Clinical Display Control Using Predicted Future Avatars
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing medical display systems do not effectively provide clinicians with predicted future health status and associated probabilities of patients, making it difficult to make informed clinical decisions.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for generating a display control signal that includes a predicted future avatar indicating future clinical parameters and their probabilities, allowing clinicians to assess future health states quickly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional medical display systems show only current clinical parameters, then the display is simple and easy to understand, but clinicians cannot assess future health states or predict patient deterioration
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into distinct visual components: current state avatar, predicted future avatar, and probability indicators. This segmentation allows multiple types of information (current status, future prediction, confidence level) to be presented simultaneously without creating a cluttered, difficult-to-read display. Each element serves a specific purpose and can be independently adjusted or hidden based on clinical needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension to the display by showing both current and future predicted states of the patient. The predicted future avatar represents a future time point, creating a time-based visualization that allows clinicians to assess patient trajectory. Probability information is encoded through visual parameters like transparency or size, adding another layer of information without requiring additional physical display space.
2Reliability
If detailed probability information is provided for predicted clinical parameters, then clinical decision-making is improved, but the display becomes more complex and harder to interpret quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses color and visual parameter changes to encode probability information. The predicted future avatar's visual properties (such as transparency, size, or color intensity) vary based on the predicted probability of the clinical parameter. This allows quantitative probability data to be conveyed through intuitive visual cues that clinicians can rapidly interpret without needing to read numerical values, thus maintaining ease of interpretation while providing detailed probability information.
3Loss of information
If multiple clinical parameters and their predictions are displayed, then comprehensive patient assessment is enabled, but the information overload makes it difficult to grasp key insights at a glance
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing of multiple clinical parameters through predictive algorithms, generating a synthesized predicted future avatar that encapsulates the overall patient trajectory. Instead of requiring clinicians to mentally integrate multiple separate parameter predictions, the system pre-computes and displays a unified visual representation of future patient state, allowing rapid assessment without information overload.
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AI summary
Proposed concepts thus aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods and systems pertaining to controlling a display. In particular, embodiments aim to provide a method for controlling a display by generating a display control signal which defines the display of a predicted future avatar of the subject. In this way, for example, a clinician can be provided with a display with which they can quickly assess a future state of the subject (predicted by an algorithm). Not only that, but by using at least one visual parameter of the predicted future avatar (e.g., size or transparency), a clinician can also be provided with the probability of the predicted future status of the subject at a glance.