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HRV-GUI: A MATLAB Graphical User Interface for Heart Rate Variability Analysis and Validation Using Human, Rodent, and Clinical Diabetic Gastroparesis Data

Ali, M. K.·Chen, J. D.
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Background and Objective: Heart rate variability (HRV) analysis provides a non-invasive method for quantifying autonomic modulation from electrocardiographic recordings. However, practical HRV analysis often depends on fragmented workflows, limited signal-quality review, and software tools optimized for either human or preclinical recordings, but not both. This study developed and evaluated HRV-GUI, a MATLAB-based graphical interface for electrocardiogram (ECG)-derived HRV analysis in translational biomedical research. Methods: The HRV-GUI integrates electrocardiographic and RR interval loading, human and rat analysis modes, preprocessing, segment selection, automated R-peak detection, manual peak correction, RR interval generation, multi-domain HRV computation, diagnostic visualization, result export, and session saving/loading. The software was evaluated using deterministic synthetic RR interval datasets, baseline recordings from healthy human controls and healthy rats, and a clinical use-case comparison between healthy controls and patients with diabetic gastroparesis. Results: The HRV-GUI produced expected outputs in synthetic RR validation tests, including constant RR sequences, alternating RR sequences, outlier-containing RR sequences, and low-frequency- or high-frequency-dominant sinusoidal RR modulation. The software generated physiologically plausible HRV profiles in both human and rat recordings. In the clinical use-case analysis, patients with diabetic gastroparesis showed higher heart rate and sympathetic index, together with lower respiratory sinus arrhythmia, absolute low- and high-frequency spectral power, standard deviation of normal-to-normal intervals (SDNN), root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD), percentage of successive RR intervals differing by more than 50 ms (pNN50), Poincare short-term variability (SD1), and Poincare long-term variability (SD2) compared with healthy controls. Conclusions: HRV-GUI provides an integrated biomedical software workflow for ECG-derived HRV analysis. The validation results support its use for controlled RR testing, human and rodent ECG recordings, and clinical autonomic assessment in diabetic gastroparesis.

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Ali, M. K., Chen, J. D.. 2026-09-03. HRV-GUI: A MATLAB Graphical User Interface for Heart Rate Variability Analysis and Validation Using Human, Rodent, and Clinical Diabetic Gastroparesis Data. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.01.748623

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