Sleep staging from heart rate variability: Time-varying spectral features and hidden markov models

International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 246-263

  Mendez, Martin Oswaldo ^a   Matteucci, Matteo ^a   Castronovo, Vincenza ^b   Ferini Strambi, Luigi ^b   Cerutti, Sergio ^a   Bianchi, Anna Maria ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; DSS; Heart rate variability; Hidden Markov model; HMM; HRV; Sleep; Sleep staging; Time varying analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEART; SLEEP RESEARCH; TRELLIS CODES;

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; FEATURE EXTRACTOR; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGING; TIME VARYING ANALYSIS; TIME VARYING AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 77953163689     PISSN: 17526418     EISSN: 17526426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBET.2010.032695     Document Type: Article

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