Method and system for near real-time analysis and display of electrocardiographic signals
First Claim
1. A method of analyzing an electrocardiographic (ECG) signal, for determining diagnostic information comprising:
- analyzing the ECG signal to determine enhanced predetermined characteristics of the ECG signal according to the steps of,extracting data relating to said signals as received by an ECG monitoring system;
embedding said data into a data matrix;
compressing said data matrix into a compressed-data-form;
modifying selected data values in said compressed-data-form based on a function of said data values in said compressed-data-form;
expanding said compressed-data-form to an enhanced data matrix that contains data representing said enhanced predetermined characteristics.determining from said enhanced data matrix said diagnostic information.
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Abstract
The multidimensional ECG processing and display system of the present invention is used with an electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring system. Input ECG data from multiple, sequential time intervals is collected and formatted into a two-dimensional matrix. The two-dimensional matrix is decomposed using singular value decomposition (SVD) to obtain its corresponding singular values and singular vectors, a compressed form of the matrix. The singular vectors are analyzed and filtered to identify and enhance signal components of interest. Selected singular vectors are transformed into their frequency domain representations by the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), or related techniques. Certain data elements in the two-dimensional matrix are enhanced or diminished by modifying the singular values within groups of singular vectors to enhance certain objects that are associated with the ECG data and to diminish other features within the data. The enhanced data is expanded back into its original form and features in the ECG data are displayed as opaque objects within a transparent data cube.
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54 Claims
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1. A method of analyzing an electrocardiographic (ECG) signal, for determining diagnostic information comprising:
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analyzing the ECG signal to determine enhanced predetermined characteristics of the ECG signal according to the steps of, extracting data relating to said signals as received by an ECG monitoring system; embedding said data into a data matrix; compressing said data matrix into a compressed-data-form; modifying selected data values in said compressed-data-form based on a function of said data values in said compressed-data-form; expanding said compressed-data-form to an enhanced data matrix that contains data representing said enhanced predetermined characteristics. determining from said enhanced data matrix said diagnostic information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of determining the presence or absence of a predetermined level of high frequency spectral energy in the late QRS signal of an electrocardiograph signal, comprising the steps of:
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extracting data relating to said electrocardiograph signal as received by an ECG monitoring system; embedding said data into a data matrix; decomposing said data matrix into singular vectors; segmenting said singular vectors into a series of time intervals; transforming said segmented singular vectors into a corresponding power spectra form; and indicating the presence of ventricular late potentials by determining whether said predetermined level of spectral energy is present in said spectra form. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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29. A system for analyzing an electrocardiograph signal, and for determining diagnostic information therefrom comprising:
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means for analyzing said ECG signal to determine enhanced predetermined characteristics thereof, means for extracting data signals relating to said signals as received by an ECG monitoring system; means for embedding said data into a data matrix; means for compressing said data matrix into a compressed-data-form; means for modifying selected data values in said compressed-data-form based on a function of said data values in said compressed-data-form; means for expanding said compressed-data-form to an enhanced data matrix that contains data representing said enhanced predetermined characteristics, means for determining said diagnostic information from said enhanced data matrix. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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