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ARTiiFACT: a tool for heart rate artifact processing and heart rate variability analysis.
Tobias Kaufmann1, Stefan Sütterlin, Stefan M Schulz
1Department of Psychology I, University of Würzburg, Marcusstr. 9-11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany. tobias.kaufmann@uni-wuerzburg.de
Behavior Research Methods
|May 17, 2011
Summary
Accurate heart rate variability (HRV) analysis requires robust artifact detection in interbeat interval (IBI) data. ARTiiFACT software provides automated and manual tools for reliable HRV analysis and data export.
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