantify this asymmetry by performing high-dimensional time irreversibility tests to heartbeat interval time series over multiple scales. The results provide strong evidence to the concept that the asymmetry...

Detecting the alterations of nonlinearity in short-term heartbeat dynamics has got the realistic meaning. The paper first studies some short nonlinear series by predicting the series with a nonlinear autoregressive model. Then inspired by the fact that the optimum modeling dimension of the model...

The Poincaré plot is one of the most important approaches in human cardiac rhythm analysis. However, further investigations are still needed to concentrate on techniques that can characterize the dispersion of the points displayed by a Poincaré plot. Based on a modified Poincaré plot, we...

Electronic Cardiogram (ECG) data taken from healthy adult subjects are found to characterize multifractality. In order to quantitatively analyze multifractal spectrum, the area of the spectrum is computed. We have a comparison between the spectrum of the young subjects and that of the old ones....

In this paper, a new viewpoint is proposed: the synchronous 12-lead ECG multifractal singularity spectrum distribution is modulated by the heart disease information. There is a well-regulated multifractal singularity spectrum distribution among different leads. We consider that the mean value of...

The complexity of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal may reflect the physiological function and healthy status of the heart. In this paper, we introduced two novel intermediate parameters of multifractality, the mass exponent spectrum curvature and area, to characterize the nonlinear complexity of...