Patent Abstract:
disclosed is a system and a method for computer - supported analysis of arrhythmic potentials in ecg signals , particularly those of late potentials . interference discrimination advantages of frequency domain analysis are combined with temporal localization advantages of time domain analysis to determine the accurate location of arrhythmic potentials . several small signal segments are selected in an ecg waveform . a determination is made of parameters corresponding to extended signals which closely match fluctuations of each respective small signal , allowing more information is discerned about the small signals than is possible with more conventional techniques . a comparison is made with respect to extended signals rather than small signals . two autoregressive models are used , the maximum entropy method and adaptive filter determination . area integrals of the frequency characteristics of small signal segments are recorded successively with respect to the frequency range of the arrhythmic potentials analyzed . the area integrals for first segments are calculated , then the remaining area integrals are calculated to determine the spectral manifestation of the selected signal region . a normality factor is determined as quotient of the summed area integrals of the first and second number of time segments analyzed .

Detailed Description:
referring now to the drawing and initially to fig1 a system for analyzing selected signal components in electrocardiographic signals is generally indicated at 10 . orthogonal electrocardiograms are derived from three bipolar pairs of electrodes x , y , z 11 , connected to human chest 13 . an impedance transformer 12 in the immediate vicinity of the electrode pairs minimizes the radiation interference from the environment . in a main amplifier 14 , the ecg signals are amplified to ± 10 v . incremental amplifier 16 dc - shift signals allowing full utilization of the input range of an a / d converter 20 (± 10 v ). the anti - aliasing filter 18 attenuates signal components over 300 hz prior to sampling . in the tested illustrative embodiment of the invention , the a / d converter 20 operates with a 12 - bit resolution and sampling rate of 1000 hz . the simultaneously recorded ecg signals are stored on a hard disk and processed in the computer 22 . during the development work and numerous tests , an industrial 32 - bit computer by hewlett packard , series 9000 with a clock rate of 16 mhz was very successful . the stored data are analyzed and evaluated as follows : ecg signals are presented ( fig2 step 202 ) as 16 - bit integer values for a range of ± 2 12 (± 2048 ). the signals are first computed with the gain factor and preferably specified as real numbers ( fig2 step 204 ) in miclivolts . the beginning and end of the qrs complex are calculated by autocorrelation . for this purpose , the spatial vector speed ( fig2 step 206 ) of the ecg is first calculated with the aid of the formula ## equ1 ## where v ( n ) designated the spatial vector speed , x , y , z the signals supplied by the electrode pairs x , y , z . after a coarse estimation of the end of qrs , for example by the point at which the vector speed drops below 20 mv / s , a qrs signal segment of , for example , 80 ms duration in time , beginning at a point &# 34 ; estimated end of qrs minus 20 ms &# 34 ; passes through the mathematical algorithm of the autocorrelation via convolution . the result is a time series . the time of the maximum of convolution defines the final end of qrs as reference point for the further analysis . the same procedure is used for determining the beginning of qrs . a particular number of time segments , for example 38 segments is now defined within the st part . as can be seen in fig3 and fig4 a , the first segment begins , for example , 44 ms after the end of the qrs complex ; the next ones each begin 2 ms earlier in the cardiac cycle . the 38th segment thus begins 30 ms within the qrs complex . for mem analysis ( fig2 step 208 ), the segment length is , for example , 40 ms whilst even shorter segment lengths of , for example , 25 ms are sufficient in adaptive filter determination using the afd method ( fig2 step 210 ). the power spectrum is calculated for each of these segments . the calculation and analysis method effected in the facility according to the invention is called &# 34 ; spectrotemporal mapping &# 34 ; ( fig2 step 212 ) by the inventors and will be introduced as such as a technical term . in the text which follows , the two mathematical methods used for the technical solution of the problem demonstrated will be briefly described . calculation of the spectral power density of a time series via the calculation of an autoregressive model ( ar model ) of a particular order is based on the method described by burg ( 1978 , lit . 