Instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation device, method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11510605-B2
Application number	US-201917056269-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2019
Priority date	May 24, 2018
Publication date	Nov 29, 2022
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022

Abstract

An instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus includes: extraction means which extracts waveforms having a maximum value corresponding to depolarization of a heart in a biosignal of an examinee; first calculation means which calculates an interval between two waveforms neighboring in a time series; dividing means which divides a signal output from measurement means into signals of predetermined periods; second calculation means which calculates feature quantities of a potential of each divided signal; first evaluation means which evaluates whether a measurement state of each divided signal is normal or abnormal on the basis of feature quantities; and second evaluation means which evaluates measurement states of two neighboring extracted waveforms on the basis of an evaluation result obtained by the first evaluation means and evaluates reliability of a measurement state of the interval between the waveforms depending on a type of the evaluated measurement states of the waveforms.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus comprising:
extraction means which extracts waveforms having a maximum value corresponding to depolarization of a heart in a biosignal of an examinee on a basis of a signal output from measurement means for measuring the biosignal of the examinee;
first calculation means which calculates an interval between two of the waveforms neighboring in a time series and extracted by the extraction means;
dividing means which divides a signal output from the measurement means into signals of predetermined periods;
second calculation means which calculates feature quantities of a potential of each signal divided by the dividing means, wherein the feature quantities comprise: at least one of
a first feature quantity representing a magnitude of a potential of each of the divided signals for the signals divided by the dividing means,
a second feature quantity representing variation in the potential of each of the divided signals for the signals divided by the dividing means, and
a third feature quantity representing change in a time series in the potential of each of the divided signals for the signals divided by the dividing means;

first evaluation means which evaluates, on the basis of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal of an evaluation target that is one of the signals divided by the dividing means, and the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to another signal belonging to a set of signals successive in a time series including the signal of the evaluation target, whether a measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be normal or likely to be abnormal for each of types of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means, and evaluates whether a measurement state of each signal divided by the dividing means is normal or abnormal on a basis of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means; and
second evaluation means which evaluates measurement states of the two neighboring waveforms extracted by the extraction means on a basis of an evaluation result obtained by the first evaluation means and evaluates reliability of a measurement state of the interval between the waveforms calculated by the first calculation means depending on a type of the evaluated measurement states of the waveforms.

2. The instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first evaluation means evaluates, on the basis of feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal of an evaluation target that is one of the signals divided by the dividing means, and feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal neighboring the signal of the evaluation target in a time series, whether a measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be normal or likely to be abnormal for each of types of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means, and evaluates whether measurement states of the signals divided by the dividing means are normal or abnormal on the basis of an evaluation result for each feature quantity type.

3. The instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the first evaluation means evaluates, on the basis of feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal of an evaluation target that is one of the signals divided by the dividing means, and feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal for which a measurement state has been evaluated as normal in advance among the signals divided by the dividing means, whether a measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be normal or likely to be abnormal for each of types of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means, and evaluates whether measurement states of the signals divided by the dividing means are normal or abnormal on the basis of an evaluation result for each feature quantity type.

4. The instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first evaluation means
acquires, on the basis of feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal of an evaluation target that is one of the signals divided by the dividing means, and feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to another signal belonging to a set of signals successive in a time series including the signal of the evaluation target, a first evaluation result representing whether a measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be normal or likely to be abnormal for each of types of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means,
acquires a second evaluation result representing whether a measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be normal or likely to be abnormal for each of types of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means on the basis of feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to the signal of the evaluation target that is one of the signals divided by the dividing means, and feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal neighboring the signal of the evaluation target in a time series,
acquires a third evaluation result representing whether a measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be normal or likely to be abnormal for each of types of the feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means on the basis of feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to the signal of the evaluation target, and feature quantities calculated by the second calculation means with respect to a signal for which a measurement state has been evaluated as normal in advance, and
evaluates the measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target as abnormal when at least one of the first, second and third evaluation results represents that the measurement state of the signal of the evaluation target is likely to be abnormal.

5. The instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second evaluation means evaluates the measurement states of the waveforms extracted by the extraction means as abnormal from a signal for which a measurement state has been evaluated as abnormal by the first evaluation means, and evaluates the measurement states of the waveforms extracted by the extraction means as normal from a signal for which a measurement state has been evaluated as normal by the first evaluation means.

6. An instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation method performed by an instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus, comprising:
extracting waveforms having a maximum value corresponding to depolarization of a heart in a biosignal of an examinee;
calculating an interval between two of the extracted waveforms neighboring in a time series;
dividing the biosignal into signals of predetermined periods;
calculating feature quantities of a potential of each of the divided signals, wherein the feature quantities comprise: at least one of
a first feature quantity representing a magnitude of a potential of each of the divided signals,
a second feature quantity representing variation in the potential of each of the divided signals, and
a third feature quantity representing change in a time series in the potential of each of the divided signals;

evaluating, on the basis of the calculated feature quantitie

Assignees

• Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Inventors

• Eguchi Kana
• Aoki Ryosuke
• Yoshida Kazuhiro
• Yamada Tomohiro

Classifications

• A61B5/352 Primary

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• A61B5/0245

  by using sensing means generating electric signals, {i.e. ECG signals} · CPC title

• A61B5/7217 Primary

  of noise originating from a therapeutic or surgical apparatus, e.g. from a pacemaker · CPC title

• A61B5/333

  Recording apparatus specially adapted therefor · CPC title