CBT-I Treatment System Using Biosignal Data for Personalized Insomnia Therapy

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current insomnia treatments, including drug therapies and traditional Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), face challenges such as side effects, compliance issues, and the need for frequent hospital visits, as well as a lack of personalized approaches.

Innovation Solution

A CBT-I treatment system comprising a server that utilizes biosignal data from patients to tailor therapy programs, including EEG, ECG, EMG, and PPG signals, to generate personalized prescriptions, which can be transmitted to patients' terminals, allowing remote treatment and feedback loops with experts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional CBT-I treatment is implemented with 4-8 hospital visits, then treatment effectiveness is improved, but patient compliance deteriorates and time cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetreatment effectivenessVSAvoidpatient compliance
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables patients to perform self-monitoring of sleep parameters using wearable devices and mobile applications, eliminating the need for frequent hospital visits while maintaining treatment effectiveness through automated data collection and AI-driven personalized program adjustment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of in-person hospital visits with an automated digital system comprising wearable biosensors, mobile applications, and AI algorithms that deliver personalized CBT-I programs remotely, thereby improving compliance while maintaining treatment reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of manufacture

If uniform CBT-I programs are applied to all patients, then treatment standardization is improved, but individual patient characteristics are not reflected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetreatment standardizationVSAvoidpersonalization
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts standardized CBT-I programs by using AI algorithms to process individual patient biosignal data and lifestyle information, automatically adjusting treatment parameters and content to match each patient's specific characteristics while maintaining the structural framework of standardized therapy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes treatment parameters based on individual patient data including age, gender, sleep habits, and biosignals, allowing the standardized CBT-I program to be customized for each patient through automated adjustment of therapy intensity, duration, and specific intervention strategies

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If drug treatment is used for long-term insomnia management, then symptom relief is improved, but side effects increase and long-term use becomes problematic

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesymptom reliefVSAvoidside effects
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system converts the harm of long-term drug dependency into benefit by providing an effective non-pharmacological alternative that addresses the root causes of insomnia through behavioral modification, while using AI to optimize treatment efficiency to match or exceed drug therapy outcomes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentUS20230165527A1CBT-i treatment system and operation method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.06.01 HONEYNAPS CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed are a CBT-I treatment system for the treatment of insomnia and an operation method thereof. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a CBT-I treatment server including a database configured to store a plurality of CBT-I programs for insomnia treatment; a sleep evaluator configured to generate sleep evaluation data of an insomnia patient based on biosignal data including a change in a biosignal during sleep of the insomnia patient; a CBT-I prescriber configured to determine a CBT-I program for insomnia treatment of the insomnia patient from among the plural CBT-I programs based on the sleep evaluation data and to generate a CBT-I prescription including the determined CBT-I program; and a communicator configured to receive a biosignal from a biosignal collection device for generating biosignal data by sensing a change in a biosignal during sleep of the insomnia patient and to transmit the CBT-I prescription to an insomnia patient's terminal is provided.