4 ). the prediction error function is reduced by minimizing the sum of the squared forward and backward errors . at the same time , the so - called levinson - durbin algorithm must be satisfied in the recursive calculation of the parameters . the spectrum of the mem can be represented in a closed form by the equation ## equ2 ## where σ 2 : spectral power density of the white noise ; δt : sampling rate a ( m , m ): coefficients of the prediction error filter with length m and a ( m , l ) = 1 . the forward - and backward - directed prediction errors ( errors of the covariance function ) of a time series x ( n ) of length n with respect to time n are given by v ( m , n ) and r ( m , n ), m representing the current order of the recursion over the ar parameters . the following holds true : ## equ3 ## a ( m , 1 ) = 1 , n = 1 , . . . n , m = 1 , . . . , m v ( m , n ), r ( m , n ) are non - correlated signal sequences ( white noise ) with the expected value zero and the variance σ 2 which can be interpreted as root - mean - square error of prediction . both errors are calculated via the same coefficients ; however , the signal proceeds in opposite directions . this will be briefly explained in the text following : the available data x ( n ) are the output or the response word size , respectively , of the unknown linear system s ( z ), a filter , with z = exp [ 2 · π · i · f ], where f = frequency . the signal x ( n ) to be recorded is generated from incoming white noise via this unknown filter s ( z ). the spectrum of x ( n ) corresponds to the squared filter frequency response and the following holds true : if the function x ( n ) can be formed by the filter s ( z ) from white noise , it must be possible to generate white noise again from the function x ( n ) by the filter s n ( z ), with n = 1 , which is the inverse of s ( z ). the function s ( z ) with ## equ4 ## is called an all - pole transfer function . the function which is the inverse of this is s n ( z ), n = 1 , with ## equ5 ## which is called the fir or all - zero transfer function . the coefficients a ( m , m ) are then determined in such a manner that the power of the white noise is minimized at the output when the signal x ( n ) passes via the inverse filter . this happens by the data or , respectively , the error function in the further recursion , being sent forward and backward through the filter and their respective energies , that is to say the sum of the forward and backward errors , v ( m , n ) and r ( m , n ) being reduced . the algorithm used in accordance with the invention here utilizes the property of linear filter systems that a filter which is applied both to the forward - and to the backward - directed signal supplies the same result . the power of forward and backward error function corresponds to the power of the white noise . for calculating the ar parameters , the sum of the energies of the forward - and backward - directed error function is minimized in accordance with the equation ## equ6 ## with the condition that the ar parameters satisfy the levenson / durbin recursion for all orders from 1 to m - 1 . this requirement is used for generating a stable ar filter ( poles inside the unity circle ). minimization is achieved by the derivation of the error terms with respect to a ( m , m ) being set to zero . from this follows as expression for the reflection coefficient a ( m , m ) of the m - th order : ## equ7 ## the energy of the total error or the variance , respectively , or the dynamic range of the error signal follows as : the diagrammatic sequence of the mem algorithm according to burg can be represented in summary in the following steps : incrementing the order and new pass , beginning with the calculation of the reflection coefficient , then an essential point to be considered when using the mem for the frequency analysis of the ecg is the choice of the correct order of the autoregressive model , which is represented by the number of ar parameters or of the prediction filter coefficients , respectively . during the development work , it was found that if too low an order was selected , the spectrum is smoothed by a very great amount and the frequency resolution is reduced . choosing too high an order , in contrast , leads to additional components in the spectrum which do not exist in the original signal . known selection methods for determining an optimum order did not bring any fully satisfactory results since none of the known methods met all requirements with respect to spectral resolution , required segment length , tolerable computing time and so forth . as a very advantageous extension and improvement of the concept of the invention , a procedure was developed in which an optimum determination of the order as termination criterion for the recursion was achieved . according to this extension of the invention , the termination criterion is determined from the combination of three different selection criteria in which , as a rule , the model order is stipulated to be relatively high . the degree of the recursion is established by the criterion which is the first one to satisfy the termination condition . the termination condition fpe final prediction error criterion ) for the first one of these three criteria is : m designates the model order ; n is n = 1 , . . . , n ; n designates the number of data . accordingly , the value of a new error criterion for an arbitrary value m must be smaller than its predecessor . the next criterion for a recursion termination is the condition for a stable filter : the end of the recursion is reached when the calculated filter coefficient becomes greater than 1 , that is to say : possible numeric inaccuracies which can lead to errors are avoided in this way . if termination is not produced by any of these two criteria , the recursion is stopped after