System and Method for Visualizing Sleep-Related Information

a technology for visualizing information and information related to sleep, applied in the field of health related disorders, can solve the problems of large data set, difficult to efficiently present a large data set to a busy health professional, and affecting the efficiency of diagnosis and treatmen

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-04-21
SOTOS JOHN GEORGE +1
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The resulting data set may be large.
Computers and digital data storage have, in many cases, reduced the need for paper in sleep studies, but the quantity of information resulting from a sleep study may still tax the patience of a busy health care professional who wants to rapidly assess the clinical implications of the data.
Efficiently presenting a large data set to a busy health professional can be challenging.
Tufte advocates graphical designs that “encourage the eye to compare different pieces of data,” but the relatively large vertical distance between some channel plots in this figure generally makes inter-channel comparisons less inviting.
However, in many cases the likelihood of a technical failure during a study also increases with the number of sensors used.
While potentially compact, this degree of data reduction may be associated with an undesirable loss of information in some applications.

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[0039]FIG. 3 shows a flow diagram of steps in communicating physiological information about a human or otherwise mammalian patient. In one method, in data collection step 310 a device may acquire physiological data from a patient who is sleeping (or attempting to sleep). The device may be a polysomnographic device or a reduced sensor device, e.g. as taught in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 094,911. In step 320 the data collected in step 310 may be converted to digital format, e.g. with an analog-to-digital converter.

[0040]In one method, optional step 330 may result in one or more processing transformations being applied to the digitized data provided from step 320. For example, audio data may be filtered, unusable portions of data may be identified and tagged, artifacts in the data may be removed, diagnoses may be made, and algorithmic transformations may be applied to the data. An example of an algorithmic transformation is computation of an envelope of an audio signal. Merely...

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A method for improved visualization of information related to the physiology of a sleeping patient is disclosed. Physiological information from the patient is obtained by a device, converted to digital format, and transformed into physiological data of two or more types. Physiological data of two or more types are combined into a compact graphical display representing data from all physiological data types.

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CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 095,154 filed Mar. 30, 2005 (as petitioned).[0002]This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent No. 60 / 557,735 filed Mar. 30, 2004, hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes.[0003]This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent No. 60 / 610,888 filed Sep. 18, 2004, hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]The present invention generally relates to ways of characterizing health related disorders. More particularly, the invention provides a system and method for visualizing information related to the sleep of an organism such as a mammal or human being. But it would be recognized that the invention has a much broader range of applicability such as applicability in situations where body position is a consideration.[0005]Several disorders of sleep are known, including but not limited to snoring, in...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06T11/20
CPCA61B5/04A61B5/08A61B5/4809A61B5/743A61B5/7445A61B7/003A61B5/4812A61B5/24
InventorSOTOS, JOHN GEORGEBRANSCUM, JR., JOHN LEYON
OwnerSOTOS JOHN GEORGE