Wearable Video Server for Automatic Medication Administration Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing healthcare monitoring systems require user effort to record medication administration, leading to incomplete data collection when users forget to do so, thus compromising user convenience and accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A method and server system that uses a wearable device to record videos of medication administration processes, employing detection and confirmation models to automatically identify medication-related objects and postures, determining whether medication has been administered without user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a monitoring device requires user effort to record medication administration, then the device complexity is reduced, but the reliability of health care data collection deteriorates when users forget to record
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring device automatically detects and records medication administration behavior without requiring user operation. The device captures images through its camera, processes them to detect medication-related objects and postures, and automatically determines whether medication was administered, making the system self-sufficient and eliminating dependency on user effort
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual recording operations with an automated image processing system. The mechanical action of a user pressing a record button is substituted by an automated detection system that uses image recognition algorithms to identify medication containers, pills, and administration postures, thereby eliminating the need for user intervention while maintaining data reliability
2Reliability
If automatic monitoring is implemented to eliminate user effort, then the reliability of data collection is improved, but the device complexity increases due to automated detection systems
Solution Approach 1:
The automated monitoring system is divided into distinct functional modules: an image acquisition module that captures images, an image processing module that detects objects and postures, and a determination module that concludes whether medication was administered. This segmentation allows each module to perform a specific function, making the overall complex system manageable and maintainable while achieving high reliability
3Ease of operation
If manual recording is required, then the ease of operation is improved, but the accuracy of medication administration monitoring deteriorates due to user forgetfulness
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides visual feedback by displaying detected medication-related objects and postures from captured images. This feedback mechanism allows users to verify that the system has correctly identified their medication administration behavior, ensuring measurement precision while maintaining ease of operation as the system works automatically in the background
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a server for determining whether medication has been administered, the server including: a transceiver receiving a video recorded by a wearable device; a memory storing a detection model and a confirmation model, wherein the detection model is trained to output whether each of preset targets appears in an image, and the confirmation model is trained to output whether medication has been administered, wherein the preset targets include an object related to a medicine or a medicine container and a posture related to medication administration; and one or more processors configured to detect the preset targets by inputting image frames of the video to the detection model and to determine whether medication has been administered by inputting confirmation model input data to the confirmation model, the confirmation model input data generated based on a detection result of the detection model.