a predetermined upper limit for the number of coefficients of the protection error filter has been reached . this upper limit is calculated in dependence on the number of data within a predetermined data segment ; it is determined , for example , at a third of the number of the data set of the root of the current segment length . for the latest termination of the recursion it thus follows that : ## equ9 ## if too high an order is selected in the determination of the said coefficients in mem for the analysis of the ecg , this can lead to the occurrence of line splitting and frequency shifting . line splitting is understood to be the splitting of a frequency peak into two or more peaks which are located around the actual frequency . the frequency shifting , that is to say the deviation of a frequency from its original value can be up to 16 % of the so - called frequency resolution cell considered in each case . both phenomena can also be dependent on the starting point , that is to say on the phase relationship and the shape of the curve of the segments considered in each case . according to a further advantageous extension of the invention , both problems can be largely eliminated by applying a taper function ( fig2 step 208 ) the calculation of the filter coefficients according to equation ( 6 ). it has been found surprisingly that when the relation of the equation for the filter coefficients ( equation ( 6 )) is extended by the taper function in the numerator and the denominator , line splitting and frequency shifts no longer occurred even for higher values of the model order m . above all , those previously observed interfering impairments of the ecg analysis are eliminated in accordance with the invention which are based on the fact that low - frequency fundamental oscillations , primarily caused by the fundamental oscillation of the s spike of the qrs complex or of the ascending st part , respectively , cause low - frequency components in the spectra which can have an effect far into the frequency range f & gt ; 40 hz , in which late potentials occur . an obvious solution would be a high - pass filtering of the output data ; however , as mentioned above , this causes certain disadvantages , particularly signal distortions . the disadvantages of conventional filtering have been overcome by means of the invention and the fundamental oscillation mentioned is eliminated in accordance with the following method : the fundamental oscillation , together with a corresponding noise background , is detected at a very low model order number , for example 1 , 2 or 3 by the above - mentioned signal analysis . subsequently , the same section is examined with the optimum order for which the recursion termination criterion is satisfied . a subtraction ( fig2 step 208 and step 210 , and fig9 ) of the spectrum with the lower model order from the spectrum having the optimum model order on the plane of the calculation of the filter coefficients finally supplies a spectrum having a very low noise level at which the fundamental oscillation is virtually completed reduced . when the two said improvements of the concept of the invention are simultaneously applied to the calculation of the difference spectra , namely during the calculation of the filter coefficients with optimum model order and in application of the convergence function modification , power spectra can be obtained which produce a much better information content in comparison with conventional methods with fourier analysis . another method for determining the ecg power spectrum , which can be alternatively applied within the context of the invention , uses in advantageous development of the invention an algorithm which is based on the method which has become known as the &# 34 ; fast adaptive forward - backward least squares &# 34 ; method -- an autoregressive method which was presented by n . kaloupsidis and s . theodoridis for the first time in 1987 ( reference 6 , appendix 1 ). this method can also be called &# 34 ; adaptive filter determination &# 34 ; ( afd ) ( fig2 step 210 ) in the form modified in accordance with the invention . the concept of this method is based on the step - by - step adaptation of the filter parameters to the input function with simultaneous minimization of the energies of the forward and backward prediction errors . in contrast to the maximum entropy method ( mem ) described above , the input signal is modelled step - by - step from data point to data point with a predetermined number of filter coefficients ( fixed model order m ). analogously to equation ( 1 ) in mem , the power density spectrum of the afd method is given by : ## equ10 ## where σ 2 : spectral power density of the white noise ; the forward - and backward - directed prediction errors of a time series x ( n ) of length n at time n are given , similar to the explanation above , by v ( m , n ) and r ( m , n ), m again representing the number of filter parameters or the magnitude of the model order , respectively . the following are also true : ## equ11 ## v ( m , n ), r ( m , n ) are non - correlated signal sequences ( white noise ) having the expected value of zero and the variance σ 2 which can again be interpreted as root - mean - square prediction error . the filter j · a ( m , m ) is called a forward predictor , with j as so - called