Title
Information dynamics in cardiorespiratory analyses: application to controlled breathing.
Abstract
Voluntary adjustment of the breathing pattern is widely used to deal with stress-related conditions. In this study, effects of slow and fast breathing with a low and high inspiratory to expiratory time on heart rate variability (HRV) are evaluated by means of information dynamics. Information transfer is quantified both as the traditional transfer entropy as well as the cross entropy, where the latter does not condition on the past of HRV, thereby taking the highly unidirectional relation between respiration and heart rate into account. The results show that the cross entropy is more suited to quantify cardiorespiratory information transfer as this measure increases during slow breathing, indicating the increased cardiorespiratory coupling and suggesting the shift towards vagal activation during slow breathing. Additionally we found that controlled breathing, either slow or fast, results as well in an increase in cardiorespiratory coupling, compared to spontaneous breathing, which demonstrates the beneficial effects of instructed breathing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945081
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
electrocardiography,unidirectional relation,information transfer,controlled breathing application,information dynamics,vagal activation,traditional transfer entropy,pneumodynamics,medical signal processing,stress-related conditions,cardiovascular system,heart rate variability,breathing pattern,voluntary adjustment,entropy,electrocardiogram,cardiorespiratory analyses
Transfer entropy,Vagal tone,Computer science,Anesthesia,Electronic engineering,Heart rate,Cardiorespiratory fitness,Respiration,Heart rate variability,Internal medicine,Cardiology,Breathing,Expiratory Time
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2014
1557-170X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Devy Widjaja1334.99
Luca Faes217528.91
Alessandro Montalto3162.46
Ilse Van Diest400.34
Daniele Marinazzo5112.90
Sabine Van Huffel67612.01