Abstract:
Conventional systems and methods of classifying heart signals include segmenting them which can fail due to the presence of noise, artifacts and other sounds including third heart sound ‘S3’, fourth heart sound ‘S4’, and murmur. Heart sounds are inherently prone to interfering noise (ambient, speech, etc.) and motion artifact, which can overlap time location and frequency spectra of murmur in heart sound. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide parallel implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for classifying heart sound signals (HSS) wherein spatial (presence of different frequencies component) filters from Spectrogram feature(s) of the HSS are learnt by a first DNN while time-varying component of the signals from MFCC features of the HSS are learnt by a second DNN for classifying the heart sound signal as one of normal sound signal or murmur sound signal.
Abstract:
A system and method for estimating blood pressure (BP) using photoplethysmogram (PPG) has been explained. The PPG is captured from a PPG sensor (102). For preparing training model, a pulse oximeter is used for capturing PPG. For testing, a smartphone camera is used for capturing the PPG signal. A plurality of features are extracted from the preprocessed PPG signal. A BP distribution is then generated using the plurality of features and the training model. The BP distribution is part of a set of BP distributions generated from different subjects. Finally, a post-processing methodology have been used to reject inconsistent data out of the set of BP distributions and BP value is estimated only for the remaining BP distributions and a statistical average is provided as the blood pressure estimate.
Abstract:
A method and system for blood pressure (BP) estimation of a person is provided. The system is estimating pulse transit time (PTT) using the ECG signal and PPG signal of the person. A plurality of features are extracted from the PPG. The plurality of PPG features and the PTT are provided as inputs to an automated feature selection algorithm. This algorithm selects a set of features suitable for BP estimation. The selected features are fed to a classifier to classify the database into low/normal BP range and a high BP range. The correctly classified normal BP data are then used to create a regression model to predict BP from the selected features. The current methodology uses automated feature selection mechanism and also employs a block to reject extreme BP data. Thus the available accuracy in predicting BP is expected to be more than the existing BP estimation methods.
Abstract:
Current technologies analyze electrocardiogram (ECG) signals for a long duration, which is not always a practical scenario. Moreover the current scenarios perform a binary classification between normal and Atrial Fibrillation (AF) only, whereas there are many abnormal rhythms apart from AF. Conventional systems/methods have their own limitations and may tend to misclassify ECG signals, thereby resulting in an unbalanced multi-label classification problem. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods that are robust and more efficient for classifying rhythms for example, normal, AF, other abnormal rhythms and noisy ECG recordings by implementing a spectrogram based noise removal that obtains clean ECG signal from an acquired single-lead ECG signal, an optimum feature selection at each layer of classification that selects optimum features from a pool of extracted features, and a multi-layer cascaded binary classifier that identifies rhythms in the clean ECG signal at each layer of the classifier.
Abstract:
Method(s) and system(s) for identification of an unknown person are disclosed. The method includes receiving skeleton data comprises data of multiple skeleton joints of the unknown person from skeleton recording devices. The method further includes extracting G gait feature vectors from the skeleton data. Further, the method includes classifying each gait feature vector into one of N classes based on a training dataset for N known persons and computing a classification score for each class. The method also includes clustering the training dataset into M clusters based on M predefined characteristic attributes of the known persons, tagging each gait feature vector with one of the M clusters based on a distance between a respective gait feature vector and cluster centers of M clusters, and determining a clustering score for each M cluster. The method further includes identifying the unknown person based on clustering scores and classification scores.
Abstract:
Electrocardiography (ECG) signals contain important markers for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). State of the art systems and methods rely on clinically available multi-lead ECG for CHD classification which is not cost effective. Moreover the state of the art methods are applied on digital ECG time series data only. Also, discriminative HRV markers are not often present in short ECG recordings necessitating long hours of ECG data to analyze. In accordance with the present disclosure, systems and methods described hereinafter extract ECG time series from ECG images obtained from commercially available low-cost single lead ECG devices through a combination of image and signal processing steps including Histogram analysis, Morphological operation-thinning, Extraction of lines, Extraction of Reference Pulse, Extraction of ECG and interpolating missing data. Further, domain independent statistical features such as self-similarity of raw ECG time series and average Maharaj's distance along with domain specific features are used for classifying CHD.
Abstract:
A method for monitoring physiological parameters associated with a subject using a hand held device is described herein. In an implementation, the method includes obtaining a plurality of sample photoplethysmographic (PPG) features associated with a sample subject, from a video of a body part of the sample subject. From among the plurality of sample PPG features, at least one relevant sample PPG feature associated with the physiological parameter, is selected based on a ground truth value of the physiological parameter for the subject. Further, based on the at least one relevant sample PPG feature and the ground truth value of the physiological parameter, a mathematical model indicative of a correlation between the relevant sample PPG feature and the physiological parameter, is determined. The mathematical model can be deployed for monitoring the physiological parameter in real time.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method and system enabling power effective participatory sensing. The hand held device of the system is equipped with plurality of sensors, and is configured to enable the power effective sensor to monitor operation of the power intensive sensors. In one embodiment, a participatory sensing approach is used for traffic condition. A methodology for triggering power hungry sensors (audio) with the help of low power sensors (accelerometer) is presented which is able to reduce the overall power consumption of the mobile device. Further, a decision tree based approach is used to classify the level of congestion by measuring the horn density in a particular location.
Abstract:
The present invention provides the multimodality filtration surveillance comprising of a plurality of filtration stages executed at the backend server to confirm nature of anomaly in an event, the filtration stages comprising: a first filter of a video anomalies detection in the event for a specified time-place value, a second filter of a city soundscape adapted to provide a localized decibel maps of a city, a third filter of a geocoded social network adapted to semantically read and analyze data from one or more social media corresponding to the specified time-place value, and a fourth filter of an event triggered or proactive local participatory surveillance adapted to provide augmented information on the detected anomalies.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for real-time traffic detection are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing ambient sounds as an audio sample in a user device, and segmenting the audio sample into a plurality of audio frames. Further, the method comprises identifying periodic frames amongst the plurality of audio frames. Spectral features of the identified periodic frames are extracted, and horn sounds are identified based on the spectral features. The identified horn sounds are then used for real-time traffic detection.