• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.271-280
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• 2011

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis is a convenient tool to assess Myocardial Ischemia (MI). The analysis methods of HRV can be divided into time domain and frequency domain analysis. This paper uses wavelet transform as frequency domain analysis in contrast to time domain analysis in short term HRV analysis. ST-T and normal episodes are collected from the European ST-T database and the MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm database, respectively. An episode can be divided into several segments, each of which is formed by 32 successive RR intervals. Eighteen HRV features are extracted from each segment by the time and frequency domain analysis. To diagnose MI, the Neural Network with Weighted Fuzzy Membership functions (NEWFM) is used with the extracted 18 features. The results show that the average accuracy from time and frequency domain features is 75.29% and 80.93%, respectively.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.141-149
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• 1999

This research analyzed the HRV signals by using wavelet transform to observe the activities of autonomous nervous system in a sleep state. This research also restructured the HRV signals from electrocardiogram and by using coefficient which was obtained through wavelet transform, analyzed the signals by frequency bandwidth. Then compared the analyzed results with existing frequency analyzing method using AR model techniques. The suggested wavelet coefficient from power spectrum component in the study shows a similar tendency with the results from FFT or AR model technique. Therefore, it can be found that power spectrum analyzing method by wavelet coefficient is a useful as a tool for analyzing autonomous nervous system activities using HRV signals. Since the suggested method able to clearly depict the progression of change in time zone, which was once impossible with the existing methods, it is presumed that it will be useful in other physiological signals.

• Horticultural Science & Technology
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.1066-1071
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• 2010

To evaluate the effect of horticultural therapy (HT) on the emotional improvement of depressed patients, computer-based heart rate variability (HRV) was compared with self-report scale (SRS) known as existing subjective evaluation method. SRS included four test areas: mental stress scale (MSS), physical stress scale (PSS), Beck anxiety inventory (BAI), and Beck depression inventory (BDI). HRV was itemized into four parameters: standard deviation of the N-N intervals (SDNN), square root of mean squared difference of successive N-N intervals (RMSSD), total power (TP), and low-frequency/high-frequency ratio (LF/HF ratio). Thirty patients with depression at the same mental hospital participated in this study. 15 patients of the treatment group received HT once a week for three months, but the control group did not during the same period. As a result, the emotional improvement in treatment group was clearly identified through HRV as well as SRS. The significant difference was shown at three test areas (MSS, BAI, and BDI, $p$ < 0.001) in SRS and at one parameter (total power, $p$ < 0.05) in HRV. There was noticeable increase in SDNN, RMSSD, and LF/HF ratio in treatment group after HT activity, but no significant difference. Although all parameters of HRV did not show significance, the possibility of HRV as an objective evaluation method to HT was recognized in this study. These results also implied that HT was efficient in the mental and physical regeneration of the depressed patients in both subjective and objective evaluation methods.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.125-132
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• 2015

This paper was performed for the older people with cognitive abilities deteriorated, and its effectiveness is analyzed through measurement value of HRV. This paper was investigated the major acupressure that has been used frequently to people who has to decrease cognitive ability in the old documents. We measure the several variation by using a measuring instrument of HRV after performing an operation of acupuncture and moxibustion for elderly degraded cognitive ability. As compared with the measured values, the moxibustion and acupuncture to changes in the autonomic nervous system, heart rate and how it affects the efficacy was measured. As a result of research, acupuncture and moxibustion could be confirmed through the HRV analysis that there is a positive effect on the improvement of cognitive skills.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.499-505
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• 2021

In this study, HRV signals are analyzed to compare the autonomic nervous system activity of non-pregnant women and pregnant women. 99 disease-free pregnant women and 27 non-pregnant women from W Hospital participated in the study. The acquired HRV signals were used by the program to perform time domain analysis and frequency domain analysis. The measured values were statistically analyzed for differences between pregnancy periods through a one-way ANOVA. In the results, SDNN and RMSSD in time domain analysis had significantly higher results in early pregnancy and non-pregnant women compared to mid- and late pregnancy. In frequency domain analysis, LF and HF had significantly higher values for pregnancy and non-pregnancy compared to midand late-term, but there was no significant difference between VLF and LF/HF. his means that as pregnancy progresses, the ability to control autonomous nerves decreases in the middle and late stages of pregnancy and increases physical fatigue and mental fatigue. Therefore, the longer the pregnancy period, the more special care is needed to maintain mental and physical stability of pregnant women.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.2099-2104
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• 2010

