@ARTICLE{Adamczyk_Krzysztof_Comparison_2021,
 author={Adamczyk, Krzysztof and Polak, Adam G.},
 volume={vol. 28},
 number={No 4},
 journal={Metrology and Measurement Systems},
 pages={643-660},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation},
 abstract={Heart rate is constantly changing under the influence of many control signals, as manifested by heart rate variability (HRV). HRV is a nonstationary, irregularly sampled signal, the spectrum of which reveals distinct bands of high, low, very low and ultra-low frequencies (HF, LF, VLF, ULF). VLF and ULF components are the least understood, and their analysis requires HRV records lasting many hours. Moreover, there are still no well-established methods for the reliable extraction of these components. The aim of this work was to select, implement and compare methods which can solve this problem. The performance of multiband filtering (MBF), empirical mode decomposition and the short-time Fourier transform was tested, using synthetic HRV as the ground truth for methods evaluation as well as real data of three patients selected from 25 polysomnographic records with a clear HF component in their spectrograms. The study provided new insights into the components of long-term HRV, including the character of its amplitude and frequency modulation obtained with the Hilbert transform. In addition, the reliability of the extracted HF, LF, VLF and ULF waveforms was demonstrated, and MBF turned out to be the most accurate method, though the signal is strongly nonstationary. The possibility of isolating such waveforms is of great importance both in physiology and pathophysiology, as well as in the automation of medical diagnostics based on HRV.},
 type={Article},
 title={Comparison of multiband filtering, empirical mode decomposition and short-time fourier transform used to extract physiological components from long-term heart rate variability},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/121798/PDF-MASTER/art03_final.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/mms.2021.137700},
 keywords={heart rate variability, nonstationary signal analysis, multiband filtering, empirical mode decomposition, short-time Fourier transform, Hilbert transform},
}