Method and system for the detection of heart disease

• Main Authors: Shen, Joseph T, Dentler, Shawn
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.03.2004

The present invention relates to the field of multi-phase information analysis applied to the detection and diagnosis of heart disease and more particularly to an Internet or intranet-based system for receiving information concerning a patient and analyzing such information through a plurality of computer resources adapted to apply algorithmic analysis to the information and comparison of the waveform results against a database of known diagnoses to thereby determine the likelihood of heart disease in the patient. A method and system for the detection of heart disease in a patient, having a remote testing unit for gathering analog data concerning the status of a patient's heart, converting the data to digital form, applying FFT's to the converted data, transferring the data to a computer for analysis. The analytic computer applies mathematical translation to the data received from the remote testing unit into a plurality of different graphical patterns representative of various states of the patient's heart. A data base is also employed that has graphical patterns representative of various states of a plurality of patients' hearts from normal through disease states. The analytic computer compares the graphical patterns of the patient's heart against the data base of graphical patterns recognizes at least one pattern in the data base more similar to the graphical patterns of the patient's heart. The analytic computer then determines a likely diagnosis of the patient's heart as a result of the recognized patterns and outputs the likely diagnosis. Application of Internet and intranet solutions are also provided. A comprehensive data base for storing a wealth of information including clinical data and data acquired is also provided. Firewall protection to maintain confidentiality is included.