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US 12,229,960 B2Granted
Systems and methods for diagnosing and/or monitoring disease
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorsGeorge W. Duval, John Allen Hingston
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Abstract
A method for evaluating a gastrointestinal tract may include characterizing one or more disease parameters using objective measures obtained from imaging data of a gastrointestinal tract. The one or more disease parameters reflect a measure of at least one of lesions, ulcers, bleeding, stenosis, and vasculature. The method may also include using the one or more characterized disease parameters to classify a disease state.
Claims19
A method for identifying a disease state of a gastrointestinal tract condition, the method comprising:
- receiving imaging data of a gastrointestinal tract of a patient, wherein the imaging data is obtained from an imaging device;
- receiving gastric activity data of the gastrointestinal tract, wherein the gastric activity data is generated by one or more sensors configured to generate one or more parameters of the gastric activity data;
- processing the imaging data and the gastric activity data to determine a plurality of disease parameter values for a plurality of disease parameters that are indicative of a disease state of a gastrointestinal tract condition;
- evaluating each of the plurality of disease parameters individually based on the plurality of disease parameter values;
- based on the evaluating, determining the disease state is not identifiable based on any one of the plurality of disease parameters alone;
- and
- in response to the disease state not being identifiable based on any one of the plurality of disease parameters alone:
- determining a disease state value based on at least a subset of the plurality of disease parameter values;
- comparing the disease state value to one or more threshold values, the one or more threshold values indicative of one or more boundaries between a plurality of disease states of the gastrointestinal tract condition;
- and
- identifying the disease state from the plurality of disease states based on the comparing.
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A method for identifying a disease state of a gastrointestinal tract condition, the method comprising:
- receiving imaging data of a gastrointestinal tract of a patient, wherein the imaging data is obtained from an imaging device;
- receiving gastric activity data of the gastrointestinal tract, wherein the gastric activity data is generated by one or more sensors configured to generate one or more parameters of the gastric activity data;
- processing the imaging data and the gastric activity data to determine a plurality of disease parameter values for a plurality of disease parameters that are indicative of a disease state of a gastrointestinal tract condition;
- based on the plurality of disease parameter values, determining the disease state is not identifiable based on any one of the plurality of disease parameters alone;
- and
- in response to the determination:
- determining a disease state value based on at least a subset of the plurality of disease parameter values;
- comparing the disease state value to one or more threshold values, the one or more threshold values indicative of one or more boundaries between a plurality of disease states of the gastrointestinal tract condition;
- and
- identifying the disease state from the plurality of disease states based on the comparing.
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A method for identifying a disease state of a gastrointestinal tract condition, the method comprising:
- receiving imaging data of a gastrointestinal tract of a patient, wherein the imaging data is obtained from an imaging device;
- receiving gastric activity data of the gastrointestinal tract, wherein the gastric activity data is generated by one or more sensors configured to generate one or more parameters of the gastric activity data;
- processing the imaging data and the gastric activity data to determine a plurality of disease parameter values for a plurality of disease parameters indicative of a disease state of a gastrointestinal tract condition;
- based on the plurality of disease parameter values, determining whether the disease state is identifiable based on any one of the plurality of disease parameters alone;
- when the disease state is determined to be identifiable based on at least one of the plurality of disease parameters, identifying the disease state from a plurality of disease states of the gastrointestinal tract condition based on a comparison of the respective disease parameter value for the at least one of the plurality of disease parameters to one or more first threshold values indicative of one or more boundaries between the plurality of disease states;
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- when the disease state is determined to not be identifiable based on any one of the plurality of disease parameters alone:
- determining a disease state value based on at least a subset of the plurality of disease parameter values;
- and
- identifying the disease state from the plurality of disease states based on a comparison of the disease state value to one or more second threshold values indicative of one or more boundaries between the plurality of disease states.
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