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US 12,424,307 B2Granted
Wound analysis device and method
AssigneeSmith & Nephew, Inc.
InventorsAllan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt, Marcus Damian Phillips
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Abstract
Embodiments of tissue monitoring and therapy systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a monitoring and therapy system comprises collecting video images of a tissue site, amplifying said video images via Eulerian Video Magnification, and determining a treatment parameter from the amplified video images detectable by Eulerian Video Magnification. If the treatment parameter differs from a threshold, an alert may be generated.
Claims20
A treatment device, comprising:
- a visualization sensor configured to be positioned over a tissue site, the visualization sensor configured to collect video data of the tissue site;
- and
- a controller configured to be in communication with the visualization sensor, the controller further configured to:
- amplify the video data by performing Eulerian video magnification;
- determine a treatment parameter from the amplified video data;
- cause adjustment of operation of a treatment source to provide treatment according to the treatment parameter;
- identify areas of skin tension from the amplified video data by calculating change values for individual regions of the tissue site;
- identify Langer's Lines in the tissue site from the areas of skin tension;
- and
- cause display of the Langer's Lines to assist with determination of a proposed incision site at the tissue site, wherein during the display, the controller is further configured to:
- monitor an actual incision site using the amplified video data;
- and
- provide an incision alert in response to determining that the actual incision is not aligned with the proposed incision site, the incision alert causing a physician to align the actual incision site with the proposed incision site so that healing time is decreased and scaring is reduced.
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A method of treating tissue, comprising:
- collecting, with a visualization sensor positioned over a tissue site, image data of the tissue site via the visualization sensor;
- amplifying the image data by performing Eulerian video magnification;
- determining a treatment parameter from the amplified image data;
- causing adjustment of operation of a treatment source to provide treatment according to the treatment parameter;
- identifying areas of skin tension from the amplified image data by calculating change values for individual regions of the tissue site;
- identifying Langer's Lines in the tissue site from the amplified image data of the areas of skin tension;
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- displaying the Langer's Lines to assist a surgeon with formation of an incision at the tissue site,
- wherein the method is performed under control of one or more processors.
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A treatment system, comprising:
- a visualization sensor configured to be positioned over a tissue site, the visualization sensor configured to collect image data of the tissue site;
- and
- a controller configured to be in communication with the visualization sensor and a treatment source, the controller further configured to:
- amplify the image data by performing Eulerian video magnification;
- determine a treatment parameter from the amplified image data;
- cause adjustment of operation of the treatment source in response to determining that the treatment parameter deviates from a threshold;
- identify areas of skin tension from the amplified image data by calculating change values for individual regions of the tissue site;
- identify Langer's Lines in the tissue site from the areas of skin tension;
- and
- cause display of the Langer's Lines to assist a surgeon with formation of an incision at the tissue site.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.