100 results about "Electrocardiographic waveform" patented technology

An heart rhythm monitoring device for a vehicle, which determines whether a driver has an arrhythmia includes a vehicle state determining portion that determines whether the vehicle is stopped; an electrode arranged on a steering wheel in a position where the driver grips the steering wheel; an electrocardiogram waveform obtaining portion that obtains a first electrocardiogram waveform from the electrode; and a signal processing and calculating portion that determines whether the heart rhythm of the driver is erratic based on the first electrocardiogram waveform. When the vehicle is in motion, the signal processing and calculating portion determines whether the heart rhythm of the driver is erratic based on the waveform component that is strong with respect to noise in the first electrocardiogram waveform.

A plurality of electrodes for measuring electrocardiogarphic waveforms are attached on body surface positions that constitute a subset of the standard 12-lead system. The measured electrocardiogarphic waveforms of said subset of said standard 12-lead system are used to calculate the electrocardiogarphic waveforms of remaining leads in the said standard 12-lead system. The measured and calculated electrocardiographic waveforms are synthesized to form a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. The invention is capable of monitoring the 12-lead electrocardiogram with reduced number of electrodes, wherein a portion of waveforms are directly measured and used as primary information for diagnosing heart disease, and the other portion of waveforms are derived from the measured leads and are used as a secondary information for improving the accuracy of diagnosis. The invention is especially useful in monitoring ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction in cases where mounting and maintaining ten electrodes to obtain 12-lead electrocardiogram is difficult, such as in ambulatory monitoring, long-term monitoring and home monitoring.

An in-vehicle electrocardiograph device includes: a direct electrode that is used to detect an electric potential of a body of a vehicle occupant in a state in which the direct electrode contacts a skin of the occupant; a capacitive-coupled electrode that is used to detect the electric potential of the body of the occupant in a state in which the capacitive-coupled electrode does not contact the skin of the occupant; and an electrocardiographic waveform determination unit that determines an electrocardiographic waveform of the occupant based on an electric potential at the direct electrode and an electric potential at the capacitive-coupled electrode.

A method for analyzing a subject-visit group of ECG waveforms captured digitally on an electrocardiograph machine, on a Holter monitor device or digitized from paper electrocardiograms. A cardiologist selects a subject-visit group from a number of subject-visit groups, and each ECG waveform of the subject-visit group is scanned for artifact. Those ECG waveforms containing artifact are annotated appropriately. A determination is made if measurement calipers are present in each ECG waveform, measurement calipers are added to ECG waveforms lacking measurement calipers, and a preliminary interpretation is assigned to each ECG waveform that lacks a preliminary interpretation. Each ECG waveform is assigned a grouping metric, and the ECG waveforms are segregated according to their grouping metric for display and evaluation.

The present invention provides a real-time interactive information system for measurement of 12-lead electrocardiogram waveforms and report editing, comprising a server providing cross-platform web page browsing for user to input commands or to review ECG reports and to edit or to measure information from patient further, a device for supporting internet interacting protocol which is a WEB SERVICE allowing for receiving commands issued by the server of cross-platform web page browsing and giving the server the feedback of processed ECG information by assistance from the database device, and a database device allowing for accessing patient's information to the internet interacting protocol.

A plurality of electrodes for measuring electrocardiogarphic waveforms are attached on body surface positions that constitute a subset of the standard 12-lead system. The measured electrocardiogarphic waveforms of said subset of said standard 12-lead system are used to calculate the electrocardiogarphic waveforms of remaining leads in the said standard 12-lead system. The measured and calculated electrocardiographic waveforms are synthesized to form a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram. The invention is capable of monitoring the 12-lead electrocardiogram with a reduced number of electrodes, wherein a portion of waveforms are directly measured and used as primary information for diagnosing heart disease, and the other portion of waveforms are derived from the measured leads and are used as a secondary information for improving the accuracy of diagnosis. The invention is especially useful in monitoring ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction in cases where mounting and maintaining ten electrodes to obtain 12-lead electrocardiogram is difficult, such as in ambulatory monitoring, long-term monitoring and home monitoring.

