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HEALTH STATE MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD

A device for monitoring the health state is made in a chip including a semiconductor die integrating an electric potential sensor and a cardiac parameter determination unit. The potential sensor is configured to detect potential variations on the body of a living being and associated with a heart rhythm and to generate a cardiac signal. The cardiac parameter determination unit is configured to receive the cardiac signal and determine cardiac parameters indicative of a health state. In particular, the cardiac parameter determination unit is configured to detect triggering events and to determine features of the cardiac signal in time windows defined by the triggering events. The die also integrates a decision unit, configured to receive the cardiac parameters and generate a health signal based on a comparison with threshold values. The cardiac parameters include heart rate and QRS-complex.

HEALTH STATE MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD

A device for monitoring the health state is made in a chip including a semiconductor die integrating an electric potential sensor and a cardiac parameter determination unit. The potential sensor is configured to detect potential variations on the body of a living being and associated with a heart rhythm and to generate a cardiac signal. The cardiac parameter determination unit is configured to receive the cardiac signal and determine cardiac parameters indicative of a health state. In particular, the cardiac parameter determination unit is configured to detect triggering events and to determine features of the cardiac signal in time windows defined by the triggering events. The die also integrates a decision unit, configured to receive the cardiac parameters and generate a health signal based on a comparison with threshold values. The cardiac parameters include heart rate and QRS-complex.

CARDIOGRAM COLLECTION AND SOURCE LOCATION IDENTIFICATION
20230049769 · 2023-02-16 ·

Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration. The systems may generate a cardiogram for each source configuration from the modeled electromagnetic output of that source configuration for use in predicting the source location of an arrhythmia.

Methods, Systems, Devices, and Components for Extracting Atrial Signals from QRS and QRST Complexes
20230050834 · 2023-02-16 ·

Disclosed are various examples and embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods configured to extract atrial signals from electrical signals acquired from a patient suffering from atrial fibrillation. The electrical signals acquired from the patient may be intra-cardiac signals or body surface electrode signals, or both. At least portions of QRS or QRS-T complexes corresponding to determined initial synchronization times are used to generate Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) corresponding to the extracted QRS complexes. A series of steps follow to generate isolated atrial signals corresponding to each electrical signal by subtracting generated reconstructed signals corresponding to each such electrical signal therefrom.

Methods, Systems, Devices, and Components for Extracting Atrial Signals from QRS and QRST Complexes
20230050834 · 2023-02-16 ·

Disclosed are various examples and embodiments of systems, devices, components and methods configured to extract atrial signals from electrical signals acquired from a patient suffering from atrial fibrillation. The electrical signals acquired from the patient may be intra-cardiac signals or body surface electrode signals, or both. At least portions of QRS or QRS-T complexes corresponding to determined initial synchronization times are used to generate Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) corresponding to the extracted QRS complexes. A series of steps follow to generate isolated atrial signals corresponding to each electrical signal by subtracting generated reconstructed signals corresponding to each such electrical signal therefrom.

Atrial arrhythmia episode detection in a cardiac medical device
11576607 · 2023-02-14 · ·

A medical device is configured to detect an atrial tachyarrhythmia episode. The device senses a cardiac signal, identifies R-waves in the cardiac signal attendant ventricular depolarizations and determines classification factors from the R-waves identified over a predetermined time period. The device classifies the predetermined time period as one of unclassified, atrial tachyarrhythmia and non-atrial tachyarrhythmia by comparing the determined classification factors to classification criteria. A classification criterion is adjusted from a first classification criterion to a second classification criterion after at least one time period being classified as atrial tachyarrhythmia. An atrial tachyarrhythmia episode is detected by the device in response to at least one subsequent time period being classified as atrial tachyarrhythmia based on the adjusted classification criterion.

Heart signal waveform processing system and method
11576618 · 2023-02-14 · ·

A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for receiving a single-lead heartbeat waveform for a user; comparing one or more portions of the single-lead heartbeat waveform to one or more ML-generated waveform features to associate a heart health indicator with the single-lead heartbeat waveform; and providing the heart health indicator to a recipient.

Detecting artifacts in a signal

This disclosure is directed towards detecting artifacts in an ECG signal. An ECG system may include multiple sensors which can sense an ECG signal when attached to a patient. Bipolar leads connect the sensors, and provide the ECG signal from the sensors to a computing device. The computing device receives respective signals from the bipolar leads, where the respective signals are indicative of the ECG signal. The computing device identifies, based on the respective signals, a potential artifact corresponding to a subset of the plurality of bipolar leads. The computing device determines that each lead of the subset of the plurality of bipolar leads is connected to a common sensor. The computing device may use signals originating from a remainder of the bipolar leads (e.g., the bipolar leads that are not connected to the sensor(s) where the artifact is detected) to detect a condition of the patient.

Detecting artifacts in a signal

This disclosure is directed towards detecting artifacts in an ECG signal. An ECG system may include multiple sensors which can sense an ECG signal when attached to a patient. Bipolar leads connect the sensors, and provide the ECG signal from the sensors to a computing device. The computing device receives respective signals from the bipolar leads, where the respective signals are indicative of the ECG signal. The computing device identifies, based on the respective signals, a potential artifact corresponding to a subset of the plurality of bipolar leads. The computing device determines that each lead of the subset of the plurality of bipolar leads is connected to a common sensor. The computing device may use signals originating from a remainder of the bipolar leads (e.g., the bipolar leads that are not connected to the sensor(s) where the artifact is detected) to detect a condition of the patient.

Evaluation of vagus nerve stimulation using heart rate variability analysis

An implantable vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) system includes a sensor configured to measure ECG data for a patient, a stimulation subsystem configured to deliver VNS to the patient, and a control system configured to perform a heart rate variability analysis with the ECG data. In some aspects, performing the heart rate variability analysis includes measuring R-R intervals between successive R-waves for the ECG data measured during a stimulation period and a baseline period, plotting each R-R interval against an immediately preceding R-R interval for each of the stimulation period and the baseline period, and determining at least one of a standard deviation from an axis of a line perpendicular to an identity line for each of the stimulation period plot and the baseline period plot or a centroid of each of the stimulation period plot and the baseline period plot.