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Method and apparatus for non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular and related disorders

  • US 6,135,966 A
  • Filed: 05/01/1998
  • Issued: 10/24/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for diagnosing cardiovascular related illness, said method comprising the steps of:

  • (a) non-invasively obtaining a signal representative of a contour of an arterial pressure pulse over a single cardiac cycle and without disturbing the natural state of the artery;

    (b) extracting frequency localization information and temporal localization information from said signal;

    (c) providing the extracted information as an input to a neural network, the neural network having been trained with a plurality of training sets, each training set correlating an arterial pressure pulse contour with a known cardiovascular or related illness; and

    (d) generating an illness identification output from the neural network.

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