Signal compression based on curvature parameters

• US 8,280,508 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2009
• Issued: 10/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers Incorporated (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Sweeney, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): EVANISKO, GEORGE ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US12/391,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20090192395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,316 Days
• Field of Search: 607/4, 607/5, 607/9, 607/14, 600/509, 600515-518
• US Class Current: 607/9
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/349 Detecting specific parameters of the electrocardiograph cycle
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7232 involving compression of the physiological signal, e.g. to extend the signal recording period
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7239 using differentiation including higher order derivatives
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/371 Capture, i.e. successful stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/08 Feature extraction
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/30 Compression speech analysis-synthesis for redundancy reduction G10L19/00; for image communication H04N; Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction

Abstract

For a sampled signal, storing characteristic points generated based on parameters corresponding to curvature of the signal. The characteristic points include a time of occurrence of a lobe in a curvature series based on the signal and a corresponding amplitude of the signal. The characteristic points provide a compressed version of the sampled signal. The signal is reconstructed by establishing a function between a chronological sequence of characteristic points. For a repetitive signal, the stored data includes a code to indicate a time of reoccurrence of a previous cycle or data corresponding to differences between a previous cycle and a current cycle.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an input circuit adapted to receive a sampled signal;

a controller coupled to the input circuit and programmed to;

generate a curvature series as a function of the sampled signal, the curvature series corresponding to a curvature signal;

identify lobes in the curvature series, the lobes each corresponding to a portion of the curvature signal starting when the curvature signal crosses a first threshold in one direction and ending when the curvature signal crosses a second threshold in an opposite direction;

calculate an area for each lobe of the identified lobes between the portion of the curvature signal corresponding to the each lobe and a baseline;

identify a parameter of the each lobe if the area of the each lobe is greater than a predetermined value; and

generate a characteristic point including a time of the parameter and an amplitude corresponding to the time of the parameter; and

a memory coupled to the curvature series generator and adapted to store the characteristic points generated by the controller.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a cardiac electrode, and wherein the input circuit is coupled to a cardiac electrode.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller is programmed to identify a centroid of a lobe of the identified lobes.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller is programmed to identify a start time of a lobe of the identified lobes.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller is programmed to identify an end time of a lobe of the identified lobes.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the controller includes a processor.

7. The system of claim 1 further including a telemetry circuit adapted to wirelessly communicate the plurality of characteristic points stored in the memory.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the characteristic point includes the area of the each lobe.

9. An implantable medical device, comprising:

an input circuit to receive a sampled cardiac signal;

a controller coupled to the input circuit wherein the controller is programmed to;

generate a curvature series as a function of the sampled signal, the curvature series corresponding to a curvature signal;

identify lobes in the curvature series, the lobes each corresponding to a portion of the curvature signal starting when the curvature signal crosses a first threshold in one direction and ending when the curvature signal crosses a second threshold in an opposite direction;

calculate an area for each lobe of the identified lobes between the portion of the curvature signal corresponding to the each lobe and a baseline; and

generate a plurality of characteristic points as a function of the curvature series, each characteristic point of the plurality of characteristic points associated with a lobe of the identified lobes that has an area greater than a predetermined value and including a time component corresponding to a time of occurrence of the lobe and an amplitude component of the sampled cardiac signal at the time of the occurrence; and

a memory coupled to the controller and adapted to store each characteristic point of the plurality of characteristic points.

10. The device of claim 9 wherein the controller is programmed to generate a first data set corresponding to a first group of characteristic points and the memory is adapted to store the first data set.

11. The device of claim 10 wherein the controller is programmed to generate a second data set and a repetition marker corresponding to a second data set wherein the second data set includes a second group of characteristic points that substantially match the first group of characteristic points and wherein the repetition marker identifies the first data set.

12. The device of claim 11 wherein the controller is programmed to determine a time value as a function of a time of occurrence of the second data set, the time value associated with the repetition marker.

13. The device of claim 10 wherein the controller is programmed to generate a difference marker corresponding to a second data set wherein the second data set includes a second group of characteristic points that differs from the first group of characteristic points and wherein the difference marker identities the first data set.

14. The device of claim 13 wherein the controller is programmed to generate difference data associated with the difference marker, the difference data corresponding to a difference between the first data set and the second data set.

15. The device of claim 9 wherein the controller includes a processor and wherein the memory includes executable instructions accessible to the processor.

16. The device of claim 9 wherein the controller includes hardwired circuitry.

17. The device of claim 9 wherein the controller includes a filter adapted to generate a running average of the sampled cardiac signal.

18. The device of claim 9 wherein the controller includes a comparator.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the comparator is adapted to determine if the each lobe is making a positive or negative excursion from the baseline.

20. The device of claim 9 wherein the time of occurrence of the lobe includes a time of occurrence of a centroid of the lobe.

21. The device of claim 9 further comprising a therapy circuit coupled to the controller, and wherein the controller includes a circuit to control the therapy circuit.