exchange matrix which is defined as : ## equ12 ## minimization of the sum of the energies of the forward - and backward - directed error function or filter function provides : ## equ13 ## the afd algorithm makes no assumption about the signal outside the data range considered or available . the energies of forward and backward prediction errors are simultaneously minimized . a great advantage of the afd algorithm is its independence of the start phase of the signal so that line splitting cannot be observed . a high frequency resolution with no significant observed frequency shift even in very short data segments is obtained as a further advantage . to achieve optimum results within the context of the invention , the correct choice of the number of filter parameters used , that is to say the determination of the optimum order , is also of importance in applying the afd algorithm . this determination is dependent on the available data and can only be determined with difficulty in advance . in spite of the known afd algorithm , methods for determining the optimum order are not known . if too low an order is selected , the spectrum is smoothed too much and can mean a reduction in frequency resolution . choosing too high an order , on the other hand , leads to additional components in the spectrum which are not present in the original signal . the following selection criterion for determining the optimum order has been particularly successful as an advantageous extension of the concept of the invention : the algorithm is started with a fixed upper limit (= number of points in a signal section or segment ), but a maximum of 50 . after each recursion step , it is checked whether the respective last filter errors ( forward / backward output ) satisfy a particular condition , that is to say are located within a predetermined range . if the errors are outside this range , the recursion is terminated ; the current running index of the recursion is stored . using this current running index , the recursion is subsequently restarted and the filter coefficients are calculated . to check the efficiency and the validity of the order found in each case , a method for assessing the stability of the filter now present , determined by the filter coefficients , is used this checking method is known and has been described in detail by b . friedlander ( reference 5 , appendix 1 ). a second possibility for determining an optimum order is given by means of a criterion which has already been described above in conjunction with mem , according to which m & gt ; 3 √ n is established as upper barrier for an end of the recursion . the difference spectra are calculated on the basis of similar considerations as has already been described above under mem . the results obtained show that the use of even shorter segments is possible with the afd method , for example segment lengths of only 25 ms , which considerably improves the locating of late potentials in the st part . a further advantage of the afd method lies in the fact that artificial frequency hills occur less frequently and the method is therefore even more specific than mem in many cases of application as is shown by the information below . as can be seen from the representations in fig4 to 7 , the power spectra are graphically plotted in a three - dimensional representation , in which the angle of representation can be arbitrarily selected . in fig4 a - 4c and 5a - 5c , respectively , one pathological and one normal example each is shown for mem and afd . the first patient ( fig4 a - 4c ) suffered from a myocardial infarction with subsequent sustained ventricular tachycardia in the case history . the second patient ( fig5 a - 5c ) also suffered a myocardial infarction but there were no indications of a sustained ventricular disturbance of the rhythm . in both cases of fig4 a - 4c and 5a - 5c , a frequency peak is apparent at low frequency ( approximately 15 hz ) which passes through all segments 1 to 38 ( afd ) and 1 to 30 ( mem ), respectively , and corresponds to the low - frequency fundamental oscillation of the st part , and can be seen both in the adaptive frequency determination ( fig4 b , fig5 b afd in each case ) and with the maximum entropy method ( fig4 c , fig5 c , mem in each case ). this frequency peak does not interfere with the analysis due to the formation of the difference of the spectra with high and low model order m . in the region above 50 hz , higher - frequency components occur in the patient according to fig4 a - 4c which are mainly located in segments at the end of qrs ( fig4 c ), that is to say in segments 19 to 27 ( fig4 b , afd ), and in segments 12 to approximately 23 ( fig4 c , mem ) but are missing segments far outside the qrs complex , that is to say in segments 1 to 18 ( afd ) or 1 to 13 ( mem ), respectively . this is a characteristic finding for late potentials which can be seen even more clearly in fig4 b ( afd ). the spectral diagram to the right of afd clearly shows the summed - together power distribution with a conspicuous power peak in the frequency domain of the late potentials . the normality factor which will be explained in greater detail below , is pathological . the spectra with frequency hills ( of corresponding late potentials ) can be unambiguously separated and located even more clearly in