Multimodal Data Fusion Relay for Timely Home Cardiac Monitoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current home detection methods for cardiovascular disease are discrete and one-sided, failing to provide comprehensive and timely updates on patient conditions.

Innovation Solution

A multimodal heterogeneous data fusion relay apparatus that integrates a data obtaining module, data fusion module, and relay transmission module to collect, process, and transmit patient data including body indicators, living environment data, and home treatment data, using various coding algorithms for efficient data fusion and transmission.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If multiple types of patient data are collected comprehensively, then the comprehensiveness of home detection information is improved, but the device complexity and data processing burden increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensiveness of patient informationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the home detection system into three independent modules: data obtaining module (collecting from multiple sources), data fusion module (processing and integrating), and relay transmission module (sending to remote terminal). Each module handles specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive data collection capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The data fusion module serves as an intermediary between data collection and transmission. It performs integration classification, periodical updates, and compression coding on multimodal heterogeneous data, simplifying the data before transmission and reducing the burden on both collection and transmission stages

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of time

If real-time patient monitoring is implemented, then the timeliness of health information is improved, but the energy consumption and data transmission load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetimeliness of health informationVSAvoidenergy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The data fusion module performs periodical updates on collected data, comparing current data with previous data and only transmitting when changes are detected. This periodic monitoring approach ensures timely health information while reducing unnecessary continuous transmission and lowering energy consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of data transmission from continuous to event-driven based on data changes. The compression coding unit encodes data packets only when parameter changes are detected, reducing transmission load and energy consumption while maintaining real-time monitoring capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If multimodal heterogeneous data is processed and integrated, then the accuracy of patient condition assessment is improved, but the data processing time and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of patient condition assessmentVSAvoiddata processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The data fusion module performs preliminary integration classification and compression coding on data before transmission. By preprocessing and organizing multimodal heterogeneous data in advance, the system improves assessment accuracy while reducing the computational burden during actual analysis and transmission phases

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12495966B2Multimodal heterogeneous data fusion relay apparatus for home detection of cardiovascular disease
Publication Date: 2025.12.16 PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE
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AI summary

Provided is a multimodal heterogeneous data fusion relay apparatus for home detection of cardiovascular disease, which relates to the field of home detection. The apparatus includes a data obtaining module, a data fusion module, and a relay transmission module. The data obtaining module is configured to obtain patient's body indicator data, patient's living environment data, and patient's home treatment data; the data fusion module is configured to: separately perform periodical update, integration classification, and data compression on the patient's body indicator data, the patient's living environment data, and the patient's home treatment data, and then perform concatenation reassembly to obtain a data packet of home detection of cardiovascular disease; and the relay transmission module is configured to send the data packet of home detection of cardiovascular disease to a remote terminal. The apparatus can obtain more comprehensive patient's home detection information in time.