487 results about "Body Regions" patented technology

A system comprises a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to display an image of a surgical environment. The image includes an information icon corresponding to an instrument in the surgical environment. The instructions further cause the system to display an image of a body part of a user. The image of the body part is used to interact with the information icon. The instructions further cause the system to receive a gesture of the body part, via a gesture-based input device registering movement of the body part, to cause the image of the body part to interact with the information icon. The instructions further cause the system to display an information menu in the image of the surgical environment based on the interaction between the image of the body part and the information icon.

According to an aspect, there is provided a personal care device (2) for performing a personal care operation on a subject, the personal care device (2) being configured to determine a location of the personal care device (2) on a body part of the subject. The personal care device (2) comprises an orientation sensor (6) configured to measure a three-dimensional, 3D, angular orientation of the personal care device (2) relative to Earth's gravity over time and output a corresponding orientation measurement signal; a surface-displacement sensor (10) configured to measure a two-dimensional, 2D, displacement of the personal care device (2) relative to a skin surface of the body part and output a corresponding surface-displacement measurement signal; a processing unit (22) configured to determine the location of the personal care device (2) on the body part based on the orientation measurement signal, the surface-displacement measurement signal and a skin contact signal indicating whether the personal care device (2) is in contact with the skin surface of the body part.

The invention provides an AR-assisted acupoint dynamic positioning method and system based on biological characteristics, and relates to the technical field of medical assistance, and the method comprises the steps: building a three-dimensional body model based on the body shape point cloud data, collected in real time, of a current user, and calculating the theoretical coordinates of acupoints in combination with a traditional Chinese medicine acupoint positioning rule; dynamically calibrating the theoretical coordinates on the basis of synchronously acquired body surface conductivity change characteristics and body surface temperature distribution characteristics of the to-be-acupunctured body area of the current user, and generating acupuncture point coordinates and corresponding needle inserting parameters; the acupuncture point coordinates are mapped to the body part of the current user, visual acupuncture point marks are displayed in real time through AR equipment, and operation guidance related to the needle inserting parameters is synchronously provided; when it is detected that the body position change of the user exceeds the preset threshold value, the above steps are executed again, and the acupoint coordinates and the operation guidance are updated, and through multi-modal biological feature fusion, dynamic calibration and AR visualization interaction, acupoint positioning is precise, dynamic and visualized.

An interactive pain management system is provided comprising a laser treatment device and an application executing on the device that receives entry of identification information for a first patient and receives entry of a body region to receive treatment. The system also receives entry of a present pain level experienced in the body region, accesses stored information describing previously reported conditions of the first patient and based on the received entries and the accessed store information, determines a treatment regimen for the first patient. The laser treatment device executes the treatment regimen by manual administration by the first patient or a qualified technician. The system requests entry of the first patient's present condition, the condition comprising one of feeling worse, feeling better, and experiencing no change since an immediately previous treatment. Changes in the condition of the first patient are incorporated into the determination of the treatment regimen.

In some examples, a capture assembly configured to remove material of interest, including blood clots, from a body region, including but not limited to the circulatory system, includes a body configured to receive the material of interest. The body can be configured to axially lengthen and shorten.

Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for localization of a region within a patient's body using markers implanted within the region. In an exemplary embodiment, a probe includes a distal end for placement against a surface of the region; one or more antennas for transmitting electromagnetic signals into and receiving reflected signals from the region; a light source for delivering light pulses into the region whereupon the markers modulate reflected signals. A processor of the probe processes the modulated reflected signals at one or more of the surface locations to determine marker locations within the region to obtain a reference frame, determine distance values corresponding to distances from the respective markers to the distal end at each of the surface locations, and determine coordinates of the surface locations relative to the reference frame to generate a three dimensional model of the body region.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for medical condition identification. One of the methods includes obtaining visual data representing at least one body part of a subject; obtaining non-visual data that corresponds to one or more biological characteristics of the subject; providing data representing (i) the visual data and (ii) the non-visual data to one or more machine learning models, wherein the one or more machine learning models are trained to predict presence of a medical condition; obtaining an output of the one or more machine learning models that is generated based on the one or more machine learning models processing the visual data and the non-visual data; and determining presence of the medical condition for the subject using the output of the one or more machine learning models.

A wearable system is disclosed. The wearable system comprising: a wearable element designed to be worn on a body region of a subject; an array of sensors arranged at specified locations, attached to the wearable element and partially covering the wearable element; and a detection module in communication with each of said sensors in the array and configured to determine an impact event, based on at least one signal generated by at least one of said sensors, such that, the specified locations are determined such that an impact event at any location in the wearable element will generate at least one signal at at least one sensor from the array of sensors.

A system for monitoring body movement, comprising an inertial motion sensing unit arranged to measure movement of a body part, the sensing unit arranged to iteratively collect data representing movement of the body part over time; and a processor for receiving and analysing the data to determine risk of injury of the body part and / or to track the movement of the body part.

In combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field, treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. A magnetic field generating device is placed proximate to a body region of the patient. The magnetic field generating device generates a time-varying magnetic field with a magnetic flux density in a range of 0.5 to 7 Tesla. The time-varying magnetic field is applied to the body region of the patient in order to cause a contraction of a muscle within the body region. A second therapy may be used by applying one or more of optical waves, radio frequency waves, mechanical waves, negative or positive pressure or heat to the body region of the patient.

A system for reducing the physiologic strain on a surgeon and for reducing turn around time between patient surgical procedures, wherein said surgical procedures are performed successively on patients who are each disposed upon a surgical bed, by providing the ability to repeatably locate and orient surgical assistive features and patient body portions such that surgeon is presented with similar location of surgical assistive features and patient body portions from one surgical procedure to the next. Patient head location may adjusted by inflatable bladders. Patient head rotation, surgeon stool height, operating bed height, wrist rest height and other surgical assistive features are quickly adjustable so as to be repeatable from one surgical procedure to the next. Surgeon fatigue and turn around time between surgical procedures are reduced. The adjustments may be computer-controlled for repeatability and accuracy.

A system for determining, the pressure beneath a compression garment applied around a circumference of a body part, comprises an imaging device to produce image data representing a part of the garment at a measured location and a processing device, arranged to analyse the image data. The processing device uses the data to determine the circumference of the body part at the measured location and a tension in the part of the garment and thus derives a value for the pressure based on the circumference and tension.

Methods and systems are described for recognizing and delineating an object of interest in imaging data. Artificial intelligence and natural intelligence may be combined through a plurality of models configured to locate a body region, trim imaging data, perform fuzzy object recognition, detect boundary areas, modify the fuzzy object models using the boundary areas, and delineate the objects.

The invention relates to a medical insertion system with an insertion device for inserting a medical device attached to the insertion device into a body region of a patient, wherein the insertion device has at least one force sensor for detecting a force transmitted from the medical device to the insertion device in a measuring direction, the insertion system having an evaluation unit for evaluating a force signal which is emitted by the force sensor and represents the force detected by the force sensor.

Various examples are provided related to identification of anthropometric information for fitting of compression garments. In one example, a method of generating compression garment fit information includes acquiring images including a selected body part or body area in need of compression therapy; processing the acquired images along with a library of compression garment fit information; generating a 3D reconstruction of the selected body part / area; deriving anthropometric information for the selected body part / area from the 3D reconstruction; providing a compression value corresponding to a prescribed or intended amount of compression therapy applied to the selected body part / area; and generating compression garment fit information for the selected body part / area. In another example, a library of compression garment fit information includes anthropometric information generated for individuals in need of compression therapy; information associated with a health condition for the individuals; and compression garment fit instructions provided by a compression garment manufacturer.

A surgical method includes, for example, tracking, via at least one camera attached to a robotic arm of a surgical robot, a surgical site of a patient, the robotic arm having a plurality of joints and a plurality of body parts, controlling the robotic arm to perform a surgical procedure at the surgical site of the patient based on the camera tracked surgical site of the patient, and wherein the tracking comprises controlling the movement of the plurality of joints and body parts of the robotic arm to maintain a line of sight of the at least one camera directed towards the surgical site of the patient.

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods, computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: detecting, by machine logic, an event in a patient environment, wherein the event includes a body part of a patient moving to a location within a threshold distance of a point of interest, the point of interest being a location in the patient environment which if subject to contact by the body part poses risk to the patient; determining, by machine logic, one or more action to perform to control movement of the body part in response to the detecting the event in the patient environment; performing the one or more action to control movement of the body part in response to the detecting the event in the patient environment.

System and method for measuring hypertension conditions of a subject is disclosed. The disclosed system and method includes thermal sensors for capturing thermal images and / or videos of a body part; and a processing engine to detect a predefined region of the body part in each frame of the captured images and / or videos. The processing engine segments one or more portions from the detected predefined region in each frame of the captured images and / or videos to identify a region of interest comprising arteries in the one or more segmented portions. Based on the identified region of interest, the engine extracts pixel values from each frame of the captured images and / or videos to determine parameters associated with a blood flow velocity and a blood pressure of the subject. Further a type of hypertension and a risk score for the hypertension condition based on the determined parameters using computational models are measured.

The disclosed method may include receiving neuromuscular activity data over a first time series from a first sensor on a wearable device donned by a user receiving ground truth data over a second time series from a second sensor that indicates a body part state of a body part of the user, generating one or more training datasets by time-shifting at least a portion of the neuromuscular activity data over the first time series relative to the second time series, to associate the neuromuscular activity data with at least a portion of the ground truth data, and training one or more inferential models based on the one or more training datasets. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.

A determination control apparatus that functions as an action determination apparatus including a detection unit performing detection processing for detecting N types of body parts (N≥3), the body parts including a first type, of a subject in an image, and a selection unit configured to select one of a plurality of machine learning models for determining an action of the subject, based on a result of the detection processing. The plurality of learning models includes a first machine learning model to perform inference relating to the action based on a positional relationship of the N types of body parts, including the first type of body part and a second model to perform inference relating to the action based on a positional relationship of M types of body parts (N>M≥2) not including the first type of body part, among the N types of body parts.

An apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: obtain a first image including one or more faces captured at a first time by one or more cameras, each of the one or more faces corresponding to a person, among one or more persons; detect a first person, among the one or more persons, by performing facial recognition operation on the one or more faces in the image obtained from the camera; detect a body region corresponding to a face region of the first person; track the body region in a second image captured by the one or more cameras at a second time subsequent to the first time; and output information to control a bather to open based on a determination that the body region is approaching the barrier.

A computer-implemented method, computing device, system and computer program product for assisting positioning of a tool (5) with respect to a specific body part (202) of a patient (200) comprising: receiving intraoperative imaging data (ID) comprising 2D images capturing the specific body part (202) from a plurality of perspectives and 2D image(s) capturing at least a part of the tool (5) from at least one perspective; reconstructing an anatomical 3D shape (AS) of the specific body part (202) using an artificial-intelligence based algorithm corresponding to the specific body part (202) based on the intraoperative imaging data (ID) and data indicative of perspectives of 2D images; estimating a current position (5c) of the tool (5) with respect to the anatomical 3D shape (AS) based on the intraoperative imaging data (ID); and generating positioning guidance data (GD) comprising the estimated current position (5c) of the

Provided herein are systems, devices, and methods for supporting a patient undergoing a medical procedure that involves treatment of any or all sides of the body (e.g., posterior, anterior, and / or lateral sides of the patient's body or body parts). For example, the systems, devices, and methods facilitate surgical procedures without requiring placing a patient in a prone or lateral position and / or minimizing or avoiding transitioning a patient between supine, prone, and / or lateral positions.

A system, including an image sensor configured to acquire a plurality of images of a body part of a patient; and processing circuitry configured to receive the images of the body part of the patient and depth data including depth values corresponding to pixels of each image of the body part of the patient, isolate a foreground region of interest including the body part of the patient in the plurality of images, determine image sensor poses in three-dimensional space based on depth data, the depth data including depth values corresponding to pixels of each image of the body part of the patient, generate a combined point cloud of pixels corresponding to the foreground region of interest based on the depth data and the image sensor poses, and generate a mesh surface of the body part of the patient.

A device for stimulating body regions of a user, in particular for electrical muscle stimulation training. The device comprises an article of clothing made of an elastic textile structure with integrated electrodes and integrated electrical supply lines leading to the electrodes, as well as a local control unit for power supply and control. For trouble-free operation of the device, it must be ensured that the control unit is securely connected to the electrodes of the article of clothing during training. For this purpose, the article of clothing has a closable receiver, in particular a pocket, for receiving the control unit. A contacting unit, via which the control unit can be connected to the electrodes, is provided in the interior of the receiver.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying a health disorder based on a temperature asymmetry estimation. A system may include a thermal camera configured to detect thermal images of an inspected body part and a reference body part, which may be contralateral to the inspected body part. The system may further include an optical camera configured to detect optical images of the inspected body part and the reference body part. The system may further include a remote mobile device having a mobile processor programmed to control the thermal camera to detect the thermal images and the optical camera to detect the optical images. The system may further include remote server having a diagnostic processor programmed to determine that a functional disorder or inflammation of the inspected body part has occurred by analyzing the thermal images and the optical images.

Described is a medical dressing for application onto a body part, wherein the medical dressing has a longitudinal (y) extension and a lateral (x) extension and is symmetric about a longitudinal (y) center line and asymmetric about a lateral (x) center line. The dressing has at least a first, centrally disposed release liner comprising at least one graphical icon indicating a correct application of the medical dressing onto the body part. Also described is a method for manufacturing the medical dressing, to a sterile package that includes the medical dressing and to a multi-pack that includes a plurality of the sterile packages.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional human body grid estimation method and system based on clothes scissors and a human body vision model. The method comprises the following steps: extracting a first human body image containing clothes from an image to be reconstructed; identifying a boundary between a costume area and a body area in the first human body image, and removing the costume area from the first human body image to obtain a second human body image; the second human body image is input into a three-dimensional human body grid estimation module, and the three-dimensional human body grid estimation module is used for extracting three key intermediate representations including joint information, depth information and contour information from the second human body image; and aligning the intermediate representation of the preliminarily generated three-dimensional human body grid with the intermediate representation extracted from the second human body image, minimizing the difference between the intermediate representation and the intermediate representation, and finally outputting a high-precision three-dimensional human body grid. According to the method, the stability of the algorithm under the complex clothing condition can be improved, and the high fidelity of the reconstructed grid is ensured.

A tremor suppression device includes a garment wearable on an anatomical region and including electrodes contacting the anatomical region when the garment is worn on the anatomical region, and an electronic controller configured to: detect electromyography (EMG) signals as a function of anatomical location and time using the electrodes; identify tremors as a function of anatomical location and time based on the EMG signals; and apply neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) at one or more anatomical locations as a function of time using the electrodes to suppress the identified tremors.