Comparative HRV Analysis of ECG Signal in the Context of Sportsperson under Post-Exercise and Relaxed Condition

摘要

Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is used to examine the health condition of the sportsperson. For the present work, a total of 22 numbers of data were taken from eleven participants in two different physical conditions who are under regular sporting activity. One set of data were taken just after playing badminton and 400–600 m run and another set of ECG data were taken in the normal i.e., relaxed condition. Acquired ECG signal is pre-processed for removal of powerline frequency, baseline wander (BW) removal, removal of low-frequency noise. The smoothening filter is also used for removal of high-frequency noise for smoothing of the wave. The filtered signals are used for HRV analysis. HRV is associated with average heart rate (HR) tachycardia and bradycardia. Main HRV parameters like mean heart rate, mean RR-interval, SDNN, RMSSD, NN50, pNN50 are analyzed in two different conditions namely post exercise and relaxed condition. In addition to HRV, the complexity analysis of the signal is also being done in the contest of sample entropy, approximate entropy etc.