Testing of Autonomic Nervous System by Deep Breathing Using a Smartphone


KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 227-234, Jul. 2023
https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2023.12.7.227,   PDF Download:
Keywords: Deep Breathing, Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, Autonomic Nervous System, Correlation Analysis
Abstract

Measuring heart rate variability by deep breathing and using this to evaluate the autonomic nervous system is a well-known method widely used in various clinical fields. In hospitals, expensive equipment is installed and managed by experts for this purpose. This paper discusses an app we developed that can easily test the autonomic nervous system by deep breathing anytime, anywhere using a smartphone, and then reviews experiments performed to verify the results. The experiments were conducted in the clinical room of the Department of Neurology at Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital on eight volunteers. We tested the autonomic nervous systems of the volunteers first with an electromyography device installed in the hospital and then with the app under identical conditions. We performed a correlation analysis on the results of these two methods using the Pearson method, and this yielded a very high correlation of 0.98.


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[IEEE Style]
S. Ha, C. W. Choo, J. M. Seok, J. Park, S. Park, "Testing of Autonomic Nervous System by Deep Breathing Using a Smartphone," KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 227-234, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2023.12.7.227.

[ACM Style]
Sangho Ha, Chang Woo Choo, Jin Myoung Seok, Jongkyu Park, and Sang-Heum Park. 2023. Testing of Autonomic Nervous System by Deep Breathing Using a Smartphone. KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, 12, 7, (2023), 227-234. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTCCS.2023.12.7.227.