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Digital stethoscopes, and auscultation and imaging systems

Described embodiments include a system (74), including a garment (76), configured to cover at least a portion of a body of a subject, one or more sound transmitters (92) coupled to the garment, configured to transmit sound (128) through the body of the subject, and a plurality of sound detectors (22, 96) coupled to the garment. The sound detectors are configured to detect the transmitted sound following passage of the transmitted sound through the body of the subject, to detect body sound (25) emanating from the body of the subject, and to generate a plurality of sound-detector outputs in response to detecting the transmitted sound and the body sound. The system further includes a processor (98), configured to process the sound-detector outputs, and to generate a processor output in response thereto. Other embodiments are also described.

PHYSICAL PARAMETER MEASURING DEVICES
20210121077 · 2021-04-29 ·

Described herein are devices, systems, and methods for sensing a physical parameter of an individual. In some embodiments, a physical parameter of an individual comprises an ECG sensed from the individual. In some embodiments, a physical parameter comprises a heart rate of an individual. In some embodiments, a physical parameter comprises a blood pressure of an individual. Generally, devices, systems, and methods described herein for physical parameter measurement include an application specific integrated circuit configured to facilitate effective physical parameter measurement.

PHYSICAL PARAMETER MEASURING DEVICES
20210121077 · 2021-04-29 ·

Described herein are devices, systems, and methods for sensing a physical parameter of an individual. In some embodiments, a physical parameter of an individual comprises an ECG sensed from the individual. In some embodiments, a physical parameter comprises a heart rate of an individual. In some embodiments, a physical parameter comprises a blood pressure of an individual. Generally, devices, systems, and methods described herein for physical parameter measurement include an application specific integrated circuit configured to facilitate effective physical parameter measurement.

Augmenting real-time views of a patient with three-dimensional data
11004271 · 2021-05-11 · ·

Augmenting real-time views of a patient with three-dimensional (3D) data. In one embodiment, a method may include identifying 3D data for a patient with the 3D data including an outer layer and multiple inner layers, determining virtual morphometric measurements of the outer layer from the 3D data, registering a real-time position of the outer layer of the patient in a 3D space, determining real-time morphometric measurements of the outer layer of the patient, automatically registering the position of the outer layer from the 3D data to align with the registered real-time position of the outer layer of the patient in the 3D space using the virtual morphometric measurements and using the real-time morphometric measurements, and displaying, in an augmented reality (AR) headset, one of the inner layers from the 3D data projected onto real-time views of the outer layer of the patient.

Augmenting real-time views of a patient with three-dimensional data
11004271 · 2021-05-11 · ·

Augmenting real-time views of a patient with three-dimensional (3D) data. In one embodiment, a method may include identifying 3D data for a patient with the 3D data including an outer layer and multiple inner layers, determining virtual morphometric measurements of the outer layer from the 3D data, registering a real-time position of the outer layer of the patient in a 3D space, determining real-time morphometric measurements of the outer layer of the patient, automatically registering the position of the outer layer from the 3D data to align with the registered real-time position of the outer layer of the patient in the 3D space using the virtual morphometric measurements and using the real-time morphometric measurements, and displaying, in an augmented reality (AR) headset, one of the inner layers from the 3D data projected onto real-time views of the outer layer of the patient.

Food intake monitor

Systems and methods for monitoring food intake include an air pressure sensor for detecting ear canal deformation, according to some implementations. For example, the air pressure sensor detects a change in air pressure in the ear canal resulting from mandible movement. Other implementations include systems and methods for monitoring food intake that include a temporalis muscle activity sensor for detecting temporalis muscle activity, wherein at least a portion of the temporalis muscle activity sensor is coupled adjacent a temple portion of eyeglasses and disposed between the temple tip and the frame end piece. The temporalis muscle activity sensor may include an accelerometer, for example, for detecting movement of the temple portion due to mandibular movement from chewing.

Systems and methods for detecting pulmonary abnormalities using lung sounds

Identification of pulmonary diseases involves accurate auscultation as well as elaborate and expensive pulmonary function tests. Also, there is a dependency on a reference signal from a flowmeter or need for labelled respiratory phases. The present disclosure provides extraction of frequency and time-frequency domain lung sound features such as spectral and spectrogram features respectively that enable classification of healthy and abnormal lung sounds without the dependencies of prior art. Furthermore extraction of wavelet and cepstral features improves accuracy of classification. The lung sound signals are pre-processed prior to feature extraction to eliminate heart sounds and reduce computational requirements while ensuring that information providing adequate discrimination between healthy and abnormal lung sounds is not lost.

OPIOID OVERDOSE MONITORING

An overdose of opioids can cause the user to stop breathing, resulting in death. A physiological monitoring system monitors respiration based on oxygen saturation readings from a fingertip pulse oximeter in communication with a smart mobile device and sends opioid monitoring information from the smart mobile device to an opioid overdose monitoring service. The opioid overdose monitoring service notifies a first set of contacts when the opioid monitoring information

Lung sound monitoring device and lung sound monitoring method thereof

A lung sound monitoring device is provided. The lung sound monitoring device includes an acoustic sensor and a processor. The acoustic sensor is configured to capture the chest cavity sound of a subject at a first monitoring position on the subject and convert the chest cavity sound into a first chest cavity sound signal. The processor is configured to receive the first chest cavity sound signal and perform a filter process to obtain a first lung sound signal, and convert the first lung sound signal into a first lung sound spectrum using time-domain frequency-domain conversion. The processor acquires a first intensity index according to the first lung sound spectrum, and outputs a prompt signal according to the first intensity index to indicate whether the first monitoring position is a qualified monitoring position.

INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD USING HEART AND LUNG SOUNDS

An information acquisition method using heart and lung sounds is provided. The information acquisition method includes acquiring, by a computer, heart sound measurement data of a specific patient in real time, acquiring, by the computer, at least one processed heart sound measurement data using the heart sound measurement data in real time, extracting, by the computer, a scale factor between the processed heart sound measurement data and a cardiovascular data value, and calculating and providing, by the computer, a calculated value of specific cardiovascular information data based on the processed heart sound measurement data and the scale factor, wherein the cardiovascular information data has the same variation tendency as a variation tendency of specific processed heart sound measurement data.