HEART RATE VARIABILITY - 2006
TECHNIQUES, APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

WELCOME & OVERVIEW OF FIELD

Why is Physiologic Variability Important?
Ary L. Goldberger, M.D.

SIGNALS AND STANDARD MEASURES

Physiologic Mechanisms of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Parts 1 & 2
Harald M. Stauss, M.D., Ph.D.

Time domain Measures: From Variance to pNNx
Joseph E. Mietus, B.S.

Frequency Domain Measures: Fourier Transform, Lomb Periodogram and Other Methods [Speaker's notes]
George B. Moody

Time and Frequency Domain Measures: Ectopic Beat and Activity Effects, Heart Rate Turbulence [Supplementary Material]
Gari D. Clifford, Ph.D.

Time domain Measures: Poincare Plots
Albert C. C. Yang, M.D.

COMPLEXITY / NONLINEAR MEASURES

Complexity Measures 1: What is Nonlinear Dynamics?
Daniel Kaplan, Ph.D.

Complexity Measures 2: Fractal Methods
Chung-Kang Peng, Ph.D.

Complexity Measures 3: Entropy and Time Irreversibility Measurements
Madalena Costa, Ph.D.

Complexity Measures 4: Linguistic and Symbolic Dynamical Approaches
Chung-Kang Peng, Ph.D.

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 1: AUTONOMIC ASSESSMENT

HRV in Autonomic Assessment: Diabetes Mellitus and other Conditions
Roy Freeman, M.D.

HRV and Baroreflex Assessment
J. Andrew Taylor Ph.D.

A Guide to Open-Access Databases and Open- Source Software on PhysioNet
George B. Moody

Exercise and Heart Rate Recovery
Daniel E. Forman, M.D.

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 2: CARDIAC RISK ASSESSMENT,
ARRHYTHMIAS AND SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH

HRV and Risk Stratification 1: Post MI and Congestive Heart Failure
Phyllis K. Stein, Ph.D.

HRV and Risk Stratification 2: Sudden Cardiac Death
Phyllis K. Stein, Ph.D.

T-wave Alternans and Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death
Richard L. Verrier, Ph.D.

CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 3: CHRONOBIOLOGY AND SLEEP

Chronobiologic Aspects of HRV
Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Ph.D.

New Concepts in Sleep Staging and Sleep Physiology
Robert J. Thomas, M.D.

HRV in Sleep Stability and Sleep Apnea Detection
Joseph E. Mietus, B.S.

Special Lecture
Heart Rate Dynamics and Complex Arrhythmogenesis
Leon Glass, Ph.D.

OTHER CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Heart Rate Characteristics Monitoring in Neonatal Sepsis
J. Randall Moorman, M.D.

Drugs and HRV
Ary L. Goldberger, M.D.

Special Lecture
Beyond the Fourier Transform: Coping with Nonlinear, Nonstationary Time Series
Norden E. Huang Ph.D.