A portable electrocardiograph (100A), which has a first electrode (121) on the outer surface of a device body (110), and has an electrode leading out from the device body (110) to the outside of the device body (110) through a connecting cable (181). The second electrode (122). The first electrode (121) and the second electrode (122) are brought into contact with the surface of the body, and by measuring the potential difference generated between these electrodes, an electrocardiographic waveform is measured. As a result, myoelectric potentials generated by muscles other than the myocardium are not superimposed on the electrocardiographic waveform as noise, and the electrocardiographic waveform can be measured stably with high precision.

A living body state monitor apparatus includes: a living body information acquisition device to acquire living body information containing an electrocardiography waveform and a pulse waveform from a user; an irregular heartbeat detection section to detect an irregular heartbeat from the electrocardiography waveform; and a pulse wave feature quantity extraction section to extract a pulse wave feature quantity from a pulse wave corresponding to the irregular heartbeat. Further, a living body state determination section is included to determine a danger degree on user's living body state using both of (A) information on kind and / or continued time period of an irregular heartbeat detected by the irregular heartbeat detection section, and (B) a pulse wave feature quantity extracted by the pulse wave feature quantity extraction section, and / or a variation of the extracted pulse wave feature quantity.

Method and apparatus for preventing heart rhythm disturbances by recording cardiac electrical activity, measuring beat-to-beat variability in the morphology of electrocardiographic waveforms, and using the measured beat-to-beat variability to control the delivery of drug therapy and electrical impulses to the heart.

A portable electrocardiograph having a display function and a display method for the electrocardiograph are disclosed in which the information on display can be easily recognized visually. In measuring an electrocardiographic waveform using an electrocardiograph (1), the electrocardiograph (1) is held in position by a grip including a negative electrode (14) while at the same time pressing a contact section including a positive electrode (16) against an electrode contact portion other than the right hand of the subject. In the electrocardiograph (1), the measurement result such as an electrocardiographic waveform is displayed on a display unit (10) during the measurement operation. The measurement method is divided into what is called the induction mode I in which the contact section including the positive electrode (16) is pressed against the left hand of the subject, and what is called the induction mode II in which the contact section including the positive electrode (16) is pressed against the lower left abdomen of the subject. In the measurement conducted according to induction mode I, the measurement result is displayed in horizontal position on the display (10), while in the measurement conducted in the induction mode II, the measurement result is displayed in vertical position on the display (10).

A motion parameter measuring unit two-dimensionally measures a motion parameter of a myocardial tissue by a tracking process on time-series ultrasonic image data acquired by transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves to and from a sample. On the other hand, a time phase setting unit adds a diastolic heartbeat time phase, which is set on the basis of a systole end specified by a time phase where a cardiac cavity area of the ultrasonic image data is the smallest and a diastole end specified by an R wave in an electrocardiographic waveform of the sample, relative to the systole end to time-series parameter image data generated by a parameter image data generating unit on the basis of the motion parameter. An image data extracting unit extracts parameter image data to which the diastolic heartbeat time phase closest to a desired diastolic heartbeat time phase set by an input unit is added and displays the extracted parameter image data on a display unit.

A method for identifying a susceptibility of a subject to atrial-rhythm disturbances includes a) placing a plurality of sensors on the subject to measure a physiologic signal of the subject, and b) recording the physiologic signal from the sensor. The physiologic signal includes an atrial electrical activity of the subject. The method includes c) determining a beat-to-beat variability in the atrial electrical activity of the subject. The beat-to-beat variability includes alternans of electrocardiographic waveforms of a predetermined number of a sequence of heart beats. The method includes d) determining a susceptibility to atrial-rhythm disturbances of the subject using the beat-to-beat variability in the atrial electrical activity determined in step c), and e) generating a report of the susceptibility to atrial-rhythm disturbances of the subject.

A portable electrocardiograph includes an electrode unit brought into contact with a living body of a subject, a processing circuit measuring an electrical signal detected by the electrode unit with being in contact with the living body as an electrocardiographic waveform, and a display unit displaying a measurement result of the electrocardiographic waveform. In measurement, when a CPU of the processing circuit receives the electrical signal of the electrocardiographic waveform via the electrode unit, an amplifier circuit, a filter circuit, and an A / D converter, the CPU detects whether or not baseline fluctuation in the electrocardiographic waveform deviates from a predetermined range in which analysis of the waveform is acceptable, based on the received electrical signal. If the CPU detects deviation from the predetermined range, it displays such information on the display unit as a measurement result.

