Multi-parameter Physiological Mapping via Color Model Encoding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electrophysiological mapping techniques are limited in their ability to visualize and diagnose patient conditions effectively, as they typically encode a single parameter in a color model, failing to provide comprehensive information about multiple physiological parameters simultaneously.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize a multi-dimensional color model to encode and visualize multiple physiological parameters on a geometric surface, allowing different parameters to be represented by different color components, enabling the generation of a multi-parameter graphical map that displays various physiological parameters concurrently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional single-parameter encoding is used, then the mapping system is simple and easy to implement, but the diagnostic information completeness is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from single-parameter encoding to multi-parameter encoding by utilizing multiple color components (hue, saturation, value) as additional dimensions. Each physiological parameter is mapped to a different color component, enabling simultaneous visualization of multiple parameters in a single color-coded map without increasing temporal or spatial dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color model transformations and multi-component color encoding to represent multiple physiological parameters. By assigning different parameters to hue, saturation, and value components, the system extracts and visualizes more diagnostic information from the same visual medium, reducing information loss while maintaining manageable system complexity.
2Reliability
If multiple physiological parameters are encoded simultaneously, then the diagnostic capability is enhanced, but the color model encoding complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the color model into distinct components (hue, saturation, value) and assigns each physiological parameter to a specific component. This segmentation allows multiple parameters to be encoded independently without interfering with each other, enhancing diagnostic capability while keeping the encoding process systematic and manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the color model multi-functional by using its different components to represent multiple physiological parameters simultaneously. This universal approach allows a single color-coded map to serve multiple diagnostic purposes, enhancing reliability without requiring separate mapping systems for each parameter.
3Loss of information
If single parameter is visualized, then the visualization is simple and easy to interpret, but the comprehensive understanding of patient conditions is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds informational dimensions by utilizing multiple color components simultaneously. Instead of visualizing one parameter at a time, the system encodes multiple parameters in different color dimensions, providing comprehensive understanding of patient conditions while maintaining a single integrated visualization that can be interpreted through color analysis.
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AI summary
A map generator can be programmed to generate a multi-parameter graphical map by encoding at least two different physiological parameters for a geometric surface, corresponding to tissue of a patient, using different color components of a multi-dimensional color model such that each of the different physiological parameters is encoded by at least one of the different color components.