A Comparison of Nonlinear Measures for the Detection of Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy from Heart Rate Variability

In this work we compare three multiscale measures for their ability to discriminate between participants having cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) and aged controls. CAN is a disease that involves nerve damage leading to an abnormal control of heart rate, so one would expect disease progression to m...

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Main Authors: David Cornforth, Herbert F. Jelinek, Mika Tarvainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/3/1425