System and method for monitoring vascular system health

1. A system for non-invasively monitoring health of a vascular system of a patient, the system comprising:

a monitoring device for measuring vascular activity of the patient; and

a server configured for performing steps comprising:

receiving a set of signals comprising a vascular signal derived from vascular activity measurements of the patient by said monitoring device;

performing a signal process on the vascular signal, the signal process comprising:

differentiating the vascular signal to obtain a first derivative signal;

finding local maxima of the first derivative signal;

determining pulses in the first derivative signal wherein the local maxima of the pulses do not conform to a predefined descending order of amplitudes; and

excluding the determined pulses from the vascular signal;

reconstructing an identity pulse from the processed vascular signal;

determining identity pulse features from the identity pulse;

comparing data from a set of features with a patient database, the set of features comprising the identity pulse features; and

generating a patient risk assessment of vascular health conditions based on results from the comparison with the patient database, wherein the patient database comprises data associated with the set of features for a population of patients.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the signal process comprises superimposing pulses in the vascular signal into a single pulse.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein the signal process comprises normalizing the single pulse to thereby reconstruct the identity pulse.

4. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a set of measuring instruments connectable to said monitoring device, wherein said set of measuring instruments comprise one or more vascular sensors for measuring the vascular activity of the patient.

5. The system according to claim 4 , the measuring instruments further comprising one or more temperature sensors for measuring temperature of the patient, wherein the set of signals further comprises a temperature signal derived from temperature measurements of the patient, the steps further comprising determining temperature signal features from the temperature signal, wherein the set of features further comprises the temperature signal features.

6. The system according to claim 4 , wherein the vascular signal is derived from a plethysmogram or an electrocardiogram resulting from the vascular activity measurements, the vascular sensors comprising a pulse oximeter sensor or an electrocardiogram sensor for obtaining the plethysmogram or electrocardiogram, respectively.

7. A computerized method implemented on a server for non-invasively monitoring health of a vascular system of a patient, the method comprising:

receiving a set of signals comprising a vascular signal derived from vascular activity measurements of the patient by a monitoring device;

performing a signal process on the vascular signal, the signal process comprising:

differentiating the vascular signal to obtain a first derivative signal;

finding local maxima of the of the first derivative signal;

determining pulses in the first derivative signal where the local maxima of the pulses do not conform to a predefined descending order of amplitudes; and

excluding the determined pulses from the vascular signal;

reconstructing an identity pulse from the processed vascular signal;

determining identity pulse features from the identity pulse;

comparing data from a set of features with a patient database, the set of features comprising the identity pulse features; and

generating a patient risk assessment of vascular health conditions based on results from the comparison with the patient database, wherein the patient database comprises data associated with the set of features for a population of patients.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the signal process comprises filtering the vascular signal from noise.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the signal process comprises excluding pulses falling outside a predefined confidence interval from the vascular signal.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the signal process comprises performing a polynomial decomposition on the vascular signal.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the signal process comprises excluding outlier pulses from the vascular signal.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the signal process comprises superimposing pulses in the vascular signal into a single pulse.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the signal process comprises normalizing the single pulse to thereby reconstruct the identity pulse.

14. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising comparing data from personal parameters of the patient with the patient database, wherein the personal parameters are input by the patient and communicated from an electronic device.

15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein the patient risk assessment is generated based additionally on the comparison of data from the personal parameters with the patient database.

16. The method according to claim 14 , further comprising updating the patient database with data from the set of features and personal parameters associated with the patient.

17. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the patient risk assessment comprises a probability of the patient contracting a vascular condition.