The invention relates to a method for assessing the irregularity degree at RR intervals of an electrocardiogram waveform. The method comprises the following steps that a first electrocardiogram waveform is obtained; the RR interval sequence in the first electrocardiogram waveform is obtained; resampling is carried out on the RR interval sequence of the first electrocardiogram waveform, a set number of RR interval differences are obtained, and normalization processing is carried out on the obtained interval differences; the probability distribution density is obtained according to the normalized interval differences, and the irregularity degree at the RR intervals of the electrocardiogram waveform is obtained according to the obtained probability distribution density. The invention further relates to a device for achieving the method. The method and device for assessing the irregularity degree at the RR intervals of the electrocardiogram waveform have the advantages that the obtained irregularity degree at the RR intervals can be accurate and is closer to the real circumstances.

A portable electrocardiograph having a display function and a display method for the electrocardiograph are disclosed in which the information on display can be easily recognized visually. In measuring an electrocardiographic waveform using an electrocardiograph (1), the electrocardiograph (1) is held in position by a grip including a negative electrode (14) while at the same time pressing a contact section including a positive electrode (16) against an electrode contact portion other than the right hand of the subject. In the electrocardiograph (1), the measurement result such as an electrocardiographic waveform is displayed on a display unit (10) during the measurement operation. The measurement method is divided into what is called the induction mode I in which the contact section including the positive electrode (16) is pressed against the left hand of the subject, and what is called the induction mode II in which the contact section including the positive electrode (16) is pressed against the lower left abdomen of the subject. In the measurement conducted according to induction mode I, the measurement result is displayed in horizontal position on the display (10), while in the measurement conducted in the induction mode II, the measurement result is displayed in vertical position on the display (10).

An X-ray CT apparatus detects a predetermined characteristic wave from each electrocardiographic waveform acquired from an electrocardiograph, predicts intervals with which the characteristic wave appears based on appearance times of the detected predetermined characteristic wave in each electrocardiographic waveform, and determines an X-ray irradiation start time based on the predicted interval time. After an instruction to start collection of X-ray intensity distribution data is received, if an appearance interval of a detected predetermined characteristic wave is within an acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as a normal heartbeat. If the appearance interval of the detected predetermined characteristic wave is outside the acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as an abnormal heartbeat. During a period after receiving the instruction to start the collection until reaching a time of starting the collection of X-ray detection information, when determined as an abnormal heartbeat, an X-ray irradiation start time is recalculated, and then determined.

The invention discloses a coronary heart disease self-diagnosis system based on electrocardiographic monitoring and back-propagation neural network, comprising an electrocardiographic collection terminal and a hospital monitoring center computer system, wherein the electrocardiographic collection terminal is composed of an electrocardiographic monitoring collector and a data transmission module based on wired or wireless data transmission. By means of multi-scale features of wavelet transformation, the system of the invention completes the extraction of wave peak points and the detection of ST segment in different scale decomposition coefficients by adopting a quadratic spline wavelet transformation method, thus the electrocardiographic waveform of the clinical patient can be accurately extracted. On the basis of correctively extracting characteristic points, an electrocardiogram ST segment pattern recognition model is set up by using a BP (Back-Propagation) neutral network in order to successfully recognize the pattern of the ST segment, and the initial weight and the threshold of the BP neutral network are optimized by using genetic algorithm and DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) algorithm, thereby problem that the BP neutral network is liable to fall into local optimum in the process of training is solved, and the pattern recognition of ST segment and the diagnosis of coronary heart disease in the manner of artificial experience before are replaced.

The invention discloses an automatic gain-regulated output method for waveform drawing of a multi-channel electrocardiograph, which comprises the following steps: (1) detecting and calculating the voltage amplitude of an electrocardiographic waveform of each channel; (2) determining the magnitude of the automatic gain of the electrocardiographic waveform of each channel based on the magnitude of the voltage amplitude obtained in the step (1); (3) carrying out gain processing on an original signal of the electrocardiographic waveform of each channel based on the magnitude of the automatic gain; and (4) drawing the electrocardiographic waveforms obtained after gain processing on an interface, recording and outputting. The invention simultaneously meets the requirements for both interface displaying and recording and outputting, and can achieve a better balance between the both. When being used for an electrocardiograph with a large number of channels (e.g. 12 channels), the automatic gain-regulated output method provided by the invention can achieve a more obvious optimization effect.

