Automatic Discrimination between NSR, VT and VF

Hypothermia for non-VF/ VT cardiac arrest

Sudden cardiac death represents a major health problem. In adults, the prevalence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) attended by the emergency medical services (EMS) ranges from 52 to 112 per 100,000 person-years in developed countries [1], whereas the prevalence of adult in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) ranges from 1 to 5 per 1,000 patient admissions [2]. Mortality from cardiac arrest e...

Current Issues in ICD SVT-VT Discrimination: Pacing for SVT-VT Discrimination

Automatic discrimination between laughter and speech

Emotions can be recognized by audible paralinguistic cues in speech. By detecting these paralinguistic cues that can consist of laughter, a trembling voice, coughs, changes in the intonation contour etc., information about the speaker’s state and emotion can be revealed. This paper describes the development of a gender-independent laugh detector with the aim to enable automatic emotion recognit...

Automatic Discrimination between Cognates and Borrowings

Identifying the type of relationship between words provides a deeper insight into the history of a language and allows a better characterization of language relatedness. In this paper, we propose a computational approach for discriminating between cognates and borrowings. We show that orthographic features have discriminative power and we analyze the underlying linguistic factors that prove rel...

Safety of therapeutic hypothermia in post VF/VT cardiac arrest patients.

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is a process of cooling a patient post ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF) cardiac arrest to 32-34 degrees C for 24 hours. This improves neurological outcome and is part of current guidelines. Hypothermia prolongs QT interval, which can precipitate torsades de pointes (TdP). We performed a retrospective review of all patients who received TH in ...