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Non-linear time sequence analysis has been performed on infant sleep measurement data in order to obtain more information about the respiratory processes. As a first step, respiration data during REM sleep were analysed with methods from non-linear dynamics, especially, the correlation integral and the slope of its log-log plot, representing the correlation dimension. Before calculation of the correlation integral, a special kind of filtering has to be applied to the data. This filtering algorithm is a state space and singular value decomposition-based noise reduction method, and it is used to separate the noise and signal subspaces. The dynamics of a signal (in our case data from the respiratory process) and its degrees of freedom can be characterised by the correlation integral and by the correlation dimension, respectively. The main result of this study is that the highly irregular-looking breathing patterns during REM sleep could be described by a deterministic system, and finally the physiological significance of this finding is discussed.
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Pilgram, B., Schappacher, W., Löscher, W.N. et al. Application of the correlation integral to respiratory data of infants during REM sleep. Biol. Cybern. 72, 543–551 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00199897
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