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Modeling Heart Rate Variability with a HMM-based Neural Network
Osamu Fukuda*, Yoshihiko Nagata*, Keiko Homma* and Toshio Tsuji**
*National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba East, 1-2-1, Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8564 Japan
**Department of Artificial Systems Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8527 Japan
Received:February 27, 2002Accepted:August 20, 2002Published:December 20, 2002
Keywords:heart rate variability, mental stress, wavelet transform, recurrent neural network, hidden Markov model
Abstract
This paper proposes a method of modeling heart rate variability combining wavelet transform with a neural network based on a hidden Markov model. The proposed method has the following features: 1. The wavelet transform is used for feature extraction to extract the local change of heart rate variability in the timefrequency domain. 2. A new recurrent neural network incorporating a hidden Markov model is used to model the different patterns of heart rate variability caused by individual variations, physical conditions and so on. In experiments, five subjects were subjected to a mental workload, and the proposed method was used map subjective rating scores of their mental stress and the pattern of heart rate variability. Experiments confirmed that the proposed method achieved highly accurate modeling.
Cite this article as:O. Fukuda, Y. Nagata, K. Homma, and T. Tsuji, “Modeling Heart Rate Variability with a HMM-based Neural Network,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.14 No.6, pp. 625-632, 2002.Data files:
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