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Time-Frequency Analysis of Heart Rate Variability for Neonatal Seizure Detection

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There are a number of automatic techniques available for detecting epileptic seizures using solely electroencephalogram (EEG), which has been the primary diagnosis tool in newborns. The electrocardiogram (ECG) has been much neglected in automatic seizure detection. Changes in heart rate and ECG rhythm were previously linked to seizure in case of adult humans and animals. However, little is known about heart rate variability (HRV) changes in human neonate during seizure. In this paper, we assess the suitability of HRV as a tool for seizure detection in newborns. The features of HRV in the low-frequency band (LF: 0.03–0.07 Hz), mid-frequency band (MF: 0.07–0.15 Hz), and high-frequency band (HF: 0.15–0.6 Hz) have been obtained by means of the time-frequency distribution (TFD). Results of ongoing time-frequency (TF) research are presented. Based on our preliminary results, the first conditional moment of HRV which is the mean/central frequency in the LF band and the variance in the HF band can be used as a good feature to discriminate the newborn seizure from the nonseizure.

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  1. Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, 4029, Australia

    M. B. Malarvili, Mostefa Mesbah & Boualem Boashash

  2. Signal Processing Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Boualem Boashash

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Malarvili, M.B., Mesbah, M. & Boashash, B. Time-Frequency Analysis of Heart Rate Variability for Neonatal Seizure Detection. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2007, 050396 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/50396

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