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identified using principal component analysis. Cluster analysis is used to separate the<br />

normal subjects from the COPD subjects in a mixed population. Once the separation is<br />

completed, cluster analysis is again used to assign the COPD subjects according to their<br />

severity group. The severe COPD subjects are identified and recommended for lung<br />

reduction surgery if necessary.<br />

1.2 Goals and Contributions<br />

The goals <strong>of</strong> this research are:<br />

1. To apply time-frequency analysis to heart rate variability in order to investigate the<br />

difference in HRV during rest and exercise between normal subjects and COPD<br />

subjects.<br />

2. To use time-frequency analysis to understand and to develop tools that can describe<br />

rapid changes in the time varying spectrum due to exercise. Expansion <strong>of</strong> the concept <strong>of</strong><br />

spectral analysis <strong>of</strong> heart rate variability to time-frequency analysis gives one the ability<br />

to quantitatively assess the parasympathetic and sympatho-vagal balance changes as a<br />

function <strong>of</strong> time for normal and COPD subjects.<br />

3. To use four different kernels <strong>of</strong> the general class <strong>of</strong> time-frequency distributions<br />

(linear: the short time Fourier transform, and bilinear: the smoothed pseudo Wigner-<br />

Ville, the Choi-William, the Born-Jordan-Cohen) and wavelet distribution (linear) to<br />

investigate the transitions between rest, exercise and recovery.<br />

4. To evaluate and assess which distribution among the bilinear time-frequency<br />

distributions and wavelet distribution give the most physiologically significant<br />

information from the data <strong>of</strong> COPD subjects.

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