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

Abstract

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.