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with a slow heart and normal breathing the breath is ~2.5 beats long, so real rsa drives the diff acf1 under the floor and rmssd gets refused every night. the spectral exemption still misses most of these.

when both gates refuse, check the breathing line is steady in Hz across the night instead. pool each 5-min window's spectrum on a beat axis and on a Hz axis (rescaled by its mean rr). publish only if the Hz pooling shows a line at 8-30 br/min that is sharper than the beat pooling, and only from windows whose peak sits on it, at floor confidence. if hr barely moves, the two poolings match and the night stays refused. jitter, alternation and grid artifacts are tied to the beat, so they don't line up in Hz.

edge needs a repin + kAlgoVersion bump after this lands.

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Allow carefully validated respiratory-line evidence to recover low-rate nocturnal RMSSD while continuing to refuse jitter-dominated recordings.

New Features:

  • Recover RMSSD for low-heart-rate nights when respiration remains stable in Hz despite beat-domain jitter rejection, while retaining strict artifact and confidence safeguards.

Bug Fixes:

  • Prevent valid slow-heart respiratory sinus arrhythmia from being refused solely because breathing approaches the beat-domain Nyquist limit.

Enhancements:

  • Apply Hz-versus-beat spectral pooling across five-minute windows to distinguish respiration from beat-tied jitter, alternation, and grid artifacts.
  • Publish breathing-based HRV only from windows aligned with the detected respiratory line and mark it at floor confidence.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for drifting and steady heart rates, variable breathing, excessive jitter, and beat-time artifacts.

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  • New Features
    • RMSSD can be reported for qualifying sleep periods with a consistent breathing-related heart-rate pattern, even when jitter checks would otherwise reject it. These results carry lower confidence.
    • Nocturnal and sleep-session RMSSD use qualifying windows when available; results remain unavailable if no windows qualify.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Jitter rejection alone no longer prevents RMSSD reporting when fallback criteria are met. pNN50 remains unavailable in these cases.

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Walkthrough

RMSSD calculations can use qualifying five-minute windows when the jitter gate refuses the usual calculation. The fallback checks for a steady breathing line in Hz. Nocturnal and sleep-session metrics use the same window selection.

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Breathing-line RMSSD fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Qualify steady breathing windows
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
A Welch PSD helper and pooled-spectrum checks select windows with aligned peaks at a shared breathing frequency in Hz.
Apply the time-domain fallback
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
The selector uses ordinary cleared windows first. If none remain and ACF1 is below the floor, it tries breathing-qualified windows. Fallback RMSSD has confidence 0.3; pNN50 remains refused.
Use fallback in nocturnal and session metrics
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart, test/onehz/clinical_test.dart
Nocturnal RMSSD uses the median of retained windows. Sleep-session RMSSD uses their mean. Tests cover RSA-positive drifting-HR nights and controls without RSA.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant hrvTime
  participant _breathingRmssd
  participant _steadyBreathingWindows
  hrvTime->>_breathingRmssd: calculate fallback RMSSD
  _breathingRmssd->>_steadyBreathingWindows: select qualifying windows
  _steadyBreathingWindows-->>_breathingRmssd: windows or null
  _breathingRmssd-->>hrvTime: RMSSD or null
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9870e

The new breathing-line fallback can publish RMSSD on nights that should stay refused. Short noisy segments can push the published value up while not counting against the noise check. Align the noise check with the differences used for the published value before merging. The flat-heart-rate test control should also hold jitter constant so it actually tests the drift distinction.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9870e