In order to derive a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram, ones of limb leads and chest leads which constitute a lead system for the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram using 10 electrodes are selected. Electrocardiographic waveforms corresponding to the selected ones of the limb leads and the chest leads are obtained, as measured electrocardiographic waveforms, with electrodes attached on a living body. Electrocardiographic waveforms corresponding to a remaining ones of the limb leads and the chest leads are calculated, as non-measured electrocardiographic waveforms, with a prescribed transformation matrix and the measured electrocardiographic waveforms.

The disclosed embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for providing a warning. In one example, an apparatus includes a sensor, which is configured to be coupled to a body of a patient and to output a photoplethysmograph signal, which is indicative of pulse waveforms in the body. The apparatus also includes a processor, which is coupled to process the photoplethysmograph signal so as to identify sequential pulse waveforms in the signal, the processor detecting a cardiac arrhythmia based on identifying a shape feature of the pulse waveform occurring simultaneously with a change in rate or rhythm of the pulse waveforms or an electrocardiographic waveform, and to output a warning responsive to the simultaneous occurrence.

In a portable electrocardiograph, combinations of analysis results corresponding to analysis items of an electrocardiographic waveform based on electrocardiography and display contents are stored in advance in association with each other. Thereby, the portable electrocardiograph analyzes obtained electrocardiographic waveform data to classify the electrocardiographic waveform data by the analysis items based on electrocardiography (S104). It collates a classification result being classified and the combinations of analysis results stored to select a corresponding display content (S108). It displays the selected display content as an evaluation of the electrocardiographic waveform data (S110).

An X-ray CT apparatus detects a predetermined characteristic wave from each electrocardiographic waveform acquired from an electrocardiograph, predicts intervals with which the characteristic wave appears based on appearance times of the detected predetermined characteristic wave in each electrocardiographic waveform, and determines an X-ray irradiation start time based on the predicted interval time. After an instruction to start collection of X-ray intensity distribution data is received, if an appearance interval of a detected predetermined characteristic wave is within an acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as a normal heartbeat. If the appearance interval of the detected predetermined characteristic wave is outside the acceptable normal-heartbeat range, it is determined as an abnormal heartbeat. During a period after receiving the instruction to start the collection until reaching a time of starting the collection of X-ray detection information, when determined as an abnormal heartbeat, an X-ray irradiation start time is recalculated, and then determined.

In a portable electrocardiograph, combinations of analysis results corresponding to analysis items of an electrocardiographic waveform based on electrocardiography and display contents are stored in advance in association with each other. Thereby, the portable electrocardiograph analyzes obtained electrocardiographic waveform data to classify the electrocardiographic waveform data by the analysis items based on electrocardiography. It collates a classification result being classified and the combinations of analysis results stored to select a corresponding display content. It displays the selected display content as an evaluation of the electrocardiographic waveform data.

The present invention provides an ultrasonic diagnosis device, an ultrasonic image analysis device and a method thereof. A motion parameter measuring unit (9) two-dimensionally measures a motion parameter of a myocardial tissue by a tracking process on time-series ultrasonic image data acquired by transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves to and from a sample. On the other hand, a time phase setting unit (8) adds a diastolic heartbeat time phase, which is set on the basis of a systole end specified by a time phase where a cardiac cavity area of the ultrasonic image data is the smallest and a diastole end specified by an R wave in an electrocardiographic waveform of the sample, relative to the systole end to time-series parameter image data generated by a parameter image data generating unit (10) on the basis of the motion parameter. An image data extracting unit (11) extracts parameter image data to which the diastolic heartbeat time phase closest to a desired diastolic heartbeat time phase set by an input unit (13) is added and displays the extracted parameter image data on a display unit (12).

