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US 10,758,177 B2Granted
Clinical fitting assistance using software analysis of stimuli
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorXerxes Battiwalla
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure identify and alert a clinician to physiological cues thereby aiding the clinician in providing a better fitting of a medical prosthesis. Physiological data of a recipient of a medical prosthesis is analyzed to identify triggers during fitting or other types of adjustments to the prosthesis. A determination is then made as to whether the identified triggers correspond to a feedback event. If the triggers correspond to a feedback event, an alert containing information about the feedback event is generated and displayed or otherwise made available to the clinician.
Claims23
A computer-implemented method for assisting a clinician fitting a prosthesis to a recipient, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a computing environment, video input from at least one video camera monitoring physiological reactions of a recipient while a clinician fits a prosthesis to the recipient;
- analyzing, using a processor of the computing environment, the video input to identify at least one physiological trigger of the recipient;
- determining, using the processor of the computing environment, a feedback event based on the at least one physiological trigger, wherein the feedback event includes video playback of the recipient performing the at least one physiological trigger and an indication highlighting the at least one physiological trigger;
- generating, using the processor of the computing environment, additional information about the feedback event, wherein the additional information comprises clinical instructions for how to adjust the prosthesis;
- determining, using the processor of the computing environment, whether to generate an alert;
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- based upon the determination, displaying at a user interface of the computing environment video playback of the recipient performing the physiological trigger, the indication highlighting the at least one physiological trigger, and the additional information to the clinician for use in adjusting the prosthesis, thereby assisting the clinician fitting the prosthesis to the recipient.
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A system comprising:
- at least one video camera configured to perform operations comprising:
- recording physiological data from a recipient;
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- sending the physiological data to a computing device;
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- the computing device comprising:
- at least one processor;
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- non-transitory computer storage media encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform a method comprising:
- receiving physiological data from the at least one video camera;
- analyzing the physiological data to identify at least one trigger associated with a problem with fitting a medical prosthesis to a recipient;
- determining a feedback event based on the at least one trigger, wherein the feedback event includes video playback of the recipient performing the at least one trigger and an indication highlighting the at least one trigger;
- determining additional information related to the feedback event, wherein the additional information comprises clinical instructions for how to adjust a prosthesis;
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- providing the feedback event and additional information related to the feedback event at a user interface of the computing device, wherein providing the feedback event includes providing the video playback of the recipient performing the at least one trigger and the indication highlighting the at least one trigger.
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A computer-implemented method for assisting a clinician fitting a prosthesis to a recipient, the method comprising:
- receiving, using a computing environment, visual input from at least one camera, the visual input associated with a recipient being fitted with a prosthesis by a clinician;
- analyzing, using the computing environment, the visual input to identify at least one physiological trigger of the recipient;
- determining, using the computing environment, a feedback event based on the at least one physiological trigger, wherein the feedback event includes visual input associated with the recipient performing the physiological trigger and an indication highlighting the at least one physiological trigger;
- generating, using the computing environment, additional information about the feedback event, wherein the additional information comprises clinical instructions for how to adjust the prosthesis;
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- displaying, using an output device of the computing environment, the additional information and the feedback event, including the visual input associated with the recipient performing the physiological trigger and the indication highlighting the at least one physiological trigger.
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A non-transitory computer storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform a method comprising:
- receiving visual input from at least one camera, the visual input associated with a recipient being fitted with a prosthesis by a clinician;
- analyzing the visual input to identify at least one physiological trigger of the recipient;
- determining a feedback event based on the at least one physiological trigger by associating the at least one physiological trigger to a stimulus applied to the recipient based on temporal proximity of the at least one physiological trigger and the stimulus, wherein the feedback event includes visual input associated with the recipient performing the physiological trigger and an indication highlighting the at least one physiological trigger;
- generating additional information about the feedback event, wherein the additional information comprises clinical instructions for how to adjust a prosthesis;
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- displaying the additional information and the feedback event, including the visual input associated with the recipient performing the physiological trigger and the indication highlighting the at least one physiological trigger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.