The change remains within existing heart-rate metric inputs and consumers, with substantial rejection checks. A shared qualification gap may nevertheless allow differences without spectral support into newly published results. No privilege expansion or security-sensitive attack path was established, and external consumer and deployment behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The shared fallback qualifies complete spectral segments but publishes every difference in selected windows, including short fragmented runs and segment tails without spectral support. Those differences also enter the noise-share denominator. This can weaken containment of jitter-refused data across all three RMSSD outputs; the acceptance and magnitude of a concrete mixed-signal case remain unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The established propagation scope is the three RMSSD outputs and reported SleepSession.avgHrv. The inspected consumer calculates avgHrv after staging; a privileged operation, cross-tenant effect, or attacker-controlled production ingress was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The changed path uses the existing RR interval and timestamp inputs. Its controls concern signal quality: ordinary acceptance is attempted first, insufficient fallback qualification returns null, and successful fallback results are labeled with floor confidence. These checks are not identity or authorization enforcement.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The qualification/publication membership mismatch is a shared refusal-control concern, rather than an established security exploit. Spectral prominence and the noise-share ceiling limit acceptance, but do not guarantee that all published differences were represented in the qualifying spectrum.
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Introduces a conservative Hz-domain spectral fallback that can recover low-heart-rate RSA when beat-domain jitter gates reject RMSSD, while requiring heart-rate drift and strong cross-window breathing-line evidence; outputs remain floor-confidence and are covered by targeted acceptance and rejection tests.

Sequence diagram for conservative breathing-line RMSSD recovery

sequenceDiagram
    participant Metric as HRV metric
    participant Windows as 5-minute windows
    participant Fallback as _steadyBreathingWindows
    participant PSD as _windowPsd
    participant Output as RMSSD output
    Metric->>Windows: collect RR and difference runs
    Metric->>Metric: nnDiffAcf1(runs)
    Metric->>Fallback: _steadyBreathingWindows(winRuns, meanRrMs)
    Fallback->>Fallback: _onCoarseLattice(all, ssd / nd)
    Fallback->>PSD: _windowPsd(diffRuns, fc)
    PSD-->>Fallback: beat-axis power
    Fallback->>PSD: _windowPsd(diffRuns, fh)
    PSD-->>Fallback: Hz-axis power
    Fallback->>Fallback: select 8-30 br/min line sharper than beat pooling
    Fallback-->>Metric: matching window indices
    Metric->>Output: publish selected RMSSD at confidence 0.3
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Flow diagram for the Hz-domain RMSSD fallback

flowchart TD
    A[5-minute RR windows] --> B[Compute diff runs and mean RR]
    B --> C[Evaluate night jitter gate]
    C -->|Normal gate passes| D[Keep cleared windows]
    C -->|Both gates refuse| E[_steadyBreathingWindows]
    E --> F[Pool Welch spectra on beat axis]
    E --> G[Rescale spectra by mean RR and pool on Hz axis]
    F --> H{Hz line is sharper and 8-30 br/min?}
    G --> H
    H -->|No| I[RMSSD absent]
    H -->|Yes| J[Keep windows whose peaks match the Hz line]
    J --> K{At least 6 matching windows}
    K -->|No| I
    K -->|Yes| L[Publish RMSSD at confidence floor 0.3]
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Change Details Files
Adds a last-resort spectral exemption for low-heart-rate nights whose breathing frequency is stable in Hz despite beat-domain jitter rejection.
  • Builds normalized Welch spectra for each 5-minute window on cycles-per-beat and mean-RR-rescaled Hz axes.
  • Requires sufficient windows, heart-rate drift, an 8–30 br/min interior Hz peak, prominence over beat pooling, and per-window peak alignment before selecting windows.
  • Rejects coarse-lattice, alternation, flat-heart-rate, insufficient-coverage, and weak-signal cases.
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
Integrates breathing-line window selection into all affected HRV metrics while preserving conservative confidence and provenance.
  • Keeps the existing gates first and invokes the spectral fallback only when jitter refusal leaves no usable output.
  • Publishes RMSSD from selected windows at confidence floor 0.3 and annotates the metric note with the fallback rationale.
  • Applies the fallback to hrvTime, nocturnalRmssd, and sleepSessionWindowedRmssd, including per-window RR reconstruction and mean-RR tracking.
lib/src/onehz/clinical/hrv_time.dart
Adds regression coverage for genuine slow-heart RSA, flat-heart-rate refusal, and beat-tied jitter artifacts.
  • Tests drifting heart rate with an 18 br/min breathing line for publication and floor confidence.
  • Verifies the same breathing signal with flat heart rate remains refused.
  • Verifies beat-time jitter without RSA remains refused across all HRV outputs.
test/onehz/clinical_test.dart