The invention relates to the technical field of image processing, and specifically relates to an electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis method and ECG analysis apparatus. In order to solve the problems of lack of high-quality medical labeling and lack of interpretable auxiliary analysis in the prior art, the invention discloses the ECG analysis method comprising the following steps: obtaining text semantic information vector corresponding to each ECG on basis of a plurality of ECGs acquired in advance through a text semantic information extraction model; obtaining ECG waveform vector corresponding to each ECG on basis of the plurality of ECGs through an ECG waveform vector extraction model; obtaining a first ECG analysis result according to the text semantic information vectors, the ECG waveformvectors and a first event set acquired in advance; obtaining a second ECG analysis result according to the text semantic information vectors and the ECG waveform vectors; and then, obtaining ECG event corresponding to each ECG according to the first ECG analysis result and the second ECG analysis result. The ECG analysis method disclosed by the invention is capable of directly interpreting ECGs in PDF format.

A transmitting / receiving circuit drives an ultrasonic probe in accordance with a trigger signal based on an electrocardiographic waveform under the control of a control device so as to scan a plurality of regions, and obtains scan data for each region. During the scanning, the transmitting / receiving circuit causes the ultrasonic probe to scan the respective regions so that scan data in which time phases of the electrocardiographic waveform substantially coincide are obtained in the vicinities of the boundary between at least two adjacent regions among the plurality of regions. That is, in adjacent regions, the transmitting / receiving circuit causes the ultrasonic probe to scan the respective regions in the main or sub-scanning directions set to be reverse to each other. Further, an image processor generates ultrasonic image data of the range in which the plurality of regions are joined, on the basis of the scan data obtained by starting scanning at the same time phase.

A transmitting / receiving circuit drives an ultrasonic probe in accordance with a trigger signal based on an electrocardiographic waveform under the control of a control device so as to scan a plurality of regions, and obtains scan data for each region. During the scanning, the circuit causes the probe to scan the respective regions so that scan data in which time phases of the electrocardiographic waveform substantially coincide are obtained in the vicinities of the boundary between at least two adjacent regions among the regions. That is, in adjacent regions, the circuit causes the probe to scan the respective regions in the main or sub-scanning directions set to be reverse to each other. Further, an image processor generates ultrasonic image data of the range in which the regions are joined, on the basis of the scan data obtained by starting scanning at the same time phase.

An electrocardiograph and an electrocardiograph control method capable of recording the electrocardiographic waveform under satisfactory measurement conditions with a simple operation are disclosed. In the case where a measurement switch is depressed (MEASUREMENT SW in S10) in sleep mode, a CPU starts the main power supply and sets the electrocardiograph in active mode and performs the initial operation for starting to control the various parts (S20). Further, the electrocardiograph selects a measurement program for executing the measurement function thereof, and the process before step S60 is skipped to branch to the measurement process.

The invention discloses a coronary heart disease self-diagnosis system with electrocardiographic monitoring and self-adaptive fuzzy reasoning network, which comprises an electrocardiogram acquisition terminal and a hospital monitoring center computer system. The electrocardiogram acquisition terminal is composed of an electrocardiographic monitoring and acquiring instrument and a data transmission module based on wired or wireless data transmission. Based on multi-dimension feature of wavelet transformation, the system of the invention completes the extraction for crest value points and the detection for ST segment in different dimensional decomposition coefficients by using quadratic spline wavelet transformation, thus electrocardiographic waveform of clinical patients can be accurately extracted. Based upon corrective extraction of characteristic points, six electrocardiogram ST segment morphologic models constructed by using self-adaptive fuzzy reasoning network training method succeed in ST segment morphologic recognition and replace the former human experience way for ST segment morphologic recognition and diagnosis of coronary heart disease.

A portable electrocardiograph having a display function and method is disclosed. In measuring an electrocardiographic waveform, an electrocardiograph (1) is held in position by a grip including a negative electrode (14) while simultaneously pressing a contact section including a positive electrode (16) against an electrode contact portion other than the right hand of the subject. The measurement result is displayed on a display unit (10) during the measurement operation. The measurement method is divided into the induction mode I in which the contact section including the positive electrode (16) is pressed against the subject's left hand, and the induction mode II in which the contact section including the positive electrode (16) is pressed against the subject's lower left abdomen. In induction mode I, the measurement result is displayed horizontally on the display (10), while in the measurement in mode II, the measurement result is displayed vertically.