Cardiovascular Data Quality Assessment Using Motion and Contact Models

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for determining cardiovascular parameters face challenges in ensuring data quality and accuracy, particularly in real-time applications, due to issues like motion artifacts and inconsistent sensor contact, which can lead to unreliable outputs.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a combination of motion, body region contact, and placement models to assess data quality in real-time, using image attributes like luminance and chroma to classify data segments as high or low quality, ensuring only high-quality data is used for cardiovascular parameter determination, and leveraging machine learning for efficient processing on user devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If real-time data processing is implemented for cardiovascular parameter determination, then productivity is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to motion artifacts and inconsistent sensor contact

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time processing speedVSAvoiddata quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by assessing data quality metrics (motion artifacts, sensor contact consistency, placement accuracy) before cardiovascular parameter determination. This pre-assessment filters out low-quality data segments, ensuring that only high-quality data proceeds to parameter calculation, thereby maintaining measurement precision while enabling real-time processing of validated data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring data quality metrics and using this information to adjust processing in real-time. Quality assessments feed back into the parameter determination process, allowing the system to dynamically adapt to varying data conditions and maintain accuracy despite real-time processing constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If comprehensive data quality assessment using multiple models is performed, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata quality assessmentVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the data quality assessment into distinct functional models: motion artifact detection, sensor contact consistency evaluation, and placement accuracy assessment. Each model independently evaluates specific quality aspects, and their results are integrated to form a comprehensive quality determination. This segmentation improves reliability through specialized assessment while managing complexity by organizing functions into modular components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs universal data quality metrics that can assess multiple aspects of data quality (motion, contact, placement) through a unified framework. These multi-functional quality indicators enable comprehensive reliability assessment without requiring entirely separate systems for each quality dimension, thereby improving reliability while controlling device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240055125A1System and method for determining data quality for cardiovascular parameter determination
Publication Date: 2024.02.15 RIVA HEALTH INC
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AI summary

The system for cardiovascular parameter data quality determination can include a user device and a computing system, wherein the user device can include one or more sensors, the computing system, and/or any suitable components. The computing system can optionally include a data quality module, a cardiovascular parameter module, a storage module, and/or any suitable modules. The method for cardiovascular parameter data quality determination can include acquiring data and determining a quality of the data. The method can optionally include processing the data, and/or determining a cardiovascular parameter, training a data quality module, any suitable steps.