hrv-analysis 1.0.0

a package to calculate features from Rr Interval for HRV analyses

Heart Rate Variability analysis

hrvanalysis is a Python module for Heart Rate Variability analysis of RrIntervals built on top of SciPy, AstroPy, Nolds and NumPy and distributed under the GPLv3 license.

The development of this library started in July 2018 as part of Aura Healthcare project and is maintained by Robin Champseix.

Website : https://www.aura.healthcare

Github : https://github.com/Aura-healthcare

version : 1.0.0

Getting started

Features calculation

There are 4 types of features you can get from NN Intervals:

Time domain features : Mean_NNI, SDNN, SDSD, NN50, pNN50, NN20, pNN20, RMSSD, Median_NN, Range_NN, CVSD, CV_NNI, Mean_HR, Max_HR, Min_HR, STD_HR

Geometrical domain features : Triangular_index, TINN

Frequency domain features : LF, HF, VLF, LH/HF ratio, LFnu, HFnu, Total_Power

Non Linear domain features : CSI, CVI, Modified_CSI, SD1, SD2, SD1/SD2 ratio, SampEn

As an exemple, what you can compute to get Time domain analysis is :

from hrvanalysis.extract_features import get_time_domain_features

# nn_intervals is a list containing integers value of NN Intervals
time_domain_features = get_time_domain_features(nn_intervals)

>>> time_domain_features
{'mean_nni': 718.248,
 'sdnn': 43.113,
 'sdsd': 19.519,
 'nni_50': 24,
 'pnni_50': 2.4,
 'nni_20': 225,
 'pnni_20': 22.5,
 'rmssd': 19.519,
 'median_nni': 722.5,
 'range_nni': 249,
 'cvsd': 0.0272,
 'cvnni': 0.060,
 'mean_hr': 83.847,
 'max_hr': 101.694,
 'min_hr': 71.513,
 'std_hr': 5.196}

You can find how to use methods, references and details about each feature in the documentation of each function:

• get_time_domain_features
• get_geometrical_features
• get_frequency_domain_features
• get_csi_cvi_features
• get_poincare_plot_features
• get_sampen

Outliers and ectopic beats cleaning methods

These package provides methods to remove outliers and ectopic beats from signal for further analysis. Those methods are useful to get Normal to Normal Interval (NN interval) from Rr Interval. Please use this methods carefully as they might have a huge impact on features calculation.

from hrvanalysis.clean_outliers import clean_outlier, clean_ectopic_beats

# rr_intervals is a list containing integers value of Rr Intervals
cleaned_rr_intervals = clean_outlier(rr_intervals=rr_intervals,  low_rri=300, high_rri=2000) # This remove outliers from signal

nn_interval = clean_ectopic_beats(rr_intervals=cleaned_rr_intervals, method="Malik") # This remove ectopic beats from signal

You can find how to use methods, references and details in the documentation of each function:

• clean_outlier
• clean_ectopic_beats

Plot functions

There are several plot functions that allow you to see, for example, the Power spectral density for frequency domain features :

from hrvanalysis.plot import plot_psd, plot_distrib

# nn_intervals is a list containing integers value of NN Intervals
plot_psd(nn_intervals, method="Welch")
plot_distrib(nn_intervals)

You can find how to use methods and details in the documentation of each function:

• plot_distrib
• plot_timeseries
• plot_psd
• plot_poincare

Installation / Prerequisites

Dependencies

hrvanalysis requires the following:

• Python (>= 3.6)
• astropy = 3.0.4
• future = 0.16.0
• nolds = 0.4.1
• numpy = 1.15.1
• scipy = 1.1.0

User installation

The easiest way to install hrvanalysis is using pip :

$ pip install -U hrv-analysis

you can also clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/robinchampseix/hrvanalysis.git
$ python setup.py install

References

Here are the main references used to compute the set of features and for signal processing methods:

Heart rate variability - Standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use, Task Force of The European Society of Cardiology and The North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology, 1996

Signal Processing Methods for Heart Rate Variability - Gari D. Clifford, 2002

Physiological time-series analysis using approximate entropy and sample entropy, Joshua S. Richman, J. Randall Moorman - 2000

Using Lorenz plot and Cardiac Sympathetic Index of heart rate variability for detecting seizures for patients with epilepsy, Jesper Jeppesen et al, 2014

Authors

Robin Champseix - Initial work - (https://github.com/robinchampseix)

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

I hereby thank Laurent Ribière and Clément Le Couedic, my coworkers who gave me time to Open Source this library. I also thank Fabien Arcellier for his advices on to how build a library in PyPi.