title: Algorithm for the classification of multi-modulating signals on the electrocardiogram.
abstract: This article discusses the algorithm to measure electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration simultaneously and to have the diagnostic potentiality for sleep apnoea from ECG recordings. The algorithm is composed by the combination with the three particular scale transform of a(j)(t), u(j)(t), o(j)(a(j)) and the statistical Fourier transform (SFT). Time and magnitude scale transforms of a(j)(t), u(j)(t) change the source into the periodic signal and tau(j) = o(j)(a(j)) confines its harmonics into a few instantaneous components at tau(j) being a common instant on two scales between t and tau(j). As a result, the multi-modulating source is decomposed by the SFT and is reconstructed into ECG, respiration and the other signals by inverse transform. The algorithm is expected to get the partial ventilation and the heart rate variability from scale transforms among a(j)(t), a(j+1)(t) and u(j+1)(t) joining with each modulation. The algorithm has a high potentiality of the clinical checkup for the diagnosis of sleep apnoea from ECG recordings.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, Iwate Medical University, 19-1 Uchimal, Morioka, Iwate 020-8505, Japan. mmita@abeam.ocn.ne.jp
authors.forename: Mitsuo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mita
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted