HRV Standard
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Kubios HRV Standard

is a freeware heart rate variability analysis software for non-commercial research and personal use. The software supports HR data (beat-to-beat RR interval data) from most common HR monitor manufacturers (e.g. Polar, Suunto and Garmin). The software computes all commonly used time- and frequency-domain HRV parameters as well as several nonlinear analysis parameters. The software is operated entirely through an easy-to-use graphical user interface and the analysis results can be saved as a PDF report or text file. Analysis results reflect changes in cardiac autonomic regulation and can be used for example to assess stress and recovery.

Kubios HRV is developed by an experienced team of medical physicists from Kuopio, Finland. The first version of Kubios HRV was released in 2004 and the software has been used in over 800 scientific studies by now. Download Kubios HRV Standard now and start exploring your HRV.

More information: Kubios HRV Standard brochure

Data support and pre-processing

Support for Polar, Suunto and Garmin HR monitor data as well as RR interval ASCII text files. Note that beat-to-beat RR interval data is required for HRV analysis.

Pre-processing options include correction of artefacts in RR interval time series using adjustable thresholds. In addition, baseline trends can be removed from the RR data to focus the analysis on the components reflecting sympathetic and parasympathetic regulation of heart rate.

Analysis methods and functionality

The analysis methods include all standard time-domain and frequency-domain methods and several nonlinear methods.

  • Time-domain: Mean RR, SDNN, RMSSD, pNN50 etc.
  • Frequency-domain: VLF, LF and HF band powers, peak  frequencies and LF/HF ratio
  • Nonlinear: Poincaré plot, ApEn, SampEn and DFA

Analyses can be easily performed for a selected number of time periods.

Reports and interpretations

Analysis results can be saved in the form of a detailed PDF report or results can be saved into an ASCII text file.

Results are computed according to existing guidelines for HRV analysis and are thus comparable to reference values found from literature.

More information

Kubios HRV User´s Guide 
FAQ and troubleshooting  

Scientific references:
Tarvainen MP et al., Kubios HRV – heart rate variability analysis software. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 113 (1), 210-220, 2014.

Tarvainen MP et al., An advanced detrending method with application to HRV analysis. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 49 (2), 172-175, 2002.

Features HRV
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Data supported
• Inter-beat-interval (IBI) data from HR monitors (Polar, Suunto, Garmin) or text file
• Electrocardiogram (ECG) data in EDF/EDF+, GDF, Biopac ACQ3, ISHNE ECG, Cardiology XML and text file formats —
• Support for ActiHeart & ActiWave Cardio, eMotion Faros, and Zephyr BioHarness data files —
 Pre-processing
• QRS detector for accurate detection of beat-to-beat RR intervals from ECG data —
• Artefact correction methods: Threshold based RR correction algorithm / Automatic RR correction algorithm / ECG based R-wave correction / — / — //
• Trend removal from RR interval time series
 Analysis options
• Time-domain parameters: Mean RR, SDNN, RMSSD, pNN50, HRV triangular index, TINN etc.
• Frequency-domain parameters: VLF, LF and HF band powers, peak frequencies and LF/HF ratio
• Spectrum estimation: Welch's periodogram / Lomb-Scargle periodogram / AR spectrum estimate / — / //
• Basic nonlinear methods (Poincare plot, ApEn, SampEn, and DFA)
• Additional nonlinear methods (Correlation dimension, Recurrence plot, Multiscale entropy) —
• ECG derived respiration for accurate respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) analysis —
• Time-varying analysis (time trends for time-domain, frequency-domain and nonlinear parameters) —
 Reports and results export
• PDF report of analysis results including: General time-domain, frequency-domain and nonlinear results for defined analysis samples / Time-varying analysis results / — /
• ECG print (PDF report) showing the raw ECG trace for selected time period —
• HRV analysis results export options: PDF file / Text file / MATLAB MAT file // — //
• “SPSS friendly” batch file export (ideal for group analyses or repeated measures) —
 Price Free 299 € (VAT 0%)