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Computing, Robotics, and Imaging for the Surgical Platform

Table 2 Used HRV parameters

From: Impact of cardiac surgery on the autonomic cardiovascular function

Domain

Parameter

Description

Unit

Time domain

Linear

meanNN

Mean value of the beat-to-beat intervals

ms

  

sdNN

Standard deviation of the beat-to-beat intervals

ms

 

Non-linear

shannon

Shannon entropy of the beat-to-beat intervals

Unitless

  

FORBWORD

Number of forbidden words

Unitless

  

POLVAR10

Probability of low variability <10 ms

Unitless

Frequency domain

PLF/P

Normalized low-frequency power (LF 0.04 to 0.15 Hz)

Unitless

 

PHF/P

Normalized high-frequency power (HF 0.15 to 0.4 Hz)

Unitless

 

PLF/PHF

Ratio of LF power to HF power

Unitless

  1. Parameters used to quantify HRV. Details on the calculation can be found in [17] and [16].