168 results about "Fetal Heart Rate Variability" patented technology

Method and apparatus for determining the state of entrainment between biological systems which exhibit oscillatory behavior such as heart rhythms, respiration, blood pressure waves and low frequency brain waves based on a determination of heart rate variability (HRV) and an evaluation of the power spectrum thereof. Entrainment reflects a harmonious balance between the two branches of the autonomic nervous system within the body. This internal state of heightened physiological efficiency enhances health and promotes optimal performance. According to one embodiment a method is used to determine the entrainment level based on an entrainment parameter related to HRV. The method first determines the power distribution spectrum (PSD) and then calculates an entrainment parameter (EP), which is a measure of the power distribution in the HRV spectrum. High EP values occur when this power is concentrated within a relatively narrow range of frequencies, and lower values when the power is distributed over a broader range of frequencies. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided for monitoring the heart beat and presenting this information via a personal computer, handheld device, or other processing means.

The present invention describes a method of tracking minute ventilation from R-R intervals that are based on the acquisition of ECG signal. Sub-methods (RDF1), which are mainly based on heart rate variability, are used, wherein the respiratory frequency is determined from a pattern of rhythmic changes in heart beat data. The sub-methods (RDF1-n) are combined using an expert function, wherein each sub-method (RDF1-n) determines an estimate of the respiratory frequency.

Described herein are fetal and/or maternal monitoring devices, systems and methods using UWB medical radar. These devices and systems may include a UWB sensor providing high-resolution and reliable simultaneous monitoring of multiple indicators of fetal and/or maternal health, such as fetal heart rate, fetal heart rate variability, fetal respiration, fetal gross body movement, maternal contractions, maternal heart rate, maternal respiration, and other derivative parameters during virtually all stages of pregnancy and during delivery. The sensor allows novel collection of physiological data using a single sensor or multiple sensors to develop individual and aggregate normal motion indices for use in determining when departure from normal motion index is indicative of fetal or maternal distress.

Described herein are fetal and/or maternal monitoring devices, systems and methods using UWB medical radar. These devices and systems may include a UWB sensor providing high-resolution and reliable simultaneous monitoring of multiple indicators of fetal and/or maternal health, such as fetal heart rate, fetal heart rate variability, fetal respiration, fetal gross body movement, maternal contractions, maternal heart rate, maternal respiration, and other derivative parameters during virtually all stages of pregnancy and during delivery. The sensor allows novel collection of physiological data using a single sensor or multiple sensors to develop individual and aggregate normal motion indices for use in determining when departure from normal motion index is indicative of fetal or maternal distress.

This invention relates to a system and a kit for stress and relaxation management. A cardiac activity sensor (101) is used for measuring the heart rate variability (HRV) signal of the user and a respiration sensor (102) for measuring the respiratory signal of the user. The system contains a user interaction device (103) having an input unit (104) for receiving user specific data and an output unit for providing information output to the user. A processor (106) is used to assess the stress level of the user by determining a user related stress index. The processor is also used to monitor the user during a relaxation exercise by means of determining a relaxation index based on the measured HRV and respiratory signals, the relaxation index being continuously adapted to the incoming measured signals and based thereon the processor instructs the output unit to provide the user with biofeedback and support messages. Finally, the processor uses the user specific data as an input in generating a first set of rules defining an improvement plan for self-management of stress and relaxation. The first set of rules is adapted to trigger commands instructing the output unit to provide the user with motivation related messages. Also, at least a portion of said user specific data is further used to define a second set of rules indicating the user's personal goals.

Methods, devices, and systems for monitoring heart rate variability (HRV). The HRV monitoring systems and devices are adapted to give immediate feedback to the subject concerning their current condition and any pertinent changes in their condition. The HRV monitoring systems and devices detect, analyze, and assess HRV against a pre-determined application or user need. They also have the ability to provide real time notifications based on the system's assessment of a user's heart HRV and changes in the HRV.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring the fetal condition in an objective, quantitative, and non-invasive manner by enabling continuous and highly specific data collection during pre-natal development and the intra-partum period. In an embodiment, monitoring the fetal condition comprises monitoring a fetal heart rate, a fetal heart rate variability, and/or the fetal heart vector orientation of a fetus in a pregnant mother. Automated signal processing techniques are applied to a multiplicity of transducers to select an optimum signal vector to monitor at least one of a fetal heart rate, a fetal heart rate variability, and/or the fetal heart vector orientation of a fetus in a pregnant mother.

