Systems and methods for assessing heart and respiratory disorders

A system for assessing heart and respiratory health in a patient, comprising:

• a processing unit;
• and
• a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processing unit, configure the system to:
• receive video data of a neck region of the patient captured by a video recording device;
• generate, with a video analysis tool, assessment data indicative of heart and/or respiratory heath in the patient, wherein generating the assessment data comprises:
• segmenting the video data into a plurality of sub-regions, each of the plurality of sub-regions depicting a sub-region of the neck region and corresponding to a region in the video data;
• extracting a plurality of pulsatile signals corresponding to an artery or a vein in the neck region, wherein a pulsatile signal is extracted from each of the plurality of sub-regions of the video data by tracking variations of pixel color and/or pixel movement in each sub-region of the video data to generate a plurality of times-series data corresponding to the plurality of pulsatile signals, each of the plurality of times-series data corresponding to one of the plurality of pulsatile signals;
• extracting features corresponding to pulsatile signal features and comprising statistical features, time domain features, frequency domain features, or combinations thereof from each of the plurality of times-series data;
• classifying one or more pulsatile signals of the plurality of pulsatile signals as pulsatile signals of interest indicative of the heart and/or respiratory health in the patient based on the extracted features and classifying one or more of the pulsatile signals of interest as either a jugular venous pulsation or a carotid artery pulsation;
• and
• generating the assessment data indicative of heart and/or respiratory health in the patient based on the pulsatile signals of interest and the extracted features;
• and
• output the assessment data indicative of heart and/or respiratory health in the patient,
• wherein the assessment data comprises:
• a heat map of the neck region of the patient highlighting the pulsatile signals of interest and the jugular venous pulsation.