Title :
Characterization of autonomic nervous influences on PR and RR intervals in the electrocardiogram
Author :
Sheridan, E. ; Heneghan, C. ; O´Malley, M. ; Nolan, P. ; McNicholas, W. ; Cullen, J.P. ; Nolan, P.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
RR and PR intervals were extracted from single channel electrocardiograms in normal human subjects using a wavelet based technique. RR and PR intervals were shown to be correlated with respiration due to common autonomic nervous activation of the sino-atrial and atrio-ventricular nodes. However, evidence for independent autonomic nervous activation of these nodes is also shown based on RR and PR interval spectra, and on RR vs. PR plots.
Keywords :
electrocardiography; feature extraction; medical signal processing; neurophysiology; wavelet transforms; ECG analysis; PR intervals; RR intervals; atrio-ventricular node; autonomic nervous influences; electrodiagnostics; interval spectra; respiration; sino-atrial node; wavelet based technique; Autonomic nervous system; Delay effects; Educational institutions; Heart rate variability; Hospitals; Human anatomy; Pathology; Physiology; Sleep; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7211-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1018989