The invention provides a biological feedback control method and system based on HRV heart rate variability training. The biological feedback control method comprises the steps that S1, mode options of any one or more combinations including a breathing guiding mode, a breathing training mode and a state evaluating mode are provided for a user to select; and S2, a corresponding mode interface is entered according to the selecting operation of the user, and heart rate variability analyzing is conducted on the current user when the user selects the breathing training mode or the state evaluating mode. The biological feedback control method has the advantages that the biological feedback control method is not limited to simple evaluation any longer, by conducting pointed breathing trainings with different rhythms on the user, impaired parasympathetic nerves (or sympathetic nerves) can recover to be balanced, and the purpose of effective preventing or relieving some diseases is achieved.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and device for acquiring a heart rate variation characteristic parameter. The method comprises the following steps of: calculating and obtaining a heart rate variation signal in a time domain according to a human physiological signal; carrying out time-frequency conversion on the heart rate variation signal in the time domain, and selecting a power spectrum subsequence reflecting heart rate variation from a converted power spectrum sequence according to a frequency characteristic of the heart rate variation; accumulating power values at frequency points upwards from a lowest frequency point of the power spectrum subsequence, and accumulating power values at frequency points downwards from a highest frequency point to obtain a first frequency point when the ratio of the accumulated power value to the total power value is more than a low frequency search ratio and a second frequency point when the ratio of the accumulated power value to the total power value is more than a high frequency search ratio; and obtaining the difference between the second frequency point and the first frequency point to obtain the frequency band width of the power spectrum subsequence, and the frequency band width is the characteristic parameter. According to the embodiment of the invention, the characteristic parameter can reflect periodic variation of the heart rate variation and also can reflect a position relationship between a main peak value and a secondary peak value.

The invention provides a sleep staging method based on a BCG (ballistocardiogram) signal. The method comprises the steps as follows: extracting a heart rate signal, a pulse signal and a respiration signal from the BCG signal acquired in advance, and calculating heart rate variability (HRV) and cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) power spectrum according to the heart rate signal, the pulse signal and the respiration signal; acquiring change trend signals of frequency domain characteristics of the HRV and the CPC power spectrum, converting the change trend signals of the frequency domain characteristics of the HRV and the CPC power spectrum into multichannel image characteristics, performing characteristic extraction of the HRV and the CPC power spectrum, and extracting characteristic vectors according to time domain signals of the extracted HRV and CPC power spectrum; and training sleep staging results corresponding to HRV and CPC power spectrum density signals according to the multichannelimage characteristics and characteristic vectors. The sleep staging method combines the HRV and the CPC power spectrum to distinguish sleep stages and has higher adaptability and accuracy.

A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system includes a support structure that the patient may wear, and one or more sensors that may acquire patient physiological signals, such as ECG and others. A processor of the WCD system may determine diagnostics from the patient physiological signals. These diagnostics include a six-second ECG portion, heart rates as histograms, heart rates against QRS width, heart rate trends, clinical event counters, diagnostics relating to heart rate variability and about the atrial arrhythmia burden of the patient. In some embodiments, the WCD system includes a user interface with a screen that displays these diagnostics. In some embodiments, the WCD system exports these diagnostics for viewing by a different screen. When viewed, these diagnostics permit more detailed analysis of the state of the patient.

The invention provides a heart rate measuring method and a heart rate measuring device based on the bioelectrical impedance technology. According to the heart rate measuring method, the bioelectrical impedance technology is adopted, specifically, an electrical impedance signal of the radial artery of the arm of a tested person is collected, then analog-digital conversion is carried out on the signal, thus an electrical impedance digital signal is obtained, and then the heart rate and heart rate variability characters are extracted from the electrical impedance digital signal. The heart rate measuring method has the characteristics of being simple and feasible, and being low in price and easy and convenient to operate, the heart rate data can be rapidly and accurately collected and analyzed, and the measurement for the tested person is realized.

