.TH HRSTATS 1 "6 April 2012" "WFDB 10.5.11" "WFDB Applications Guide"
.SH NAME
hrstats \- collect and summarize heart rate statistics from an annotation file
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBhrstats -r\fR \fIrecord\fR \fB-a\fR \fIannotator\fR [ \fIoptions\fR ... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBhrstats\fR reads the annotation file specified by \fIrecord\fR and
\fIannotator\fR  and produces a uniformly sampled and
smoothed instantaneous heart rate signal, using the IPFM model as originally
implemented in tach.c.  In this context, heart rate (HR) is defined as ten
times the number of beat-to-beat (RR) intervals (and fractional intervals)
within a 6-second HR measurement window, including intervals beginning and/or
ending with ectopic beats, and RR intervals are defined by the locations of
consecutive beat annotations in the annotation file.
.PP
The first HR window starts at the beginning of the first RR interval in the
record and ends 6 seconds later. Subsequent HR windows begin at 1-second
intervals following the first, i.e, they overlap by 5/6 (83.33%).  HR windows
that contain part or all of a very long (>3 sec) or very short (<0.2 sec)
interval are discarded.  All others are used to generate HR measurements that
are accumulated in a histogram with 1 bpm bins.
.PP
When all intervals have been processed, summary statistics calculated from the
histogram are written to the standard output and to a WFDB '.info' file,
in this format:
.IP
 <HR>: 71|73/75/81|86 +-1.8 bpm [atr]
.PP
This example is the output of 'hrstats -r mitdb/100 -a atr'.  From left to
right, it shows:
.IP
 the characteristic that is summarized [HR]
.br
 extreme low value [in the example, 71]
.br
 5th percentile [73]
.br
 mean (trimmed, excluding outliers below 5th or above 95th percentiles) [75]
.br
 95th percentile [81]
.br
 extreme high value [86]
.br
 sample deviation (of values included in the trimmed mean) [1.8]
.br
 units of all statistics [bpm]
.br
 source of data [atr annotations]
.PP
Optionally, the HR histogram can also be written to a file containing two
columns separated by a tab.  The second column contains the number of
measurements of heart rate falling within 0.5 bpm of the heart rate in the
first column.  The histogram includes only heart rates between the extreme
low and extreme high heart rates inclusive.
.PP
\fIOptions\fR include:
.TP
\fB-h\fR
Print a usage summary.
.TP
\fB-o\fR \fIfile\fR
Write the HR histogram to the specified \fIfile\fR.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
It may be necessary to set and export the shell variable \fBWFDB\fR (see
\fBsetwfdb\fR(1)).
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBihr\fR(1), \fBtach\fR(1)
.SH AUTHOR
George B. Moody (george@mit.edu)
.SH SOURCE
http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb/app/hrstats.c