afd due to the short segment length in the case of afd . this provides the possibility of a precise conclusion with respect to the location of the late potentials in the time domain representation ( fig4 a and 5a ). the high - frequency components in the segments at the end of qrs are lacking in patients without ventricular tachycardia according to fig5 a , 5b , 5c ; there is thus no indication of the presence of late potentials . in distinction from fig4 a - 4c and 5a - 5c , fig6 a - 6c shows the analysis of an ecg with the facility according to the invention when interfering influences are present . these also lead to high - frequency components which , however , are present more or less uniformly in all segments . however , these interfering influences drop out in the determination of the normality factor explained in the text which follows . the calculation of the normality factor ( fig2 step 214 ) is based on the concept that late potentials are only present in segments around the end of qrs but do not occur in segments far outside the qrs complex . in contrast , interfering influences , essentially caused by electrode noise , muscular tremors and mains interference should occur more or less uniformly in all aspects ( fig6 a - 6c ). it is known from earlier investigations with fourier transform ( reference 3 , appendix 1 ) that late potentials are primarily only represented in the frequency range from 40 hz to 200 hz . using the facility according to the invention , it is first checked in a first step whether frequency peaks with an amplitude of greater than 6 db occur in the spectra of particular segments , particularly of segments 14 to 30 , in the frequency range from 40 to 160 hz . if this is not so , this finding is not compatible with late potentials ; the normality factor is 100 %. if , however , corresponding peaks occur , the next step follows . in step two , the computer checks whether a relevant frequency peak found in the first step only occurs in the selected segments ( for example 14 to 30 ) or whether such a peak appears in the spectra of all segments within a frequency bank of ± 10 hz of the corresponding frequency . if this is so , the spectral representation of an interference signal and not of late potentials must be assumed . the program sequence now returns to step 1 and it is checked whether a further relevant frequency peak is present . if , however , a relevant frequency peak is only located in the segments around the end of qrs and does not exist far outside the qrs complex , the third step now follows . in the third step , the spectral manifestation of the late potentials is detected . for this purpose , the integral of the area under the frequency curve ( compare fig4 b , 4c to 6b , 6c ) is calculated in the range from 40 to 160 hz in the spectra of the previously selected segments , that is to say , particularly , of segments 14 to 30 , on the one hand , and in the remaining spectra , that is to say , in particular , spectra 1 to 13 , on the other hand . the normality factor nf ( fig2 step 214 ) is defined as a quotient , namely ## equ14 ## with a normality factor nf & lt ; 30 %, significant late potentials must be assumed . to located the late potentials precisely , the area integral is plotted as a function of all segment numbers , for example of segments 1 to 38 , in the range from 40 to 160 hz ( fig4 b and 6b ). the start of late potentials is determined as the segment in which the area integral exceeds a particular value . accordingly , the end of the late potentials is determined as the segment the spectral area of which drops below this limit value . the expert requires no further explanation for the three diagrams of fig7 a - 7c which were recorded in familiar manner , but with analog segment - by - segment observation , for comparison with the fourier analysis of the st part . fig7 a , which was recorded for the same patient with late potentials as in fig4 a , clearly shows how much more inaccurate is the possibility of locating late potentials . fig7 b would have to be compared with the representation of fig5 b and fig7 c with the diagram of fig6 c . the present invention can be implemented in a number of different ways , using varying combinations of software and hardware systems . in its essence , the invention contemplates constructing signal generators that generate extended representations of waveform segments too short to be successfully subjected to fourier transformation . the extended representations preserve the statistics of the short waveform segments , but may be readily analyzed for frequency content without the necessity of windowing or high - pass filtering . referring to fig8 the invention proceeds as follows : the segments of an averaged ecg waveform 802 are selected one - at - a - time by a waveform segment selector 804 which presents an individual waveform segment 806 to a comparator 808 . simultaneously , a filter 810 transforms white noise 812 into an extended waveform 814 which is also presented to the comparator 808 . the comparator 808 , using the techniques taught above , either directly or indirectly measures the discrepancy between the two incoming signals or waveforms 806 and 814 and causes a parameter adjuster 816 to adjust filter parameters al , a2 , ... , an 818 , and also the number of filter