Lag-specific transfer entropy as a tool to assess cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory information transfer

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2556-2568

  Faes, Luca ^a   Marinazzo, Daniele ^b   Montalto, Alessandro ^b   Nollo, Giandomenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; cardiovascular control; conditional entropy (CE); dynamical systems; Granger causality; multivariate time series; mutual information

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP RESEARCH; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR CONTROL; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; GRANGER CAUSALITY; MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSFER ENTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BLOOD PRESSURE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENTROPY; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907476435     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2323131     Document Type: Article

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