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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2020
Unitedhealth Group Incorporated, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Jon Kevin Muse, Thompsons Station, TN (US);
Gregory J. Boss, Saginaw, MI (US);
Rama S. Ravindranathan, Edison, NJ (US);
Marilyn L. Gordon, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide methods for identifying suspect heart or lung sounds and methods for generating an isolated sound sample. In some embodiments, a method for identifying suspect heart or lung sounds comprises obtaining, by processing circuitry, an instance of data samples comprising at least two audio samples and respiratory and/or cardiac cycle data, the audio samples comprising auscultation sounds of an individual, based on the respiratory and/or cardiac cycle data, processing the at least two audio samples to generate a plurality of sound samples, identifying a primary sound sample, generating at least one of a modified secondary sound or a modified baseline sample and combining the modified secondary sound sample or the modified baseline sample with the primary sound sample to generate an isolated sound sample.