System and method for reconstructing cardiac signals associated with a complex rhythm disorder
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1. A system to reconstruct cardiac signals associated with a complex rhythm disorder received from a plurality of sensors associated spatially with a patient'"'"'s heart, the system comprising:
- at least one computing device configured to;
identify a plurality of discernible beats on high-confidence signals of sensors that are spatially adjacent to a sensor associated with a low-confidence signal, the discernible beats on the high-confidence signals corresponding to a non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal;
compute a time association between at least two activation onsets associated with the identified discernible beats on the high-confidence signals through the non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal;
define a time interval associated with the non-discernible beat about a region of the low-confidence signal where the computed time association crosses the non-discernible beat, the time interval indicating how early the non-discernible beat can activate based on a previous beat on the low-confidence signal that has a selected or determined activation onset and how late the non-discernible beat can terminate based on at least one predetermined property; and
assign an activation onset to the non-discernible beat based on the time association and the time interval; and
a catheter comprising the plurality of sensors to receive the cardiac signals from the patient'"'"'s heart and operatively coupled to the at least one computing device to provide the cardiac signals to the at least one computing device.
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Abstract
Reconstruction of cardiac information representing a complex rhythm disorder is facilitated by assigning activation onsets to non-discernible beats in low confidence signals based upon time associations relative to activation onsets in adjacent high confidence signals.
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1. A system to reconstruct cardiac signals associated with a complex rhythm disorder received from a plurality of sensors associated spatially with a patient'"'"'s heart, the system comprising:
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at least one computing device configured to; identify a plurality of discernible beats on high-confidence signals of sensors that are spatially adjacent to a sensor associated with a low-confidence signal, the discernible beats on the high-confidence signals corresponding to a non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal; compute a time association between at least two activation onsets associated with the identified discernible beats on the high-confidence signals through the non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal; define a time interval associated with the non-discernible beat about a region of the low-confidence signal where the computed time association crosses the non-discernible beat, the time interval indicating how early the non-discernible beat can activate based on a previous beat on the low-confidence signal that has a selected or determined activation onset and how late the non-discernible beat can terminate based on at least one predetermined property; and assign an activation onset to the non-discernible beat based on the time association and the time interval; and a catheter comprising the plurality of sensors to receive the cardiac signals from the patient'"'"'s heart and operatively coupled to the at least one computing device to provide the cardiac signals to the at least one computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An assembly to reconstruct cardiac signals associated with a complex rhythm disorder, the assembly comprising:
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a catheter comprising a plurality of sensors spatially associated with a patient'"'"'s heart to receive the cardiac signals; and a computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the sensors, the computer-readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to; identify a plurality of discernible beats on high-confidence signals of sensors that are spatially adjacent to a sensor associated with a low-confidence signal, the discernible beats on the high-confidence signals corresponding to a non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal; compute a time association between at least two activation onsets associated with the identified discernible beats on the high-confidence signals through the non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal; define a time interval associated with the non-discernible beat about a region of the low-confidence signal where the computed time association crosses the non-discernible beat, the defined time interval indicating how early the non-discernible beat can activate based on a previous beat on the low-confidence signal that has a selected or determined activation onset and how late the non-discernible beat can terminate based on at least one predetermined property; and assign an activation onset to the non-discernible beat based on the time association and the time interval. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of reconstructing cardiac signals associated with a complex rhythm disorder using a computing device, the computing device configured to perform the steps of:
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receiving cardiac information signals associated with a plurality of sensors spatially related with the patient'"'"'s heart; identifying a plurality of discernible beats on high-confidence signals of sensors that are spatially adjacent to a sensor associated with a low-confidence signal, the discernible beats on the high-confidence signals corresponding to a non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal; computing a time association between at least two activation onsets associated with the identified discernible beats on the high-confidence signals through the non-discernible beat on the low-confidence signal; defining a time interval associated with the non-discernible beat about a region of the low-confidence signal where the computed time association crosses the non-discernible beat, the time interval indicating how early the non-discernible beat can activate based on a previous beat on the low-confidence signal that has a selected or determined activation onset and how late the non-discernible beat can terminate based on at least one predetermined property; and assigning an activation onset to the non-discernible beat based on the time association and the time interval. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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