In this paper, HRV signal which was appeared RR intervals from ECG was analyzed using return-map during anesthesia. We intended to estimate the depth of anesthesia observing the change of autonomic nervous activity(ANS) because HRV showed change of cardio-vascular system of the body according to state of ANS. Return-map analysis is to reconstruct time series of HRV to phase space after calculating delay time and embedded time. After approximating the signal distribution which was reconstructed in phase space in elliptic, we calculated the lengths of major and minor axises of the elliptic and the values was used to estimate the depth of anesthesia. Stages of the anesthesia were 7 levels to evaluate the depth of anesthesia. At induction stage of strong external stimulation, the length of major and minor axis were statistically high and at the operation stage of non-external stimulation, the values were statistically low. Conclusively, the stages of anesthesia were discriminated by HRV signal mapped in the phase space during operation.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2013

Objectives : Alzheimer's disease(AD) and mild cognitive impairment(MCI) affect several nervous structures involved with the autonomic nervous system. Association between neuropsychiatric deficits and heart rate variability has been observed. But cardiac autonomic function in AD has been scarcely studied and the results reported are conflicting. We investigated autonomic function in normal control, MCI, AD using heart rate variability(HRV) technique. Methods : Time and frequency-domain variability of 5-min R-R interval series was comparatively evaluated in 26 normal control subjects, 22 MCI subjects and 34 AD subjects. Analysis of variance(ANOVA) was used to compare the differences across groups. Correlations between MMSE-KC and HRV components were performed using Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results : No significant difference was observed among the groups in time, frequency-domain analysis of HRV(p>0.05). HRV were not found to be significantly correlated with the degree of cognitive impairment. Conclusions : There were no differences in HRV with MCI, AD subjects when compared with normal controls. Further investigation is required to use HRV technique as noninvasive parameters of MCI and AD.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.118-122
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• 1997

본 연구에서는 온열환경에 따른 쾌적감을 조사하기 위하여 온열환경을 평가할 수 있는 지표로서 생리신호를 분석하였다. 생리신호로는 인체의 자율신경계에 대한 반응을 나타내는 HRV변수 및 대뇌의 각성수준을 나타내는 CNA파형의 변이도를 이용하였다. HRV스펙트럼분석을 통해 얻어진 HF/LF변수를 이용하여 주어진 환경하에서 교감 및 부교감 신경의 활동성을 조사하였고, CNA 파형에서는 경고신호가 주어진 뒤 0.5-1초 구간의 면적값을 이용하여 온열쾌적감과의 상관성이 높게 나타나지 않은 반면, HRV스펙트럼분석에서는 휴지기에 비해 발과 얼굴부위에 대한 HF/LF값이 높은 사실을 통해 교감신경에 비해 부교감신경이 지배적이라는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 결과는 바과 얼굴이 주위온도에 따른 인체의 쾌적감을 변화시키는데에 있어서 주된 부위임을 나타내며 HRV스펙트럼분석 및 CNV파형의 관찰이 온열환경에 대한 쾌적감을 평가하는데 유용한 지표로 사용될 수 있음을 말해준다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.31-36
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• 1999

본 연구의 목적은 후각 자극에 의한 감성의 변화를 주관적 검사와 동시에 시행한 심전도에서 추출한 HRV parameter와의 상관관계를 보고자 함이다. 후각 자극은 0.6% orange와 2.5% valeric acid를 일정 flow와 일정 농도를 코 점막에 건조를 방지하기 위해 수증기로 포화시킨 향자극기로 주었다. 향의 주관적 검사에서 오렌지향은 친숙하고 쾌하다고 하였으며, valeric acid의 경우 불쾌하고 성가시고 친숙하지 않는 감성을 표시하였다. 이러한 쾌하고 불쾌한 향자극에 대한 HRV 분의 활동이 우세하였음을 확인하였다. 결론적으로 HRV 스펙트럼 분석이 감성의 변화를 객관적인 지표로 나타내는데 유용한 정보로서의 가능성을 제시히고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.2007-2009
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 인체에 열을 가했을 때 심전도(ECG) 신호에서 얻어진 Heart Rate Variability(HRV)와 광전용적맥파(PPG)에서 얻어진 Photoplethymograph Variability(PV)의 상관관계를 보기 위하여 피실험자가 상온에서 누워 있을때와 65$^{\circ}C$의 온도로 누워있을때의 심전도와 PPG를 측정하여 두 파라메터의 상관관계를 분석하여 그 효용성을 평가하였다. 이를 위하여 우선 신체 건강한 26세에서 32세까지 총 3명의 남성을 대상으로 하여 ECG와 PPG를 위와 같은 조건에서 측정한 다음, 두 신호로부터 피크를 검출하고, 피크 간격을 시계열 신호로 변환하여 HRV와 PV신호를 얻어 내었다. 또한 얻어진 HRV신호와 PV신호의 주파수 분석을 통하여 HF 및 LF성분을 비교하여 HRV와 PV의 상관관계를 비교하였다.