Complexity and Nonlinearity in Cardiovascular Signals

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction to Complex Cardiovascular Physiology
Michele Orini, Riccardo Barbieri, Mimma Nardelli, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Gaetano Valenza

Part II. Methods

2. Symbolic Dynamics, Poincaré Plot Analysis and Compression Entropy Estimate Complexity in Biological Time Series
Steffen Schulz, Andreas Voss

3. Information Decomposition: A Tool to Dissect Cardiovascular and Cardiorespiratory Complexity
Luca Faes, Giandomenico Nollo, Alberto Porta

4. Multiscale Entropy: Recent Advances
Meng Hu, Hualou Liang

5. Introduction to Complex Systems Analysis with Wavelets
Nicola Vanello, Luigi Landini

6. Intermittency-Driven Complexity in Signal Processing
Paolo Paradisi, Paolo Allegrini

7. Self-Similarity and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals
Paolo Castiglioni, Marco Rienzo, Andrea Faini

8. Time-Varying Cardiovascular Complexity with Focus on Entropy and Lyapunov Exponents
Gaetano Valenza, Luca Citi, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Riccardo Barbieri

9. Time-Frequency Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals and Their Dynamic Interactions
Michele Orini, Pablo Laguna, Luca T. Mainardi, Raquel Bailón

Part III. Applications

10. Measurements of Cardiovascular Signal Complexity for Advanced Clinical Applications
Roberto Sassi, Sergio Cerutti

11. Applications of Complexity Analysis in Clinical Heart Failure
Chengyu Liu, Alan Murray

12. Heart Rate Complexity Associated with Diabetic Cardiac Neuropathy
Herbert F. Jelinek, David J. Cornforth

13. Applications of Heartbeat Complexity Analysis to Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Gaetano Valenza, Luca Citi, Antonio Lanata, Claudio Gentili, Riccardo Barbieri, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

14. Cardiac Autonomic Changes in Epilepsy
Andrea Romigi, Nicola Toschi

15. Applications of Nonlinear Methods to Atrial Fibrillation
Raúl Alcaraz, José J. Rieta

16. Complex and Nonlinear Analysis of Heart Rate Variability in the Assessment of Fetal and Neonatal Wellbeing
Maria G. Signorini, Giovanni Magenes, Manuela Ferrario, Maristella Lucchini

17. ARFIMA-GARCH Modeling of HRV: Clinical Application in Acute Brain Injury
Rute Almeida, Celeste Dias, Maria Eduarda Silva, Ana Paula Rocha

18. Age and Gender Dependency of Complexity Measures of Short-Term Heart Rate Time Series
Rico Schroeder, Andreas Voss

19. Complexity and Nonlinearities in Cardiorespiratory Signals in Sleep and Sleep Apnea
Carolina Varon, Sabine Huffel

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Cardiology, Biomedical Engineering