A Comprehensive Assessment of Variations
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چکیده
Millions of patients worldwide are hospitalized each year due to an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Patients who have had an acute coronary syndrome are at higher risk for developing future adverse cardiovascular events such as cardiovascular death, congestive heart failure, or a repeat ACS. Currently, there have been several electrocardiographic metrics used to assess the risk of ACS patients for a future cardiovascular death including heart rate variability, heart rate turbulence, deceleration capacity, T-wave alternans, and morphologic variability. This thesis introduces new ECG-based metrics that can be used to risk-stratify post-ACS patients for future cardiovascular death and evaluates the clinical utility of the existing electrocardiogram based metric known as morphologic variability (MV). We first analyze a metric called weighted morphologic variability (WMV) which is based on assessment of beat-tobeat morphology changes in the ECG. In addition, we introduce machine learning methods with morphology based features to separate post-ACS patients into high risk or low risk for cardiovascular death. Finally, we aim to increase the clinical utility of MV by creating a metric that can achieve good risk stratification when applied to a small amount of data. The body of this work suggests that morphologic variability is an effective metric in prognosticating postACS patients into high risk and low risk for cardiovascular dearth. Thesis Supervisor: Collin M. Stultz Title: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Professor of Health Sciences Technology
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