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- Around line 342-350: Add flat-heart-rate refusal assertions alongside the
existing `sleepSessionWindowedRmssd` check in the `slowNight` test: verify
`nocturnalRmssd` is absent and `hrvTime` returns a null RMSSD, preserving the
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- Around line 332-341: Adjust the deterministic fixture used by `slowNight` in
the HRV-02 test so both seeds clear the Nyquist guard with sufficient margin
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// Same night with the heart rate held flat: Hz and beats coincide, so
// stability in Hz proves nothing and the night stays refused.
final (fr, ft) = slowNight(seed, 0, 10);
expect(
sleepSessionWindowedRmssd(fr, ft,
startSec: 1, endSec: (ft.last / 1000).floor())
.present,
isFalse,
reason: 'seed $seed');

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add the flat-HR control for nocturnalRmssd and hrvTime as well.

The flat-HR night is checked only against sleepSessionWindowedRmssd. nocturnalRmssd and hrvTime use the same fallback, but hrvTime gets there through its own windowing in _breathingRmssd. Add the same "stays refused" assertions for those two paths.

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             isFalse,
             reason: 'seed $seed');
+        expect(nocturnalRmssd(fr, ft).present, isFalse, reason: 'seed $seed');
+        expect(hrvTime(fr, nnTimesMs: ft).value!.rmssd, isNull,
+            reason: 'seed $seed');
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// Same night with the heart rate held flat: Hz and beats coincide, so
// stability in Hz proves nothing and the night stays refused.
final (fr, ft) = slowNight(seed, 0, 10);
expect(
sleepSessionWindowedRmssd(fr, ft,
startSec: 1, endSec: (ft.last / 1000).floor())
.present,
isFalse,
reason: 'seed $seed');
// Same night with the heart rate held flat: Hz and beats coincide, so
// stability in Hz proves nothing and the night stays refused.
final (fr, ft) = slowNight(seed, 0, 10);
expect(
sleepSessionWindowedRmssd(fr, ft,
startSec: 1, endSec: (ft.last / 1000).floor())
.present,
isFalse,
reason: 'seed $seed');
expect(nocturnalRmssd(fr, ft).present, isFalse, reason: 'seed $seed');
expect(hrvTime(fr, nnTimesMs: ft).value!.rmssd, isNull,
reason: 'seed $seed');
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Add flat-heart-rate refusal assertions alongside the existing
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- Line 404: Update the `sq` accumulation used for RMSSD so its energy includes
only differences covered by `_windowPsd` segments, keeping the noise-share check
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var n = 0;
for (final r in winRuns[w]) {
for (final d in r) {
sq += d * d;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Measure jitter over the differences that supply RMSSD.

If a kept window contains a full spectral run and shorter noisy runs, _windowPsd excludes the short runs, but sq includes their differences. Their energy raises the denominator of the noise-share check without raising its PSD-based jitter estimate. A window can pass the 0.7 ceiling and publish RMSSD dominated by those noisy runs. Bound the energy outside PSD-covered segments, or exclude unsupported differences from both qualification and the published RMSSD. (docs.scipy.org)

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Update the `sq` accumulation used for RMSSD so its energy includes only
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published RMSSD based on the same supported differences.

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test('HRV-02: slow-heart RSA steady in Hz while HR drifts publishes', () {
for (var seed = 0; seed < 2; seed++) {
final (rr, ts) = slowNight(seed, 8, 10, 20);

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Hold jitter constant in the flat-HR control.

The positive case uses jitter 20, but the flat-HR control uses slowNight’s default jitter 60. Its refusal does not show that removing HR drift alone makes the two poolings match. Pass jitter 20 to the flat-HR control. Keep jitter 60 for the separate high-jitter control.

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Update the flat-HR control’s slowNight call in the relevant test to pass jitter
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