An ingestion monitoring system (100) comprising: one or more acoustic transducers (102); an analogue to digital converter (208) arranged to convert electrical signals from the acoustic transducer to digital form; and a processor (210) arranged to process the digital signal to detect an ingestion event.

A feeding bottle includes a bottle enclosure defining a hollow bottle chamber, wherein the enclosure defines a feeding outlet at a first end and an attachment structure 26 at a second end. A bottom housing defines an instrument compartment extending between a closed exterior portion of the bottom housing and a separation surface within the bottom housing, wherein the bottom housing is configured for detachable connection to the attachment structure 26 of the bottle enclosure. A relief valve is positioned within the separation surface of the bottom housing. A pressure sensor is positioned adjacent the separation surface of the bottom housing and connected by a passageway to the instrument compartment in the bottom housing, wherein the pressure sensor is configured to detect changes of pressure in the bottle enclosure.

The present invention relates to systems for providing noninvasive cranial nerve stimulation and methods for using the same. The present invention administers therapy through electrodes that are noninvasively attached to one or more of a subject’s cranial nerve. The systems can be used to enhancing rehabilitation and recovery by improving neuroplasticity and coupling muscle training with feedback.

A swallowing simulation apparatus comprises a computer that stores swallowing simulation software that when executed results in an oral cavity model and a pseudo-food product which are analyzed in a swallowing simulation. The analysis is used to evaluate ease of eating and/or drinking.

Methods and apparatus for guiding medical care based on sensor data from the gastrointestinal tract are described utilizing an apparatus which can be used with enteral feeding. Generally, the apparatus includes an elongated body having a length configured for insertion into a stomach and at least one pair of electrodes located along the length of the elongated body and positionable for placement within the stomach. A controller in electrical communication with the at least one pair of electrodes is included and the control may also be configured to measure a conductivity or impedance between the pair of electrodes and to determine a gastric residual volume of the stomach based on the measured conductivity or impedance.

A living-body-mounted apparatus includes an apparatus main body, an electric-related attachment portion, and a flexible elongated member. The elongated member includes a living-body-side connector and an apparatus-main-body-side connector at a position midway through an electric cable thereof, and electrical conduction between the apparatus main body and the electric-related attachment portion is established while the connectors are connected. A condition of F1<F2 is satisfied, where F1 represents a minimum value of tensile load required for disconnection by moving the living-body-side connector and the apparatus-main-body-side connector relatively away from each other in a connected state and F2 represents a minimum value of tensile load required to detach the elongated member from the apparatus main body.

A system is disclosed that includes an intubating scope and image capture device configured to capture one or more images of an interior of a subject's throat during swallowing of bolus. The system also includes a computing device configured to receive the captured one or more images. The computing device is also configured to analyze the image(s) to measure an amount of tissue covered by bolus in the one or more images. Further, the computing device is configured to present information indicating the measure of the amount of tissue covered by bolus.

The purpose of the present invention is to obtain a biological information analysis device, a biological information analysis method, and a biological information analysis system that enable more accurate determination of a swallowing motion. In order to attain the purpose, this biological information analysis device has: a swallowing motion assessment unit which assesses a user's motion by analyzing distance information and sound information that are obtained by measuring the motion and sound of the pharynx region; and a display unit, wherein the swallowing motion assessment unit is configured to output a first swallowing motion position that is assessed by analyzing the distance information and a second swallowing motion position that is assessed by analyzing the sound information, and the display unit is configured to display the distance information, the sound information, and the first swallowing motion position and the second swallowing motion position outputted by the swallowing motion assessment unit.

The methods and apparatuses presented herein determine and/or improve the quality of one or more physiological assessment parameters, e.g., response-recovery rate, based on biometric signal(s) and/or motion signal(s) respectively output by one or more biometric and/or motion sensors. The disclosed methods and apparatuses also estimate a user's stride length based on a motion signal and a determined type of user motion, e.g., walking or running. The speed of the user may then be estimated based on the estimated stride length.

Parameters extracted from high definition manometric measurements of the pharynx and upper esophagus at preidentified locations and times are applied to a supervised learning machine trained using x-ray fluoroscopy data to provide diagnostic information comparable to that of x-ray fluoroscopy without radiation exposure.