Systems and methods for detecting anomaly in a cardiovascular signal using hierarchical extremas and repetitions

A system for detecting an anomaly in a cardiovascular signal using hierarchical extremas and repetitions, the said system comprising:

• a memory storing instructions;
• one or more communication interfaces;
• and
• one or more hardware processors coupled to the memory via the one or more communication interfaces, wherein the one or more hardware processors are configured by the instructions to:
• smoothen, using a filter, the cardiovascular signal acquired for filtering the cardiovascular signal;
• derive, using a window detection technique, one or more sets of hierarchical extremas, based upon the smoothened cardiovascular signal, wherein the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas comprises maximum points and minimum points based on rising edges and falling edges of the cardiovascular signal, wherein each level of hierarchy in the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas represents a different window size of detection, and wherein the window detection technique to derive the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas comprising the steps of:
• deriving a number of sampling points and amplitude difference from minima to maxima and maxima to minima;
• performing clustering on the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the minima to maxima using k-means clustering to derive a number of clusters with centroids;
• performing clustering on the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the maxima to minima using the k-means clustering to derive a number of clusters with centroids;
• determining a plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters for the minima to maxima;
• determining a plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters for the maxima to minima;
• obtaining a value of window left (wl) as a function of the plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters corresponding to the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the minima to maxima;
• obtaining a value of window right (wr) as a function of the plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters corresponding to the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the maxima to minima;
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• obtaining a primary window (Tp), a secondary window (Tst) and a tertiary window (Tt) using the obtained value of wl and wr, for deriving the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas, wherein the Vis represented as Tp=wl+wr, the Tst is represented as Tst=wl/2 and the Tt is represented as Tt=(wl+wr)/4;
• identify, one or more elements of signal patterns, based upon the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas, wherein the one or more elements of signal patterns comprise multiple frequencies and significance associated with the cardiovascular signal for defining a plurality of physiological events of the user or noise, wherein identifying the significance of the one or more elements of the signal patterns comprises obtaining a lower triangular matrix based upon the one or more sets of hierarchy of extremas, and wherein the lower triangular matrix comprises number of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns to identify variability in the cardiovascular signal;
• detect, the anomaly in the cardiovascular signal by:
• determining occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns;
• determine randomness of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns, by computing an entropy of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns, wherein the entropy comprises randomness of the one or more elements of signal patterns computed based upon probabilities of repetitions of the one or more elements of signal patterns, and wherein determining the randomness of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns comprises obtaining one or more threshold values based upon an equi-probable occurrence of the one or more elements of signal patterns for classifying the one or more elements of signal patterns;
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• identify, significance of repetitions of the one or more elements of signal patterns, based upon the occurrences and randomness of occurrences to detect the anomaly in the cardiovascular signal, wherein identifying the significance of repetitions of the one or more elements of signal patterns comprises obtaining a lower triangular matrix based upon the one or more sets of hierarchy of extremas, and wherein the lower triangular matrix comprises number of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns to identify variability in the cardiovascular signal.

One or more non-transitory machine readable information storage mediums comprising one or more instructions which when executed by one or more hardware processors causes the one or more hardware processor to perform a method for detecting an anomaly in a cardiovascular signal using hierarchical extremas and repetitions, said method comprising:

• smoothening, using a filter, the cardiovascular signal acquired for filtering the cardiovascular signal;
• deriving, using a window detection technique, one or more sets of hierarchical extremas, based upon the smoothened cardiovascular signal, wherein the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas comprises maximum points and minimum points based on rising edges and falling edges of the cardiovascular signal, wherein each level of hierarchy in the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas represents a different window size of detection, and wherein the window detection technique to derive the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas comprising the steps of:
• deriving a number of sampling points and amplitude difference from minima to maxima and maxima to minima;
• performing clustering on the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the minima to maxima using k-means clustering to derive a number of clusters with centroids;
• performing clustering on the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the maxima to minima using the k-means clustering to derive a number of clusters with centroids;
• determining a plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters for the minima to maxima;
• determining a plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters for the maxima to minima;
• obtaining a value of window left (wl) as a function of the plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters corresponding to the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the minima to maxima;
• obtaining a value of window right (wr) as a function of the plurality of boundaries of the number of clusters corresponding to the number of sampling points and the amplitude difference from the maxima to minima;
• and
• obtaining a primary window (Tp), a secondary window (Tst) and a tertiary window (Tt) using the obtained value of wl and wr, for deriving the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas, wherein the Tp represented as Tp=wl+wr, the Tst is represented as Tst=wl/2 and the Tt is represented as Tt=(wl+wr)/4;
• identifying, one or more elements of signal patterns, based upon the one or more sets of hierarchical extremas, wherein the one or more elements of signal patterns comprise multiple frequencies and significance associated with the cardiovascular signal for defining a plurality of physiological events of the user or noise, wherein identifying the significance of the one or more elements of the signal patterns comprises obtaining a lower triangular matrix based upon the one or more sets of hierarchy of extremas, and wherein the lower triangular matrix comprises number of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns to identify variability in the cardiovascular signal;
• detecting, the anomaly in the cardiovascular signal by:
• determining occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns;
• determining randomness of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns, by computing an entropy of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns, wherein the entropy comprises randomness of the one or more elements of signal patterns computed based upon probabilities of repetitions of the one or more elements of signal patterns, and wherein determining the randomness of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns comprises obtaining one or more threshold values based upon an equi-probable occurrence of the one or more elements of signal patterns for classifying the one or more elements of signal patterns;
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• identifying, significance of repetitions of the one or more elements of signal patterns, based upon the occurrences and randomness of occurrences to detect the anomaly in the cardiovascular signal, wherein identifying the significance of repetitions of the one or more elements of signal patterns comprises obtaining a lower triangular matrix based upon the one or more sets of hierarchy of extremas, and wherein the lower triangular matrix comprises number of occurrences of the one or more elements of signal patterns to identify variability in the cardiovascular signal.