Characterizing patterns of response during mild stress-testing in continuous echocardiography recordings using a multiview dimensionality reduction technique

Abstract

Comunicació presentada a: 9th international conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH 2017), celebrada de l'11 al 13 de juny de 2017 a Toronto, Canada.

In this paper, we capture patterns of response to cardiac stress-testing using a multiview dimensionality reduction technique that allows the compact representation of patient response to stress, regarding multiple features over consecutive cycles, as a low-dimensional trajectory. In this low-dimensional space, patients can be compared and clustered in distinct healthy and pathological responses, and the patterns that characterize each of them can be reconstructed. Experiments were performed on (a) synthetic data simulating different types of response and (b) a real acquisition during a cold pressor test. Results show that the proposed approach allows the clustering of healthy and pathological responses, as well as the reconstruction of characteristic patterns of such responses, in terms of multiple features of interest.

This work is supported by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation, under grant agreement No. 642676 (CardioFunXion).