Imaging Device Integrating Patient Vitals Data Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical imaging systems, such as X-ray devices, often lack the capability to capture and integrate patient vitals data in real-time during imaging procedures, leading to delayed and inaccurate diagnoses due to the separation of vital information from imaging data.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a communication interface and artificial intelligence models into X-ray machines to capture and combine imaging and non-imaging data, including vitals, patient history, and environmental information, forming a composite data set that can be processed for immediate clinical outcomes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If imaging data and non-imaging data are captured separately using different devices, then device complexity is reduced, but information completeness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate imaging devices and patient monitor devices into an integrated imaging system that captures both imaging data and non-imaging data (vitals, patient history, environmental information) through a unified platform with common hardware resources, thereby improving information completeness while managing device complexity
2Measurement precision
If imaging data and non-imaging data are processed separately, then processing simplicity is improved, but diagnostic accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate processing workflows into a unified processing pipeline that simultaneously handles imaging data and non-imaging data, using shared processors and memory resources to analyze both data types together, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy through integrated analysis while managing processing complexity through resource sharing
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite data structure that integrates imaging data, vitals data, patient history, and environmental information into a unified dataset, allowing comprehensive analysis that improves diagnostic accuracy while managing complexity through structured data organization
3Reliability
If imaging procedures are performed without real-time vitals monitoring, then equipment requirements are reduced, but clinical outcome quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges imaging capabilities with real-time vitals monitoring into a single integrated system, where the imaging device incorporates sensors and processing capabilities to simultaneously capture imaging data and physiological parameters, thereby improving clinical outcome quality while managing equipment requirements through consolidation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs the imaging device to perform multiple functions: capturing imaging data, monitoring vitals, storing patient history, and analyzing environmental information, thereby improving clinical outcome quality without requiring separate specialized equipment for each function
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AI summary
Apparatus, systems, and methods to capture and combine patient vitals and image data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an imaging device to capture imaging data of a patient; a patient monitor to capture non-imaging data of the patient; and a communication interface between the imaging device and the patient monitor to route the non-imaging data to the imaging device. The example imaging device is to combine the non-imaging data with the imaging data to form a combined data set to be processed to determine a clinical outcome.