Methods and systems for engineering cardiac waveform features from biophysical signals for use in characterizing physiological systems

Abstract

A clinical evaluation system and method are disclosed that facilitate the use of one or more morphologic atrial depolarization waveform-based features or parameters determined from biophysical signals such as cardiac or biopotential signals that are acquired, in preferred embodiments, non-invasively from surface sensors placed on a patient while the patient is at rest. Morphologic atrial depolarization waveform-based features or parameters can be used in a model or classifier to estimate metrics associated with the physiological state of a patient, including the presence or non-presence of a disease, medical condition, or an indication of either. The estimated metric may be used to assist a physician or other healthcare provider in diagnosing the presence or non-presence and/or severity and/or localization of diseases or conditions or in the treatment of said diseases or conditions.