Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 375-379 , April 2007

Multifractal analysis of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia

  • Gang Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 21 34204408.
    • ,
  • Hai Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
    • ,
  • Hongbo Xie

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
    • ,
  • Zhizhong Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
    • ,
  • Xiao Hu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Laser Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China

Received 2 October 2005 ,Revised 27 April 2006 ,Accepted 9 May 2006.

References 

  1. Thakor NV, Zhu YS, Pan KY. Ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation detection by a sequential hypothesis testing algorithm. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 1990;37:837–843
  2. Chen SW. A two-stage discrimination of cardiac arrhythmias using a total least squares-based prony modeling algorithm. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2000;47:1317–1327
  3. Zhang XS, Zhu YS, Thakor NV, Wang ZZ. Detecting ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation by complexity measure. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 1999;46:548–555
  4. Zhang HX, Zhu YS. Qualitative chaos analysis for ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation based on symbolic complexity. Med Eng Phys. 2001;23:523–528
  5. Zhang HX, Zhu YS, Xu YH. Complexity information based analysis of pathological ECG rhythm for ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Int J Bifurc Chaos. 2002;12:2293–2303
  6. Small M, Yu D, Harrison RG, Robertson C, Clegg G, Holzer M, et al. Deterministic nonlinearity in ventricular fibrillation. Chaos. 2000;10:268–277
  7. Small M, Yu D, Simonotto J, Harrison RG, Grubb N, Fox KAA. Uncovering non-linear structure in human ECG recordings.. Chaos Solit Fract. 2002;13:1755–1762
  8. Owis MI, Abou-Zied AH, Youssef ABM, Kadah YM. Study of features based on nonlinear dynamical modeling in ECG arrhythmia detection and classification. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2002;49:733–736
  9. Caswell Schuckers SA. Approximate entropy as a measure of morphologic variability for ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation. Comput Cardiol. 1998;1998:265–268
  10. Torres ME, Gamero LG. Relative complexity changes in time series using information measures. Physica A. 2000;286:457
  11. Ivanov PC, Nunes Amaral LA, Goldberger AL, Havlin S, Rosenblum MG, Struzik ZR, et al. Multifractality in human heartbeat dynamics. Nature. 1999;399:461–465
  12. Wang J, Ning X, Chen Y. Multifractal analysis of electronic cardiogram taken from healthy and unhealthy adult subjects. Physica A. 2003;323:561–568
  13. Wang J, Ning X, Chen Y. Modulation of heart disease information to the 12-lead ECG multifractal distribution. Physica A. 2003;325:485–491
  14. Jensen MH, Kadanoff LP, Procaccia I. Scaling structure and thermodynamics of strange sets. Phys Rev A. 1987;36:1409–1420
  15. Chhabra A, Jensen RV. Direct determination of the f(alpha) singularity spectrum. Phys Rev Lett. 1989;62:1327–1330
  16. Chhabra AB, Meneveau C, Jensen RV, Sreenivasan KR. Direct determination of the f(alpha) singularity spectrum and its application to fully developed turbulence. Phys Rev A. 1989;40:5284–5294
  17. Cuevas E. f(alpha) multifractal spectrum at strong and weak disorder. Phys Rev B. 2003;68:024206
  18. Yamaguti M, Prado CPC. A direct calculation of the spectrum of singularities f(alpha) of multifractals. Phys Lett A. 1995;206:318–322
  19. Wang J, Ning X, Ma Q, Bian C, Xu Y, Chen Y. Multiscale multifractality analysis of a 12-lead electrocardiogram. Phys Rev E. 2005;71:062902
  20. Halsey TC, Jensen MH, Kadanoff LP, Procaccia I, Shraiman BI. Fractal measures and their singularities: the characterization of strange sets. Phys Rev A. 1986;33:1141–1151

PII: S1350-4533(06)00103-2

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.05.007

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 375-379 , April 2007

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution