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US 12,614,635 · App. 17/834,114 · Granted Apr 28, 2026

Systems and techniques for estimating the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a patient

Inventors: Nicholas Stergiou (Bennington, NE); Jennifer Yentes (Omaha, NE); Stephen I. Rennard (Omaha, NE); Amol Patil (Omaha, NE); William Denton (Omaha, NE)
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Patent No.
US 12,614,635
App. No.
17/834,114
Granted
Apr 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems and techniques for estimating the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a patient. For example, in some embodiments, a system for estimating COPD severity in a patient may include logic to receive a breathing signal representative of breathing activity of the patient over a time interval, receive a locomotion signal representative of locomotive activity of the patient over the time interval, and provide breathing data and locomotion data to additional logic, wherein the additional logic is to generate an estimate of COPD severity in the patient by comparison of 1) a cross-recurrence quantification analysis (cRQA) parameter between the breathing data and the locomotion data and 2) a reference value. The breathing data may be based on the breathing signal, and the locomotion data may be based on the locomotion signal.

Claims (45)

1 . A patient monitoring apparatus, comprising a breathing sensor, a locomotion sensor, a display device and at least one processor, said at least one processor configured to:

receive, from the breathing sensor, a breathing signal representative of breathing activity of a patient over a time interval;

receive, from the locomotion sensor, a locomotion signal representative of locomotive activity of the patient over the time interval;

determine whether the received breathing signal and locomotion signal have adequate characteristics for use in generating a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) severity estimate based on the breathing signal and locomotion signal, wherein the display device is configured to display a notification of inadequate characteristics for generating the COPD severity estimate;

when the received breathing signal or locomotion signal are determined as inadequate, then produce an instruction notification to amend a respective error condition; and

when the received breathing signal and locomotion signal are determined as adequate, then generate the COPD severity estimate in the patient based on cross-recurrence quantification analysis (cRQA) of the breathing signal and locomotion signal, wherein the display device is configured to display a visual representation of the estimate of COPD severity.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to generate the COPD severity estimate by:

producing a vector representation of the locomotion signal and the breathing signal;

applying the cRQA analysis on the vector representation of the locomotion signal and the breathing signal to obtain a cRQA dataset;

calculating at least one cRQA parameter based on the cRQA dataset;

generating the estimate of COPD severity by comparing the cRQA parameter to a reference value; and

generating a notification of the COPD severity estimate.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to produce the vector representation of the locomotion signal and the breathing signal by:

applying a false-nearest-neighbor algorithm on the locomotion signal and the breathing signal, to determine an embedding dimension of the vector representation of the locomotion signal and the breathing signal;

applying an average mutual information algorithm on the locomotion signal, to determine a time delay representing a spacing between samples of the locomotion signal, to produce the vector representation of the locomotion signal; and

applying an average mutual information algorithm on the breathing signal, to determine a time delay representing a spacing between samples of the breathing signal, to produce the vector representation of the breathing signal.

4 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

calculate a radius, representing minimal distance between the vector representation of the locomotion signal and the breathing signal to be counted as a cRQA point; and

perform the cRQA analysis by comparing the vector representation of the breathing signal to the vector representation of the locomotion signal, based on the calculated radius, to generate the cRQA dataset.

5 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to display the notification of estimate of COPD severity on a display device, simultaneously with at least one element selected from a list consisting of: a BODE (Body mass, airflow Obstruction, Dyspnea, and Exercise capacity) index for the patient, a GOLD (Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease) classification for the patient, and an EXAcerbations of Chronic pulmonary disease Tool (EXACT) score for the patient.

6 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to display the notification of estimate of COPD severity on a display device, simultaneously with an indicator of an activity level of the patient.

7 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein at least one cRQA parameter is a percent determinism parameter, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to calculate the percent determinism parameter value as a percentage of points that fall on a diagonal line within a plot representation of the cRQA dataset.

8 . The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the notification of the COPD severity estimate, representing greater severity of COPD, when a value of the percent determinism parameter is increased in relation to the reference value.

9 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein at least one cRQA parameter is a mean diagonal line length, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to calculate a value of the mean diagonal line length as a mean length of a diagonal line length in a plot representation of the cRQA dataset.

10 . The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the notification of the COPD severity estimate, representing greater severity of COPD, when a value of the mean diagonal line length is increased in relation to the reference value.

11 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein at least one cRQA parameter is an entropy parameter, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to calculate a value of the entropy parameter as a probability that a length of a diagonal line in a plot representation of the cRQA dataset is repeated.

12 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the notification of the COPD severity estimate, representing greater severity of COPD, when a value of the entropy parameter is increased in relation to the reference value.

13 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein at least one cRQA parameter is a percent recurrence parameter, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to calculate a value of the percent recurrence parameter as a percentage of an area of a plot representation of the cRQA dataset that is occupied by cRQA points.

14 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the notification of the COPD severity estimate, representing greater severity of COPD, when a value of the percent recurrence parameter is decreased in relation to the reference value.

15 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the reference value is a value of the cRQA parameter calculated from a reference population, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the notification of the COPD severity estimate, representing an indication that the patient's COPD severity is elevated with respect to the reference population.

16 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the reference value is a value of the cRQA parameter obtained from the patient at a previous time, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate the notification of the COPD severity estimate, representing an indication that the patient's COPD severity has increased from the previous time.

17 . The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to up-convert or down-convert at least one of the locomotion signal and breathing signal, so that the breathing signal and locomotion signal are sampled at consistent times.

18 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the error condition is selected from a list consisting of: an inadequate number of samples of sufficient locomotive activity have been received; the locomotion sensor being improperly positioned; the locomotion sensor malfunctioning; the locomotion signal being contaminated with noise; an inadequate number of samples of sufficient breathing activity have been received; the breathing sensor being improperly positioned; the breathing sensor malfunctioning; the breathing signal being contaminated with noise, an inadequate walking pace of the patient, and any combination thereof.

19 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the notification of COPD severity estimate, is selected from a list consisting of an e-mail, a text message, a social media message, a message in a proprietary communication system, and an update of the patient's file in an electronic patient record system maintained by a healthcare facility.

20 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the locomotion sensor is selected from a list consisting of a one-axis accelerometer, a two-axis accelerometer, a three-axis accelerometer, an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) that comprises a gyroscope, an IMU that comprises a three-axis accelerometer, a pressure sensor configured for use inside a patient's shoe or sock to detect steps, one or more wearable image capture devices, and any combination thereof.

21 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the breathing sensor is selected from a list consisting of a wearable resistive strap, a wearable capacitive strap, a sensor configured to measure flow of air out of a patient's nose and/or mouth, and any combination thereof.

22 . A method of estimating COPD severity by at least one processor, the method comprising:

receiving, from a first sensor, a first signal representative of breathing activity of a patient over a time interval;

receive, from a second sensor, a second signal representative of locomotive activity of the patient over the time interval;

producing a vector representation of the first signal and the second signal;

applying a cross-recurrence quantification analysis (cRQA) on the vector representation of the first signal and the second signal to obtain a cRQA dataset;

calculating at least one cRQA parameter value based on the cRQA dataset;

generating an estimation of COPD severity by comparing the cRQA parameter value to a reference value;

generating a notification of the COPD severity estimation; and

displaying the notification of the COPD severity estimation on a display device.

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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2022
From: STERGIOU, NICHOLAS; YENTES, JENNIFER; PATIL, AMOL; RENNARD, STEPHEN; DENTON, WILLIAM
To: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Provisional Application 62042465 · Aug 27, 2014
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