Multiscale Entropy Analysis
Multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis (Aug. 4, 2004, midnight)
New in PhysioToolkit is software for multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis. This approach is useful for study of time series that have correlations at multiple scales. A new tutorial illustrating the application of the MSE method to analysis of interbeat (RR) interval time series accompanies the software.
Pollard, T., Moody, B. E., Lehman, L., Gow, B., Fernandes, C., Xie, C., Johnson, A., Mark, R. G., & Heldt, T. (2026). PhysioNet as a global platform for biomedical research. Nature Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00096-z. Available from: https://rdcu.be/faatM
Software Description
The method of multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis is useful for investigating complexity in physiologic signals and other series that have correlations at multiple (time) scales.
A tutorial about multiscale entropy analysis is available here (a PDF version is also available). The tutorial introduces the concept of MSE, describes an algorithm for calculating MSE using sample entropy (SampEn), presents a portable implementation of this algorithm, and illustrates its use with interbeat (RR) interval time series.
Files
Total uncompressed size: 6.5 MB.
Access the files
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Download the files using your terminal:
wget -r -N -c -np https://physionet.org/files/mse/1.0/
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Download the files using AWS command line tools:
aws s3 sync --no-sign-request s3://physionet-open/mse/1.0/ DESTINATION
| Name | Size | Modified |
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| figures | ||
| papers | ||
| tutorial | ||
| .latex2html-init (download) | 8.7 KB | 2019-04-12 |
| Makefile (download) | 987 B | 2019-04-12 |
| fixhtml (download) | 102 B | 2019-04-12 |
| mse-1.0.c (download) | 11.8 KB | 2019-04-12 |
| mse-1.htm (download) | 4.3 KB | 2019-04-12 |
| mse.1 (download) | 3.1 KB | 2019-04-12 |
| mse.c (download) | 11.8 KB | 2019-04-12 |
| test-mse (download) | 306 B | 2019-04-12 |
| tutorial.tex (download) | 22.1 KB | 2019-04-12 |