New Heart Research Poised to Help Millions
Biosignetics Announces Results of its Heart Sound Research. New heart sound processing research leads to the invention of the Heart Energy Signature (HES). It is based on inexpensive technology and allows mapping heart sound morphology in the same way X-rays or Ultrasound allows to get additional insight into a human body and offers a great potential for early detection of heart diseases
Biosignetics Announces Results of its Heart Sound Research.
Cardiac
diseases, including heart attack and angina, are the leading causes of death in
the developed countries. The American Heart Association estimates that about 12
million Americans have some kind of coronary heart disease, an estimated 2-4% of
Americans suffer from heart diseases and further 10-12% are projected to be at
risk. Studies published in American Medical Association Journal consistently
show that most new doctors can’t use stethoscope. According to Dr. Salvatore
Mangione’s study residents were wrong four out of five times, when asked to
detect 12 different heart problems by listening with a stethoscope.
The
very nature of heart attacks and the severity of their impact lead to high
fatality rates with more than 60% of deaths occur before the victims reach the
hospital. Once victims arrive to the hospital and survive the first day, overall
chances of survival are significantly improved. This shows very clearly, that
the earlier a heart disease is detected, the more likely it is to be cured or
successfully managed.
Biosignetics Corporation has developed and applied
state-of-the art signal processing computational algorithms aiming to aid
physicians and medical students to enable early heart disease diagnosis during
the routine medical checkups. New heart sound processing research leads to the
invention of the Heart Energy Signature (http://www.bsignetics.com/serv02.htm ). It is based on
inexpensive technology and allows mapping heart sound morphology in the same way
X-rays or Ultrasound allows to get additional insight into a human body.
Scientists developed a look up album of unique energy signatures that correspond
with various heart conditions.
Present research brings many new
possibilities in the sound based characterization of auscultatory documented
human heart conditions (stenosis, regurgitation, splits, clicks, gallops, snaps,
rumble, valve prolapse, murmurs, septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, atrial
septal defect). Resulting heart sound images are self-referencing and can be
easily understood by the physicians, medical researchers and patients alike.
Patent pending Heart Energy Signature has a great potential to become de-facto
standard to record, store, compare and track sound based heart diagnosis data.
It can be especially effective in heart disease related research and in
educating medical students and doctors to perform auscultation more effectively.
Preliminary results also show an immense promise for use in neuroscience
and for analysis of cortical brain responses, for example being able to clearly
differentiate agitated and calm mental states.
Company research proposal
was selected to be the semi-finalist at the US Advance Technology Program (ATP)
managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. ATP Program funds
high-risk high payoff path-breaking research from all technology areas. “We were
very pleased and honored to be selected as semi-finalists in such a prestigious
and tough competition”, said Dr. Vladimir Polyshchuk, Biosignetics President and
Technical Director. “Our research direction is now focused on early detection of
silent heart diseases so that they can be treated using less invasive
methods.”
ABOUT BIOSIGNETICS
Biosignetics has developed and
commercialized patent pending Heart Energy Signature format and method.
Biosignetics is registered with FDA as equipment supplier. Company continues its
research and regulatory efforts to prepare 510(K) FDA application for the
clinical diagnosis software. Biosignetics is aggressively engaged in early
detection research focusing on reliable detection of weak multi-component
signals and patterns in otherwise noisy environment and is actively looking for
clinical research partners in the medical
community.
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"Study:
Most new doctors can't use stethoscope only 20 percent 'hear' common
heart
problems", CNN Interactive, 1997, http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9709/02/nfm.heart.sounds/
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