82 results about "Physical diagnosis" patented technology

A method for gathering medical information sorting it by statistically and medically based rules, and condensing it into a data set which enables medical providers to practice medicine in a more efficient manner. The medical information may be gathered from insurance billing records and patient responses to statistically-validated medical status questionnaires. The patient population may be a defined one, being composed of all patients in a group which is being treated by an individual medical provider or a group of providers at any particular time. The financial transactions to be monitored may be formatted electronically into one or more standard formats as well as medical diagnosis and medical procedure information which has been transmitted in standard codes. These data sets are gathered in electronic format by being copied from the feeder computer system into another computer which does the required rules-based data reduction.

Apparatus and a method are provided for improving the medical care of patients. The apparatus includes an input device, a medical risk database, a data processor, and a communication device. Data entered in the input device, usually by a health care professional, defines a patient data record. The medical risk database associates certain patient data entered into the data record, which increases the risk of a missed medical care opportunity, with additional medical care to address the risk. The communication device responds to the identification of patient data presenting a medical risk by communicating to a health care professional additional medical care selected to identify and take advantage of a medical care opportunity.

Devices, systems, methods, and software for providing remote medical diagnosis and therapy to a subject comprising: a module for conducting telecommunications with a telemedicalist; a module for applying a diagnostic or a therapeutic analysis; an apparatus for dispensing one or more medical items from an inventory of medical items, the inventory of medical items risk profiled to a subject, a population, a venue, or a situation; and optionally, a biosensor apparatus.

Described herein is a novel 3-D optical imaging system based on active stereo vision and motion tracking for to tracking the motion of patient and for registering the time-sequenced images of suspicious lesions recorded during endoscopic or colposcopic examinations. The system quantifies the acetic acid induced optical signals associated with early cancer development. The system includes at least one illuminating light source for generating light illuminating a portion of an object, at least one structured light source for projecting a structured light pattern on the portion of the object, at least one camera for imaging the portion of the object and the structured light pattern, and means for generating a quantitative measurement of an acetic acid-induced change of the portion of the object.

The present invention discloses a prediction model-building method for computer-aided medical diagnosis. It utilizes the medical symptom detection equipment to obtain the symptom of object to be diagnosed to form symptomatic vector, then utilizes the prediction model to make treatment so as to can obtain prediction result. It also provides its concrete steps for implementing said invented prediction model-building method.

The invention provides a pre-stack inversion thin layer oil / gas-bearing possibility identifying method. The pre-stack inversion thin layer oil / gas-bearing possibility identifying method comprises the following steps of: (1) constructing interpreting data and logging data by utilizing earthquake, and establishing an initial elastic parameter model based on a deposition mode; (2) obtaining an initial model and a model restrain range of random inversion through determination inversion based on a Baysian principle; (3) carrying out random sampling on three-parameter-related Monte Carlo simulationestablished by utilizing rock physical diagnosis and regression analysis so as to obtain a logging scale model; (4) calculating to obtain an elastic parameter model under an earthquake scale by utilizing a Hash in-Shtrikman boundary average method; (5) simulating forwards an angular domain pre-stack earthquake record and a actual earthquake record to calculate a cost function and calculate acceptance probability of the elastic parameter model, and determining a new logging scale elastic parameter model according to the acceptance probability; (6) iterating repeatedly the steps of (3), (4) and(5) and determining an optimal logging scale elastic parameter mode as a final result of earthquake three-parameter pre-stack inversion; and (7) carrying out thin layer oil / gas-bearing possibility identification of an oil reservoir by utilizing a three-parameter three-dimensional space intersection method.

