Complexity and nonlinearity in cardiovascular signals / Riccardo Barbieri, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Gaetano Valenza, editors.

Foreword; Contents; Part I Introduction; 1 Introduction to Complex Cardiovascular Physiology; 1.1 Neural Control of the Cardiovascular System; 1.1.1 The Parasympathetic Nervous System; 1.1.1.1 Effect of the Parasympathetic Nervous System; 1.1.2 Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia; 1.1.3 The Sympathetic Nervous System; 1.1.4 Baroreflex; 1.2 Sympatho-Vagal Nonlinear Interactions; 1.3 Heart Rate Variability; 1.3.1 Representations of Heart Rate Variability; 1.4 Gender/Age Differences in the Autonomic Nervous System Regulation; References; Part II Methods

2 Symbolic Dynamics, Poincaré Plot Analysis and Compression Entropy Estimate Complexity in Biological Time Series2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Methods; 2.2.1 Symbolic Dynamics; 2.2.1.1 Joint Symbolic Dynamics
(JSD); 2.2.1.2 High Resolution Joint Symbolic Dynamics
(HRJSD); 2.2.1.3 Joint Conditional Symbolic Analysis
(JCSA); 2.2.1.4 Symbolic Coupling Traces
(SCT); 2.2.1.5 Specifics and Restrictions; 2.2.2 Poincaré Plot Analyses; 2.2.2.1 Segmented Poincaré Plot Analysis
(SPPA); 2.2.2.2 Bivariate Segmented Poincaré Plot Analysis
(2DSPPA)

2.2.2.3 Trivariate Segmented Poincaré Plot Analysis
(3DSPPA)2.2.2.4 Lagged Segmented Poincaré Plot Analysis
(LSPPA); 2.2.2.5 Complex Correlation Measure
(CCM); 2.2.2.6 Specifics and Restrictions; 2.2.3 Compression Entropy; 2.2.3.1 Specifics and Restrictions; 2.3 Clinical Applications; 2.3.1 Schizophrenia: Cardiorespiratory System; 2.3.2 Schizophrenia: Blood Flow; 2.3.3 Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy; 2.3.4 Depression; 2.3.5 Pregnancy; 2.4 Conclusion; References; 3 Information Decomposition: A Tool to Dissect Cardiovascular and Cardiorespiratory Complexity; 3.1 Introduction

3.2 Basic Concepts of Probability and Information Theory3.3 Information Decomposition in Networks of Interacting Physiological Dynamic Systems; 3.3.1 Dynamic Systems, Stochastic Processes and Their Probabilistic Description; 3.3.2 Information Decomposition in Multivariate Stochastic Processes; 3.4 Computation of Information Dynamics; 3.4.1 Linear Gaussian Computation; 3.4.2 Theoretical Example; 3.5 Application to Physiological Networks; 3.5.1 Experimental Protocols and Data Analysis; 3.5.2 Results and Discussion; 3.6 Conclusions; References; 4 Multiscale Entropy: Recent Advances

4.1 Introduction4.2 Overview of Multiscale Entropy; 4.3 Methods for Scale Extraction; 4.3.1 Composite Multiscale Entropy; 4.3.2 Modified Multiscale Entropy for Short Time Series; 4.3.3 Refined Multiscale Entropy; 4.3.4 Generalized Multiscale Entropy; 4.3.5 Intrinsic Mode Entropy; 4.3.6 Adaptive Multiscale Entropy; 4.4 Methods for Entropy Estimation; 4.4.1 Multiscale Permutation Entropy; 4.4.2 Multiscale Compression Entropy; 4.4.3 Fuzzy Entropy; 4.4.4 Multivariate Multiscale Entropy; 4.5 Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Cardiovascular Time Series; 4.6 Conclusion; References