323 results about "Occlusion detection" patented technology

A piston-type infusion pump is provided having an improved method of occlusion detection. The infusion pump includes processing circuitry for controlling the drive mechanism to infuse medication to a patient, including a sensor to track the position of the syringe plunger, thereby metering the amount of medication dispensed to the patient. The processing circuitry also includes a force sensor for providing signals indicative of the presence of occlusions along the infusion path. The operation of the drive mechanism causes delivery of medication to the patient. The infusion pump is constructed to be watertight.

A menu driven reprogrammable drug pump is provided with a memory, such as flash memory, a display, a keyboard, and a communications port to allow a generic pump to be programmed with a desired pump application (therapy) program and patient specific settings. Programming and data transfer with another pump or a computer to and from the patient pump is by the communications port that allows local and/or remote communications with the pump. Flash memory stores the pump application program during use. Patient safety is provided by a cassette identification system, an occlusion detection system, and a latch/lock detection system. Automated testing of the pump is by a closed loop testing system.

A menu driven reprogrammable drug pump is provided with a memory, such as flash memory, a display, a keyboard, and a communications port to allow a generic pump to be programmed with a desired pump application (therapy) program and patient specific settings. Programming and data transfer with another pump or a computer to and from the patient pump is by the communications port that allows local and/or remote communications with the pump. Flash memory stores the pump application program during use. Patient safety is provided by a cassette identification system, an occlusion detection system, and a latch/lock detection system. Automated testing of the pump is by a closed loop testing system.

Apparatus are provided for motor control systems and related medical devices. In one embodiment, a control system includes a motor having a rotor, a modulation module coupled to the motor, and a control module coupled to the modulation module. The modulation module generates a modulated voltage that is applied to the motor and rotates the rotor to deliver fluid via a fluid path. The control module adjusts a duty cycle of the modulated voltage to achieve a commanded rotation of the rotor and detects an occlusion condition in the fluid path based on the duty cycle.

An occlusion detection system and method include a decomposer configured to decompose an image into a set of hierarchical parts. A hierarchy of classifiers is employed to detect features in the image and the hierarchical parts. A logical operation is configured to logically combine a classification result from at least two of the classifiers to detect an occlusion state of the image.

The invention discloses a camera lens occlusion detecting system and method. The system comprises an image collection module, an image pre-processing module, a background establish module, a high-frequency component extraction module, a generalized image establish module, a suspected occlusion area detection module and an occlusion area determining module, wherein the background establish module is used for acquiring a smooth background image; the high-frequency component extraction module differentiates an initial image and the background image to acquire a high-frequency component distribution graph; the generalized image establish module combines an enhanced image and a pre-processed initial image to establish a generalized image, and performs edge extraction on the generalized image and the generalized image is convolved; the suspected occlusion area detection module compares a convolution result with a preset threshold, and determines that the suspected occlusion area is a candidate occlusion area if the convolution result is less than the preset threshold; and the occlusion area determining module traces the subsequent image pixel value of the suspected occlusion area, and determines that the suspected occlusion area is an occlusion area finally if brightness variations of all the pixels in the area are less than the preset threshold. By using the system and the method, whether the lens is occluded or not can be effectively judged.

A method of monitoring pressure inside a fluid line and a system for implementing the method. The method is applicable to syringe pump systems. The method includes the steps of measuring a force value caused by a pressure inside the fluid line; collecting the measured force values during at least two consecutive moving time windows; calculating a slope of a best-fit line within each time window; calculating a slope difference of the slopes of the best-fit lines; comparing the slope difference with a pre-determined threshold gradient value; defining a baseline force as the detected force value when the slope difference is equal to the threshold gradient value; determining a relative force value by subtracting the baseline force from the detected force value; and, triggering an alarm if the relative force is greater than a pre-defined threshold force

A occlusion detector for a dual-port surgical tourniquet system comprises: a tourniquet cuff for encircling a patient's limb and including an inflatable portion that communicates pneumatically with a first cuff port and that communicates pneumatically with a second cuff port independently of the first cuff port; a tourniquet instrument that is releasably connectable to the first and second cuff ports to establish first and second pneumatic passageways between the tourniquet cuff and the tourniquet instrument, wherein the tourniquet instrument includes pressure sensing means communicating with the first pneumatic passageway for producing an indication of the pressure in the cuff over a time period suitably long for the performance of a surgical procedure, pressure regulation means communicating with the second pneumatic passageway for regulating the pressure in the cuff near a reference pressure level, and an occlusion detector for introducing a pneumatic pressure pulse into the first pneumatic passageway during an occlusion detection time period, for monitoring the pressure in the second pneumatic passageway during the occlusion detection time period, and for producing an occlusion alarm if a fluctuation of pressure in the second pneumatic passageway is not detected within the occlusion detection time period.

Systems and methods for efficiently reformatting video data in regions of video including occlusions are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes determining multiple motion vectors that link/relate matching blocks of two reference frames and calculating a measure related to overlap area of the matching blocks in one or both of the reference frames with a block to be constructed in an intermediate frame. The measure related to overlap area takes into account a particular interpolation phase of the frame being constructed in relation to the two reference frames. In one embodiment, a ranking of the measure related to overlap areas is used to classify the block to be constructed according to a degree of occlusion. In another aspect the location of the matching blocks in one or both of the reference frames is used in the classification of the block to be constructed.

The invention provides a target tracking algorithm based on the self-adaptive particle filter and sparse representation. According to the target tracking algorithm based on the self-adaptive particle filter and the sparse representation, the improved self-adaptive particle filter technique is adopted to serve as a tracking algorithm framework, a block sparse representation model is used for establishing an observation similarity model of a target, partitioning of the target is achieved by means of the self-adaptive partitioning technique, a structural sparse column diagram of a current target state is constructed to calculate the observation similarity of the current target state, blocking is detected by means of a blocking detection mechanism, a target / background dictionary template and a target template column diagram are updated to capture the change of the appearance of the target and the change of the environment during tracking, L1 optimization in the sparse representation is achieved by means of the variable-direction multiplicator method, and then the execution speed of the target tracking algorithm is increased. The target tracking algorithm based on the self-adaptive particle filter and the sparse representation has the advantage that the robustness to the conditions of the posture change of the tracking target, the change of the environment and lighting and blocking is strong.