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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Chevone Marie Barretto, London, GB;
Rita Priori, Cambridge, GB;
Cees Van Berkel, Hove, GB;
Mareike Klee, Straelen, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the growing chronic respiratory diseases and is now a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Acute exacerbations have a negative impact on health related quality of life of COPD patients, survival rates, pulmonary function and utilization of health-care resources. The present application discloses an apparatus (), system (), method (), and computer program for assessing a risk of an exacerbation and/or hospitalization of a subject. To this extent, time-dependent activity data is Fourier-transformed to frequency space to obtain frequency-dependent activity data. Next, a moment of said frequency-dependent activity data is computed. Finally, a risk of said exacerbation and/or hospitalization of said subject to occur is assessed based on said moment.