A decision support tool is provided for predicting the neonatal vitality scores of a fetus during delivery, the scores being an indicator of future health for the infant anticipated to be born within a future time interval, measured as time to birth. The predicted neonatal vitality score is determined from measurements of physiological variables monitored during labor, such as uterine activity and fetal heart rate. Fetal heart rate variability and patterns may be detected and computed using the monitored physiological variables, and neonatal vitality scores may be predicted based, at least in part, on the variability metrics and fetal heart rate patterns. Scores may be predicted for different delivery methods, such as vaginal delivery or cesarean delivery, for different time-to-birth intervals. In this way, these scores may be used for decision support for care plans during labor, such as increased monitoring and/or modifying the delivery type.

The invention discloses a sleep staging method based on BCG and blood oxygen saturation rate. The sleep staging method comprises the following steps of collecting BCG data and blood oxygen saturationdata of the whole night; extracting a JJ interval from BCG signals to obtain a heart rate signal and heart rate variability; processing the BCG signal to obtain a respiratory rate signal, and calculating a cardiopulmonary coupling power spectrum; and establishing a state set S = {S1, S2, S3, S4} of the sleep process. According to the sleep staging method based on the BCG and the blood oxygen saturation rate, the accuracy degree of sleep staging of non-contact information collection can be improved, the characteristics of a sober state are extracted in a cardiopulmonary coupling power spectrummode, sleep staging training is optimized by a machine learning clustering analysis method, the accuracy degree of sleep staging is improved, and a user can be helped to obtain an accurate examinationresult of the sleep state in a non-inductive environment.

The invention discloses a multi-spectrum facial physiological signal acquisition system and method. A function of acquiring pulse waves is added on the basis that an existing facial diagnosis instrument can acquire facial colors. An annular LED lamp band capable of emitting multiple light rays is designed as a light source, a driving hardware and control functions of the lamp source are matched, and then pulse wave information existing in capillaries at different depths can be detected, so that qualitative thinking that only facial color is analyzed in the traditional Chinese medicine facial diagnosis instrument is broken. Meanwhile, pulse waves are acquired at the same time, and qualitative analysis is carried out on heart rate, blood oxygen content, heart rate variability, pulse pressureand the like of a tested person through pulse wave information, so that the problems that only a white light LED is adopted as a lamp box light source in the existing face diagnosis instrument, onlythe face color of a subject can be acquired, and pulse wave information of the subject cannot be acquired are solved.

The invention discloses a sleep staging method, system and device based on a ballistocardiogram signal and a medium. The method comprises the following steps: collecting a first ballistocardiogram signal of a human body; acquiring a first heartbeat signal and a first respiration signal according to the first heart impact signal; acquiring a first heart rate variability and a first cardiopulmonary coupling power spectrogram according to the first heartbeat signal and the first respiration signal; inputting the first heart rate variability and the first cardiopulmonary coupling power spectrogram into a sleep staging model for feature extraction, performing sleep staging according to extracted features, and outputting a staging result; wherein the sleep staging model is obtained by training by adopting electrocardiosignals and then adjusting by adopting ballistocardiogram signals on the basis of transfer learning. The sleep staging is realized through the ballistocardiogram signal, and since the ballistocardiogram signal can be acquired in a non-invasive manner, the comfort of sleep monitoring is improved. The method can be widely applied to the field of sleep monitoring.

Methods, devices, and systems for monitoring heart rate variability (HRV) are presented. The HRV monitoring systems and devices are adapted to give immediate feedback to the subject concerning their current condition and any pertinent changes in their condition. The HRV monitoring systems and devices detect, analyze, and assess HRV against a pre-determined application or user need. They also have the ability to provide real time notifications based on the system's assessment of a user's heart HRV and changes in the HRV.