10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Time, Frequency & Complexity Analysis for Recognizing Panic States from Physiologic Time-Series

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263292,
        author={Jonathan Rubin and Rui Abreu and Shane Ahern and Hoda Eldardiry and Daniel Bobrow},
        title={Time, Frequency \& Complexity Analysis for Recognizing Panic States from Physiologic Time-Series},
        proceedings={10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2016},
        month={6},
        keywords={physiological data analysis ecg analysis heart rate variability feature extraction data fusion classification},
        doi={10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263292}
    }
    
  • Jonathan Rubin
    Rui Abreu
    Shane Ahern
    Hoda Eldardiry
    Daniel Bobrow
    Year: 2016
    Time, Frequency & Complexity Analysis for Recognizing Panic States from Physiologic Time-Series
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.16-5-2016.2263292
Jonathan Rubin1, Rui Abreu1,*, Shane Ahern1, Hoda Eldardiry1, Daniel Bobrow1
  • 1: Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.
*Contact email: rui@parc.com

Abstract

This paper presents results of analysis performed on a physiologic time-series dataset that was collected from a wearable ECG monitoring system worn by individuals who suffer from panic disorder. Models are constructed and evaluated for distinguishing between pathologic and non-pathologic states, including panic (during panic attack), pre-panic (preceding panic attack) and non-panic (outside panic attack window). The models presented use data fusion to combine both traditional time and frequency domain heart rate variability analysis together with nonlinear/complexity analysis. The best performing model is shown to be a random forest classifier that achieves an accuracy of 97.2% and 90.7% for recognizing states of panic and pre-panic, respectively. The models presented have application in pervasive and ubiquitous mobile and wearable health management systems.