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AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION AND MODIFICATION OF NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING VISUAL PROCESSING AND PERCEPTION CONDITIONS

In some embodiments, a display system comprising a head-mountable, augmented reality display is configured to perform a neurological analysis and to provide a perception aid based on an environmental trigger associated with the neurological condition. Performing the neurological analysis may include determining a reaction to a stimulus by receiving data from the one or more inwardly-directed sensors; and identifying a neurological condition associated with the reaction. In some embodiments, the perception aid may include a reminder, an alert, or virtual content that changes a property, e.g. a color, of a real object. The augmented reality display may be configured to display virtual content by outputting light with variable wavefront divergence, and to provide an accommodation-vergence mismatch of less than 0.5 diopters, including less than 0.25 diopters.

EARLY DETECTION OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
20230190158 · 2023-06-22 ·

Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide a non-invasive system to measure and integrate behavioral and cognitive features enabling early detection and progression tracking of degenerative disease. For example, a method of detecting neurodegenerative disease may comprise measuring functioning of at least one of the motor system, cognitive function, and brain activity of a subject during everyday life and analyzing the gathered at least one motor system data, cognitive function data, and brain activity data of the subject.

VOICE RECOGNITION BASED EVALUATION OF PARKINSON DISEASE CONDITION(S)
20230190177 · 2023-06-22 ·

Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a Parkinson disease (PD) condition or a progression thereof by using voice analysis, and for treating the PD condition. Evaluation of the PD condition or of the progression thereof may be performed instantly or over time by analyzing current voice samples of the PD subject and, optionally, historical voice samples that are stored in a data storage unit, determining pertinent voice characteristics of the PD subject based on the analysis of the voice samples, and evaluating the PD condition, or the progression thereof by comparing current voice characteristics to similar voice characteristics. Treating a PD condition may include, for example, adjusting a drug delivery parameter to a level that is treatment-wise beneficial, for example, in preventing or delaying the onset of “off” periods or shortening the duration of an “off” period, or ameliorating a Hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) symptom or another PD symptom.

TECHNIQUES FOR MULTIPLE WEARABLE DEVICES

Methods, systems, and devices for multiple wearable devices are described. A method may include receiving first physiological data associated with a user from a first wearable device worn at a first position on the user and second physiological data associated with the user from a second wearable device worn at a second position on the user. This method may include determining one or more physiological characteristics associated with the user based on a comparison of the first physiological data and the second physiological data and displaying an indication of the one or more physiological characteristics on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device.

Energy-efficient on-chip classifier for detecting physiological conditions

Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for an efficient hardware architecture to implement gradient boosted trees for detecting biological conditions. For example, a method of detecting a biological condition includes receiving, by a device, a plurality of physiological signals from a plurality of input channels of the device, selecting, based on a trained prediction model, one or more input channels from the plurality of input channels, converting the one or more physiological signals received from the one or more input channels to one or more digital physiological signals, identifying, by using the plurality of gradient boosted decision trees, the selected characteristic in the one or more digital physiological signals, and determining a presence of a physiological condition based on an addition of the output values obtained from the plurality of gradient boosted decision trees.

MOTION STABILIZATION BY A HANDHELD TOOL
20170348127 · 2017-12-07 ·

Systems and methods for tracking unintentional muscle movements of a user and stabilizing a handheld tool while it is being used by the user are described. The method may include detecting motion of a handle of the handheld tool manipulated by a user while the user is performing a task with a user-assistive device attached to an attachment arm of the handheld tool. Furthermore, the method may include storing the detected motion in a memory of the handheld tool as motion data. The method may also include controlling, based on the motion data, a motion-generating mechanism of the handheld tool that moves the attachment arm relative to the handle in a single degree of freedom in a direction of the detected motion of the handle.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING OR ASSESSING MOVEMENT DISORDERS OR OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS USING A STIMULATION SYSTEM

Electrical stimulation systems and methods for operation of the electrical stimulation system are described. The method includes directing electrical stimulation through the electrodes of the lead and monitoring movements of a hand positioned over an implantation site of an implantable control module of the electrical stimulation system using an accelerometer coupled to a processor of the implantable control module. Another method includes detecting, by a sensor, a plurality of taps of a body region of a patient over an implantation site of the implantable control module, identifying, by the processor of the implantable control module, an indicator, trigger, or marker based on the detected tapping, and performing an activity corresponding to the identified indicator, trigger, or marker.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
20170344706 · 2017-11-30 ·

Systems and methods for data compression which facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. The methods comprise performing the following operations by a computing device: generating Normalized Data (“ND”) from Original Data (“OD”) that defines a Normalized Waveform (“NW”) that is unitless and scaled from zero to one; processing ND to extract Micro-Movement Data (“MMD”) defining a Micro-Movement Waveform (“MMW”) comprising a plurality of MMD points; and generating compressed data comprising a stochastic signature of MMW. Each MMD point determined based on a value of a peak of NW and a value representing an average of all data point values between a first valley of NW immediately preceding the peak and a second valley of NW immediately following the peak. The stochastic signature is defined by empirically estimated values of at least one parameter representing a Probability Distribution Function (“PDF”) of a continuous family of PDFs.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE MOVEMENT OF A PART OF A HUMAN BODY

The movement of a part of human body, e.g. a limb, is monitored. The movement includes N iterated rotations in a plane. A sensing device is fixed to the limb and provides data indicative of the limb movement. These data are processed to generate a rotation signal. Then, portions of the rotation signal corresponding to each movement iteration are identified. To this purpose, a plurality of null-velocity instants is identified, wherein the angular velocity of the sensing device is null. Then, each null-velocity instant is classified as a candidate start/end time or a candidate peak time. Then, a start time, end time and peak time for each iteration are determined as a combination of two candidate start/end times and a candidate peak time that fulfils certain conditions on the values of the rotation signal in correspondence of candidate start/end times and candidate peak times.

METHOD OF TESTING AN INFANT AND SUITABLE DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE TEST METHOD

The invention relates to a method of testing an infant, comprising the following steps: displaying a target on a screen; detecting contact made by the infant with the screen inside and/or outside the target; calculating a success parameter on the basis of the contact detected; and recording the calculated success parameter in a memory.