Non-invasive method and system for characterizing cardiovascular systems
First Claim
1. A method for localizing and characterizing both the architectural features and function of cardiovascular tissues, comprising the steps ofobtaining ECG data for the heart;
- processing the ECG data to localize, image, and characterize architectural features and function of tissues without use of other measuring devices or invasive procedures, the processing including inputting N-dimensional ECG data to a modified moving average filter to filter the N-dimensional ECG data and performing a phase space transformation process on the filtered N-dimensional ECG data in which a dynamically rich system is synchronized with a physiological signal; and
using phase information to determine a location of an architectural feature or function of the tissues to display an abnormality associated with the tissues in a 3-D image.
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Abstract
The present disclosure uses physiological data, ECG signals as an example, to evaluate cardiac structure and function in mammals. Two approaches are presented, e.g., a model-based analysis and a space-time analysis. The first method uses a modified Matching Pursuit (MMP) algorithm to find a noiseless model of the ECG data that is sparse and does not assume periodicity of the signal. After the model is derived, various metrics and subspaces are extracted to image and characterize cardiovascular tissues using complex-sub-harmonic-frequencies (CSF) quasi-periodic and other mathematical methods. In the second method, space-time domain is divided into a number of regions, the density of the ECG signal is computed in each region and inputted into a learning algorithm to image and characterize the tissues.
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1. A method for localizing and characterizing both the architectural features and function of cardiovascular tissues, comprising the steps of
obtaining ECG data for the heart; -
processing the ECG data to localize, image, and characterize architectural features and function of tissues without use of other measuring devices or invasive procedures, the processing including inputting N-dimensional ECG data to a modified moving average filter to filter the N-dimensional ECG data and performing a phase space transformation process on the filtered N-dimensional ECG data in which a dynamically rich system is synchronized with a physiological signal; and using phase information to determine a location of an architectural feature or function of the tissues to display an abnormality associated with the tissues in a 3-D image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20)
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18. A method for localizing and characterizing both the architectural features and function of cardiovascular tissues, comprising the steps of
obtaining ECG data for the heart; -
processing the ECG data to localize, image, and characterize architectural features and function of tissues without use of other measuring devices or invasive procedures; using phase information to determine a location of an architectural feature or function of the tissues to display an abnormality associated with the tissues in a 3-D image; using at least 24 variables corresponding to the at least 24 dimensional dynamical space density as terms that are selected in nonlinear combinations selected from a list comprising sin, cos, cos h, sin h, Rossler functions, product, division, addition, subtraction, Gaussian, exponential functions and become candidates based on the genetic operators selected from a second list comprising inheritance, mutation, selection, and crossover; generating offspring function combinations that are evaluated and optimized by freezing all but one variable; optimizing an unfrozen variable to reduce an absolute error of a model; optimizing in a sequence, the other variables until all at least 24 variable have a lowest error; using a fitness function to determine a solution having a lowest absolute error; and continuing until a highest-ranking solution'"'"'s fitness has reached a plateau such that successive iterations no longer produce better results. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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