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spectral analysis, system identification, principal component and cluster analyses on<br />

HRV, BPV <strong>of</strong> normal and COPD subjects.<br />

Chapter 5 presents the results and discussion <strong>of</strong> the study. First, the spectral<br />

analysis results as a method for describing periodic processes are presented. Second, the<br />

results <strong>of</strong> the time-frequency analysis for Cohen's class distributions and wavelet<br />

distributions applied to sine waves, HRV and BPV <strong>of</strong> both normal and COPD subjects<br />

are discussed. Third, the criteria are determined and the selection <strong>of</strong> the best wavelet is<br />

performed. Fourth, the activity plots <strong>of</strong> both normal and COPD subjects that<br />

represented the vagal tone and sympathovagal balance are also presented and discussed.<br />

Fifth, the cross-spectral analysis <strong>of</strong> the weighted coherence and partial coherence <strong>of</strong> the<br />

HRV <strong>of</strong> normal and COPD are presented. Sixth, the open loop and closed loop<br />

cardiovascular models for normal and COPD are discussed. Seventh, the principal<br />

components <strong>of</strong> the normal and COPD HRV study are found. Finally, the results <strong>of</strong> the<br />

normal, COPD blind separation and. COPD severity classification are shown and<br />

discussed.<br />

Chapter 6 concludes the work and suggests topics for future study. Hopefully,<br />

these topics, in addition to this research work, will motivate the prospective researcher<br />

to explore further unresolved issues in the field <strong>of</strong> heart rate variability, biological<br />

modeling and disease severity classification in the direction <strong>of</strong> signal processing<br />

application to signal analysis using time-frequency representation techniques such as<br />

wavelet distributions, adaptive signal decomposition or reconstruction and beyond.

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