parameters , within the filter 810 to minimize the statistical error detected by the comparator 808 . the filter 810 is an autoregressive filter in which the output signal extended waveform 814 is fed back through multiple time delays 820 , modified by the parameters 818 , and summed with the incoming white noise 812 in a summer 822 to give the extended waveform 814 which is the filter 810 output signal . after several iterations of parameter adjustment , as described above , a reasonably good average match between the extended waveform 814 and the waveform segment 806 is achieved . then the final step in the process may commence . the goal is to derive a frequency domain representation of the waveform segment 806 . unfortunately , the waveform segment 806 is too short in time duration to be transformed by the fft algorithm . if the waveform segment 806 were transformed directly by an fft transformation , the brevity of the segment would cause the frequency domain representation to be blurred in the frequency direction -- smeared or defocused . this problem can be minimized by windowing , but windowing causes information towards the start and end of the segment to be lost , leaving less meaningful information for display and more noise . the segment could be extended in time duration , but then the frequency domain representation would be blurred in the time direction , and it would be difficult to resolve the precise time when a high frequency event occurred -- it would appear in the spectrum of many adjoining segments . to alleviate the above problems , the present invention as configured here provides two different ways to derive the desired frequency representation . both fft 826 , which takes its input from extended waveform 814 and frequency domain transformation 824 , which accepts filter parameters from parameter adjuster 816 produce a frequency domain representation 823 at their respective outputs . the present invention in its preferred embodiment teaches the latter approach , but the former approach also yields a frequency domain representation which describes the waveform segment . referring to fig9 an alternative embodiment of the invention proceeds as follows : the segments of an averaged ecg waveform 802 are selected one - at - a - time by the waveform segment selector 804 which presents the individual waveform segment 806 to the comparator 808 and to a second comparator 808 &# 39 ;. the filter 810 , here referred to as a high order filter , transforms the white noise 812 into the extended waveform 814 which is also presented to the comparator 808 . simultaneously , a new low order filter 810 &# 39 ; transforms white noise 812 into an extended fundamental waveform 814 &# 39 ; which is presented to the second comparator 808 &# 39 ;. the comparator 808 and the comparator 808 &# 39 ;, each using the techniques taught above , measure the discrepancy between their respective incoming signal pairs ( 806 compared with 814 and 814 &# 39 ;), thereby causing the parameter adjuster 816 and a second parameter adjuster 816 &# 39 ; to each present high order filter parameters 830 and low order filter parameters 830 &# 39 ; to the high order filter 810 and the low order filter 810 &# 39 ;, respectively . here the goal is to derive a frequency domain representation of the waveform segment 806 which is a difference frequency domain representation of the detail fluctuations , rather than the fundamental fluctuations , of the extended waveform . as taught above , an iterative process begins which ultimately results in extended waveforms which , on the average , match the selected waveform segment . while this is clearly the case for high order filter 810 , the resulting extended waveform produced by low order filter 810 &# 39 ; matches only the fundamental fluctuations of waveform segment 806 . this is accomplished by limiting the number of filter parameters in the low order filter 810 &# 39 ; to a low number such as three or less . hence the name , low order filter . as taught above , the frequency domain transformation 824 and the frequency domain transformation 824 &# 39 ; each operate on filter parameters 830 and 830 &# 39 ; to derive the frequency domain representation of extended waveform 832 and the frequency domain representation of extended fundamental waveform 834 . representations 832 and 834 are presented to summer 836 which subtracts them and presents , at its output , the desired difference frequency domain representation of detail fluctuations of extended waveform 838 . representation 838 can then be utilized as a description of the detail characteristics of the waveform segment 806 with interfering fundamental fluctuations and fundamental noise attenuated . this provides better discrimination between the diagnostically significant information contained in a waveform segment and other information . while the configurations of the present invention illustrated by fig8 and fig9 can implemented in software , it should be realized and appreciated that the configurations can also be realized in a partially or completely hardware implementation as well . 1 . simson mb ., use of signals in the termal qrs - complex to identify patients with ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction . circulation 1981 ; 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