A medical diagnosis system based on big data comprises a diagnosis and treatment scheme database.Information of the diagnosis and treatment scheme database and information of a patient inspection result are combined and transmitted to a prescription generation module.The prescription generation module transmits the information to a patient drug-use module.The patient drug-use module transmits the information to an information feedback module.The information feedback module transmits the information to the diagnosis and treatment scheme database.The patient inspection result can also be transmitted to a patient information base.The diagnosis and treatment scheme database and the patient information base transmit the information to a hospital information system.The big data technology is utilized for building the diagnosis and treatment scheme data, the prescription generation module can synthesize all inspection result data and automatically give out prescription or treatment schemes, drug effect conflicts or drug-use contraindication among drugs can be avoided, curative effect feedback information of a patient is included, communications between a doctor and the patient can be increased, more treatment reference information can be given to the doctor, the patient can go to the doctor conveniently, and medical accidents can be reduced.

A system and method for optimizing medical diagnosis, procedures and reimbursement claims using a structured search space is described. The system may comprise: a master procedure list of alphanumeric codes that represent each of a plurality of medical procedures, wherein the master procedure list includes simple procedures and compound procedures which consist of at least two simple procedures; a value associated with each of the plurality of medical procedures; a list of ordered procedures listing medical procedures for a specific medical encounter; a search tree of all possible combinations of the simple procedures and the compound procedures in the list of ordered procedures; and a minimum total of the values associated with the medical procedures in the list of ordered procedures.

The invention relates to a method for determining reserve volume of a nonhomogeneous sandstone reservoir. The method comprises the following steps of: obtaining original stratum conditional parameters of an oil reservoir, carrying out logging data liquid displacement to obtain a corresponding elastic parameter curve corresponding to saturated water of a reservoir; based on saturated water loggingcurve as well as shale content and porosity distribution function of the sandstone reservoir and a mudstone interlayer which are obtained by statistics, determining a rock physical model by utilizingrock physical diagnosis, and calculating relation between elastic parameter variation of the nonhomogeneous sandstone reservoir and water saturation and net gross ratio of the reservoir; calculating accumulated impedance attribute by utilizing earthquake impedance data, quantitatively interpretating effective sandstone thickness and oil-gas-bearing saturation of the reservoir by virtue of the built template, and producting to obtain the reserve volume of the oil reservoir. In the method provided by the invention, elastic parameter calculation in earthquake scale and plate establishment are carried out, and earthquake accumulated impedance attribute is utilized, thus quantitative evaluation on the net gross ratio and the saturation of the nonhomogeneous sandstone reservoir is realized, andthe aim of determining the reserve volume is achieved.

In a method and a device for positioning a patient in a medical diagnosis device or therapy device, an image-recording device records an image of the patient, which is displayed on a screen, and an image processor aids the positioning of the patient. At least one body region is automatically detected by the image processor, and a scan area is automatically suggested on the screen that covers the body region.

Apparatus and a method are provided for improving the medical care of patients. The apparatus includes an input device, a medical risk database, a data processor, and a communication device. Data entered in the input device, usually by a health care professional, defines a patient data record. The medical risk database associates certain patient data entered into the data record, which increases the risk of a missed medical care opportunity, with additional medical care to address the risk. The communication device responds to the identification of patient data presenting a medical risk by communicating to a health care professional additional medical care selected to identify and take advantage of a medical care opportunity.

A system includes a physical analysis module, a cyber analysis module, and a determination module. The physical analysis module is configured to obtain physical diagnostic information, and to determine physical analysis information using the physical diagnostic information. The cyber analysis module is configured to obtain cyber security data of the functional system, and to determine cyber analysis information using the cyber security data. The determination module is configured to obtain the physical analysis information and the cyber analysis information, and to determine a state of the functional system using the physical analysis information and the cyber analysis information. The state determined corresponds to at least one of physical condition or cyber security threat. The determination module is also configured to identify if the state corresponds to one or more of a non-malicious condition or a malicious condition.

A guide puncturing needle which is integratively used with a scanning and detecting device, such as CT, MRI or the like, and provides puncturing, biopsy, injection, implanting, and the physical diagnose and therapy, such as RF, microwave, freezing, laser and the like, and a puncturing guide method for applying the puncturing needle to puncture are provided. Since the guide puncturing needle is provided with a needle-entering angle guide means (2), a puncturing layer levelling component (31), a needle-entering reference line levelling component (32), whether the CT gantry and the MRI scanning layer are at any angle, the actual needle-entering layer is always adjusted to just superpose to the CT scanning layer, the actual needle-entering angle is always just the same as the needle-entering angle needed for the scanning and detecting device, thus allow the puncturing needle to arrive at the focus point exactly accurately.

A medical diagnosis support apparatus includes an item display unit which displays, on a display, a plurality of items for which a parameter for deriving diagnosis support information can be input, a temporary input unit which inputs a plurality of different values as temporary input values for the plurality of items displayed by the item display unit, a deriving unit which derives, by referring to medical information, a plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information each corresponding to one of combinations of the plurality of different temporary input values, and a presenting unit which presents, on the display, the plurality of pieces of diagnosis support information derived by the deriving unit, together with the display of the plurality of items, in a list format.

An expert system, in particular for medical diagnosis, includes a memory 2 for storing a plurality of hypotheses. The hypotheses are arranged in a first and second disjoint group of hypotheses. The memory stores questions for rejecting hypotheses of the second group. An output 3 is used for supplying questions to a user. A input 4 is used for receiving initial data and answers to questions. A processor 5 is programmed to select questions from the stored questions for those hypotheses from the second group that are possible in dependence on the initial data. The processor also determines from answer(s) received in response to outputting the selected questions whether at least one of the hypotheses of the second group is possible. In response to determining that no hypothesis of the second group is possible, the processor supplies a most likely hypothesis of the first group.

To improve patient comfort and reduce claustrophobia experienced by patients in a medical diagnosis or therapy apparatus, in particular a CT apparatus or an MR apparatus, with an examination region demarcated by said inner wall, in which examination region a patient can be positioned, a display is arranged in a region forming at least a portion of the inner wall.

The invention discloses a medical diagnosis system based on artificial intelligence, which combines traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and western medicine diagnosis, and is characterized in thatthe traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis simulates observation, listening, interrogation and pulse-taking in traditional Chinese medicine interrogation through an image recognition module, a speechrecognition module, a pulse sensor and an electronic nose, and carries out syndrome differentiation through a traditional Chinese medicine data processing unit by combining a differentiation theory soas to realize diagnosis for a patient and give a treatment scheme, and the western medicine diagnosis obtains disease information from the statement of the patient through the speech recognition module, determines the problem, gives a corresponding examination content list to enable the patient to carry out further examination, obtains a diagnosis result of the patient according to the examination results by combining the content in the database and gives a corresponding treatment scheme. The diagnosis system disclosed by the invention can enable the patients to choose traditional Chinese medicine treatment or western medicine treatment according to the needs, and the two treatment modes can simulate experts for accurate and reliable diagnosis, thereby saving valuable treatment time for the patients.

A medical diagnosis system wherein a medical image is produced in a medical diagnosis apparatus, comprises a first storage device which stores an examination procedure for the medical diagnosis apparatus, a second storage device which stores supply information, a supply device which supplies the supply information stored in the second storage device, and a control processor which controls that the supply information is supplied in the supply device in accordance with the examination procedure stored in the first storage device.

The invention discloses an apparatus and a method for voice assisted medical diagnosis. The apparatus includes a database, an input unit, a voice matching unit and a diagnosis unit. A voice model associated with an individual is stored in the database. The input unit receives a voice signal from the individual. The voice matching unit matches the voice signal with the voice model. The diagnosis unit diagnoses whether the individual suffers from one or a multiple of predetermined diseases according to a matching result from the voice matching unit.

The invention discloses a medical diagnosis system based on a BP neural network. The system comprises a diagnosis sample identification selection module, a sample information digital processing module, a constructed and trained BP neural network model module, a digitized processing patient information module, a continuous learning BP neural network module, and a neural network identification and diagnosis module. Through using the numerical reasoning and self-learning abilities of a BP neural network, a disease is analyzed and processed. Compared with a previous medical diagnosis method, the system of the invention has a high automation degree and diagnosis is reliable and accurate.

