The use of recurrence plots and beat recordings in chronic heart failure detection

Abstract

Abstract Chronic heart failure is a syndrome consisting in clinical symptoms that arise as a result of complications of many disease entities. According to the definition it is a condition in which, as a consequence of permanent heart dysfunction, cardiac output is reduced in relation to tissues’ metabolic demand. This results in subjective symptoms or proper cardiac output is sustained over higher filling pressure of the left heart ventricle. The occurrence of disease among adults in Europe and North America is 0.4-2%. Heart dysfunction detected by echocardiography appears with the frequency of 3%, and in people over 60 years of age it doubles with each decade of life, reaching 10% after 80 years of age. The aim of the study is to make an acquisition of fremitus in apex beat place and quantitative evaluation of some of their features which are correlated with the advanced syndrome. We have built the apparatus for the heart signal recording and proposed the original method of its analysis based on the theory of chaos and recurrence plots. It gave us, on the group of 85 patients, sensitivity equal to 0.896 specificity equal to 0.676 and the accuracy of diagnostics of the chronic heart failure equal up to 80%.