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hrv_freq: reject welch segments with a mid-window gap - #72

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_welchBandPower only checked beat count per segment (>=16), never time span. a ~40-50s gap in the middle of a ~67s HF window (off-wrist, BLE reconnect mid-drain) can still leave >=16 beats clustered at both ends, so the segment passes and lomb-scargle runs on it like it's continuous. LF/HF/VLF/ULF (and lf_hf/nu_lf/nu_hf/total downstream) get published at Tier.high off a periodogram that's really just a window function.

resp_rate.dart's rsaRespRate does the identical welch-on-beat-times segmentation and already guards this: k < 30 || tSec[hi-1]-tSec[lo] < segSec*0.8. hrv_freq never got that fix. ported it over, same threshold, same reasoning comment.

verified the regression by reverting the fix locally and rerunning the new test — old code returns hf=781.5 on a gap-corrupted segment, fixed code correctly returns null. full suite green otherwise (653 passed, 6 pre-existing fixture-skips unrelated to this change).

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Reject gap-corrupted Welch segments before calculating HRV frequency-band power.

Bug Fixes:

  • Reject Welch HRV frequency segments containing insufficient time coverage or large internal beat gaps, preventing gap-corrupted periodograms from producing high-tier frequency metrics.

Tests:

  • Add regression coverage for endpoint and internal recording gaps, along with a control case confirming complete segments remain valid.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved frequency-domain HRV analysis by excluding segments with insufficient beat coverage or extended recording gaps.
    • Prevented incomplete segments from skewing Welch-based averages and producing misleading high-frequency (HF) results.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for recordings containing mid-segment gaps, including comparison with uninterrupted data.

_welchBandPower only checked beat count per segment, not time span.
a dropout in the middle of a ~67s HF window still clears 16 points if
beats cluster at both ends, so lomb-scargle ran on it like a full
segment and published bogus LF/HF/lf_hf/nu numbers at high confidence.

resp_rate.dart's identical welch loop already guards this (span <
segSec*0.8), ported the same check here.

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HRV segment validation

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Welch segment gap filtering and regression coverage
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_freq.dart, test/onehz/clinical_test.dart
_welchBandPower now skips segments whose beat-time span is below 80% of the segment length. The test verifies that a 45-second gap produces a null hf, while a continuous control produces a non-null hf.

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Gap-corrupted HRV segments can still contribute frequency-domain power despite the new validation, so the intended protection is incomplete and should be fixed before merge.

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The PR hardens HRV Welch spectral estimation by rejecting segments whose beat timestamps do not span at least 80% of the nominal window, preventing mid-recording dropouts from producing misleading high-tier frequency metrics. Tests cover both the corrupted-gap regression and a valid continuous control.

Flow diagram for Welch segment validation

flowchart TD
    A["Welch segment beat timestamps"] --> B{"At least 16 beats and spans 80% of segSec?"}
    B -->|No| C["Reject segment"]
    B -->|Yes| D["Run lombScargle"]
    D --> E["Compute band power"]
    C --> F["Return null when no valid segments remain"]
    E --> G["Publish HRV frequency metrics"]
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Require Welch segments to be both beat-dense and sufficiently time-complete before computing Lomb–Scargle band power.
  • Reject segments with fewer than the minimum beats or with a time span below 80% of the segment duration.
  • Preserve existing downstream band-power aggregation while preventing gap-corrupted segments from being treated as continuous spectra.
  • Align the validation with the established respiratory-rate Welch segmentation guard.
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_freq.dart
Add regression coverage for rejecting mid-segment gaps while retaining valid continuous recordings.
  • Construct a gap-corrupted HF segment that still meets the beat-count threshold and assert HF is absent.
  • Add a no-gap control recording and assert HF remains available.
test/onehz/clinical_test.dart

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In `@lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_freq.dart`:
- Line 237: Update the segment validation before lombScargle to reject segments
with excessive internal beat-time gaps, using the maximum adjacent timestamp
difference in addition to the existing point-count and endpoint-span checks.
Adjust the relevant fixture so beats remain on both sides of one HF segment’s
internal gap, and add coverage verifying that this segment is rejected.

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Comment thread lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_freq.dart
endpoint span (ts.last-ts.first < segSec*0.8) misses a dropout with
beats surviving near both edges of the window - span looks fine, the
middle is empty. guard the single largest inter-beat gap too (>20% of
segSec), per coderabbit review on #72.
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abdulsaheel merged commit 8285710 into main Sep 19, 2026
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