A system for medical diagnosis is provided. The system includes a gantry mounted on the base. The gantry has an annular support, which defines a cylindrical inner space. A detector head is fixed to the inner surface of the annular support. The annular support rotates along an axis of the inner space and is prevented from moving in horizontal and vertical direction and moving angularly. The system has a patient bed system, which is detachably attached to the base, and has a contact surface for supporting the patient. Pivot mechanism(s) and adjustable arm(s) enable the contact surface to have a plurality of configurations.

In order to assist medical personnel in the generation of a medical diagnosis, context-related criteria are automatically determined from available case-related primary information, and using these context-related criteria context-related secondary information is automatically filtered out from a secondary data source and is displayed in an information portal on a display element for further processing by medical personnel. Case-related secondary information that support the personnel in the generation of an applicable diagnosis of the current case thus are automatically provided to the medical personnel via this measure.

A billing method for diagnostic coding, documentation and billing for specialized medical practice in which the method comprises capturing a treatment event by accessing a host computer with a billing program having a plurality of prompt menu screens with data terms directed to a specialized medical practice with a remote device. The method has the steps of:(a) connecting a remote device to a host computer via the internet;(b) entering specific treatment event data terms selected from data terms shown on a prompt menu screens which correspond to a patient diagnosis to a host computer;(c) matching a selected treatment event data terms selected from a prompt menu screens to a specific billing code maintained in a database connected to a host computer;(d) generating information for computerized charge entry or creating an invoice for all of the collected selected data terms entered with predetermined standard code identifiers for a specific patient from a host computer; and(e) transmitting a completed invoice to a remote device.

An apparatus for use in voice assisted medical diagnosis including a database, an input unit, a voice matching unit and a diagnosis unit. A voice model associated with an individual is stored in the database. The input unit receives a voice signal from the individual. The voice matching unit matches the voice signal with the voice model. The diagnosis unit diagnoses whether the individual suffers from one or a multiple of predetermined diseases according to a matching result from the voice matching unit. The apparatus further includes a speech recognition unit, analyzing the individual's voice response to a plurality of predetermined questions to determine one or a multiple of medical conditions of the individual. The diagnosis unit diagnoses whether the individual suffers from one or a multiple of the predetermined diseases according to the matching result and the one or multiple of medical conditions of the individual.

The invention relates to a leg plate structure of a medical diagnosis and treatment bench, which comprises a seat plate fixing shaft with a positioning hole, a seat plate sleeve sheathed on the seat plate fixing shaft, a rotating connection structure and a plate body connected with the rotating connection structure, wherein the seat plate sleeve extends to form a gear body with a positioning groove, a positioning hole is coaxially matched with the seat plate positioning hole, a pressure spring and a moving pin matched with a button extended into the positioning hole are arranged in the seat plate positioning hole, the moving pin can be extended into the positioning hole to fix the seat plate fixing shaft and the seat plate sleeve, and the button can compress the moving pin to disengage the seat plate fixing shaft from the seat plate sleeve so as to form a structure that the seat plate sleeve can rotate around the seat plate fixing shaft within 180 degrees; and the gear body is rotatably mounted on the rotating connection structure, a spacing draw rod is provided with a raised part, a reset structure is arranged between the rotating connection structure and the spacing draw rod, and the raised part can be locked in the positioning groove by the reset structure so as to form a structure that the rotating connection structure can rotate around the seat plate sleeve and can be locked in the corresponding position. The invention has the advantages of high reliability and convenient operation, and can be rotated from 0 to 180 degrees in the horizontal plane.

To improve patient comfort and reduce claustrophobia experienced by patients in a medical diagnosis or therapy apparatus (2), in particular a CT apparatus or an MR apparatus, with an examination region (4) demarcated by said inner wall (6), in which examination region a patient (10) can be positioned, a display (12) is arranged in a region forming at least a portion of the inner wall (6).