Systems and methods for detecting premature ventricular contraction

Abstract

Systems and methods for detecting and classifying premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are discussed. An exemplary system includes a sensor circuit to sense a cardiac signal of a subject, and a processor circuit to detect heartbeats from the cardiac signal and detect a PVC under a first detection mode or a different second detection mode. The first detection mode includes identifying a PVC candidate of a particular type using cardiac intervals or signal amplitudes of the detected heartbeats, and classifying the identified PVC candidate as a PVC singleton or a pattern of multiple consecutive PVCs using signal features including morphology features of the sensed cardiac signal. The second detection mode includes detecting PVC of the particular type using the cardiac intervals or the signal amplitudes of the detected heartbeats. The first detection mode can be transitioned to the second detection mode in response to a mode-switching trigger event.