Portable medical diagnostics device with integrated artificial intelligence capabilities
AssigneeAl Optics Inc.
InventorsLuke Michael Moretti, Andrew DiGiore
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Abstract
A handheld, portable devices with integrated artificial intelligence (AI) configured to assess a patient's body part to detect a disease and methods of operating such devices are disclosed. In some cases, a device can be a retina camera configured to assess a patient's retina and, by using an on-board AI retinal disease detection system, provide real-time analysis and diagnosis of the patient's retina. Easy and comfortable visualization of the patient's retina can be facilitated using such retina camera, which can be placed over the patient's eye, display the retina image on a high-resolution display, analyze a captured image by the on-board AI system, and provide determination of presence of a disease.
Claims21
A retina camera comprising:
- a housing comprising a body and a handle, the handle connected to the body and configured to be held by a user;
- a display at least partially supported by the housing;
- a light source supported by the housing, the light source configured to irradiate an eye of a patient with light;
- imaging optics supported by the housing, the imaging optics configured to receive light reflected by the eye;
- an image detector array configured to receive light from the imaging optics and to sense the received light;
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- an electronic processing circuitry supported by the housing, the electronic processing circuitry configured to:
- generate at least one image of the eye based on signals received from the image detector array;
- display the at least one image on the display;
- process the at least one image with a machine learning model to determine presence of at least one disease from a plurality of diseases that the machine learning model has been trained to identify;
- and
- provide a determination of the presence of the at least one disease on the display,
- wherein the electronic processing circuitry processes the at least one image and provides the determination of the presence of the at least one disease without requiring network connectivity.
A portable medical diagnostics instrument comprising:
- a housing comprising a body and a handle, the handle connected to the body and configured to be held by a user;
- a display at least partially supported by the housing;
- a light source supported by the housing, the light source configured to irradiate a body part of a patient with light;
- imaging optics supported by the housing, the imaging optics configured to receive light reflected by the body part;
- an image detector array configured to receive light from the imaging optics and to sense the received light;
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- an electronic processing circuitry supported by the housing, the electronic processing circuitry configured to:
- generate at least one image of the body part based on signals received from the image detector array;
- display the at least one image on the display;
- process the at least one image with a machine learning model to determine presence of at least one disease from a plurality of diseases that the machine learning model has been trained to identify;
- and
- provide a determination of the presence of the at least one disease on the display.
A method of diagnosing a patient using a portable medical diagnostics instrument, the method comprising:
- by an electronic processing circuitry of the portable medical diagnostics instrument:
- generating at least one image of a body part of a patient based on signals received from an image detector array of the portable medical diagnostics instrument responsive to sensing light reflected by the body part subsequent to irradiating the body part with light;
- displaying the at least one image on a display of the portable medical diagnostics instrument;
- processing the at least one image with a machine learning model to determine presence of at least one disease from a plurality of diseases that the machine learning model has been trained to identify;
- and
- providing a determination of the presence of the at least one disease on the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.