ARRHYTHMIA DETECTION USING HIDDEN REGULARITY TO IMPROVE SPECIFICITY
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1. A method for detecting a target arrhythmia in heart rhythm data with high specificity, comprising:
- obtaining heart rhythm data generated by monitoring the activity of a heart with a medical monitoring device;
selecting a predetermined number of contiguous heart beat intervals as an analysis segment;
analyzing the analysis segment of heart rhythm data to identify an irregularity in the interval data that is indicative of an arrhythmia, wherein the indicated arrhythmia is not necessarily the target arrhythmia;
if an irregularity in the interval data is found, then reanalyzing the analysis segment to identify a hidden regularity in the heart beat intervals that would indicate the identified arrhythmia is not the target arrhythmia; and
if the hidden regularity is not identified, then designating the analysis segment as the target arrhythmia and storing the analysis segment and the designation on a non-transitory computer readable medium.
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Abstract
A method for identifying a target arrhythmia, for example, atrial fibrillation, with very high specificity includes obtaining heart rhythm data such as EKG data, selecting and analyzing a segment of the data for arrhythmia, if an arrhythmia is found then reanalyzing the segment of data for a hidden regularity that would indicate the data is not the target arrhythmia. If no hidden regularity is found, then identifying the segment as the target arrhythmia.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for detecting a target arrhythmia in heart rhythm data with high specificity, comprising:
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obtaining heart rhythm data generated by monitoring the activity of a heart with a medical monitoring device; selecting a predetermined number of contiguous heart beat intervals as an analysis segment; analyzing the analysis segment of heart rhythm data to identify an irregularity in the interval data that is indicative of an arrhythmia, wherein the indicated arrhythmia is not necessarily the target arrhythmia; if an irregularity in the interval data is found, then reanalyzing the analysis segment to identify a hidden regularity in the heart beat intervals that would indicate the identified arrhythmia is not the target arrhythmia; and if the hidden regularity is not identified, then designating the analysis segment as the target arrhythmia and storing the analysis segment and the designation on a non-transitory computer readable medium. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) in heart rhythm data from a heart, comprising:
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monitoring the electrical activity of a heart using a wearable detector comprising a plurality of electrodes, a microprocessor in signal communication with the electrodes, and a data storage component to obtain a heart rhythm data set; selecting a number of contiguous heart beat intervals as an analysis segment size; analyzing a segment of the heart rhythm data set containing the number of contiguous heart beat intervals to identify an irregularity in the segment of the heart rhythm data that is indicative of an arrhythmia, wherein the indicated arrhythmia is not necessarily AF; if an irregularity is found in the segment of the heart rhythm data, then reanalyzing the segment to identify a hidden regularity that would indicate the identified arrhythmia is not AF; and if the hidden regularity is not identified, then designating the segment of the heart rhythm data as AF and storing the segment of the heart rhythm data on the data storage component. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for determining an arrhythmia burden in heart rhythm data comprising:
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monitoring the electrical activity of a heart to obtain a heart rhythm data set; segmenting the heart rhythm data set into a plurality of segments having a predetermined number of heart beat intervals; analyzing a first segment of the heart rhythm data for a target arrhythmia using a method having high specificity; and if the method having high specificity indicates the target arrhythmia is present in the first analysis segment then (i) identifying the first segment of the heart rhythm data as indicating the target arrhythmia;
(ii) analyzing or reanalyzing adjacent segments of the heart rhythm data for the target arrhythmia using a method having a higher sensitivity sequentially until the method having higher sensitivity does not indicate the target arrhythmia; and
(iii) identifying an earliest segment for which the higher sensitivity method indicates the target arrhythmia as a start of the target arrhythmia and identifying a latest segment for which the higher sensitivity method indicates the target arrhythmia as an end of the target arrhythmia.
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