Categorizing automatically generated physiological data based on industry guidelines
First Claim
1. A method for mapping a physiological signal into clinical guideline parameters, the method comprising:
- receiving the physiological signal, the physiological signal having a characteristic that may represent an anomaly;
mapping the received physiological signal to a clinical guideline condition space;
determining a probability that the mapped signal with which the anomaly is associated represents one of a first clinical guideline condition corresponding to a referral indication or a second clinical guideline condition corresponding to an absence of the referral indication; and
presenting the determined probability to a user,whereby a referral decision is made responsive to the determined probability that the anomaly is associated with the first clinical guideline condition.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for mapping a physiological signal into clinical guideline parameters are disclosed. A physiological signal having a characteristic that may represent an anomaly is received and mapped to a clinical guideline condition space. Probabilities are determined that the mapped signal with which the anomaly may be associated represents a first clinical guideline condition corresponding to a referral indication or a second clinical guideline condition corresponding to an absence of the referral indication. The determined probability is presented and a referral decision is made responsive to the determined probability that the anomaly is associated with the first clinical guideline condition.
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34 Claims
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1. A method for mapping a physiological signal into clinical guideline parameters, the method comprising:
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receiving the physiological signal, the physiological signal having a characteristic that may represent an anomaly; mapping the received physiological signal to a clinical guideline condition space; determining a probability that the mapped signal with which the anomaly is associated represents one of a first clinical guideline condition corresponding to a referral indication or a second clinical guideline condition corresponding to an absence of the referral indication; and presenting the determined probability to a user, whereby a referral decision is made responsive to the determined probability that the anomaly is associated with the first clinical guideline condition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for mapping a physiological signal into clinical guideline parameters for distinguishing between a first condition corresponding to a referral indication and a second condition corresponding to an absence of the referral indication, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving the physiological signal, the physiological signal including a characteristic that may contain an anomaly representing a referral indication, the anomaly being within at least one predetermined physiological event of the physiological signal; computing a normalized energy profile for the at least one predetermined physiological event representative of the anomaly; mapping the normalized energy profile to a clinical guideline condition space; determining probabilities that the mapped normalized energy profile is associated with each of the first condition and the second condition; and presenting the determined probabilities. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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8. A method for assisting in a referral indication of heart murmurs, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving an acoustic signal representing heart sounds; parsing the received acoustic signal into predetermined physiological events including a plurality of systolic intervals and a plurality of diastolic intervals; computing a first normalized mid-range energy representative of a median systolic interval and a second normalized mid-range energy representative of a median diastolic interval, respectively, the first and second normalized mid-range energies computed from the parsed acoustic signal; characterizing the median systolic interval based on the first normalized mid-range energy; determining probabilities relative to a first condition associated with the referral indication and a second condition associated with an absence of the referral indication based on the characterized median systolic interval; and presenting the first normalized mid-range energy, the second normalized mid-range energy and the determined probabilities, whereby the presented first normalized mid-range energy, the second normalized mid-range energy and the determined probabilities may be used to determine whether a referral is indicated. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A system for mapping a heart sound signal to clinical guideline referral indicators, the system comprising:
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an input terminal for receiving the heart sound signal including systolic intervals and diastolic intervals; a murmur detector for computing a statistic that a murmur is present from the heart sound signal; a normalized mid-range energy calculator for computing a normalized mid-range energy profile from the heart sound signal, the normalized mid-range energy profile representative of a median systolic interval of the heart sound signal; a clinical guideline referral converter for mapping the normalized mid-range energy profile to a first clinical guideline condition associated with a referral indication and a second clinical guideline condition associated with an absence of the referral indication and determining probabilities that the normalized mid-range energy profile is associated with the first or the second clinical guideline conditions; and a display for displaying the normalized mid-range energy profile, the murmur detection statistic, and the determined probabilities. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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25. A display for a clinical device, the display comprising:
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a first normalized mid-range energy profile associated with a median systolic interval of a heart sound signal; a second normalized mid-range energy profile associated with a median diastolic interval of the heart sound signal; at least one probability indicator which indicates that the median systolic interval represents a first clinical guideline condition associated with a referral indication and a second clinical guideline condition associated with an absence of the referral indication; and murmur detection indicators indicating the detection of murmurs in the heart sound signal. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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