Post operative implantation site monitoring
AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorsRodolphe Katra, Amie Bucksa, Niranjan Chakravarthy
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Abstract
Techniques for remote monitoring of a patient and corresponding medical device(s) are described. The remote monitoring comprises determining identification data and identifying implantable medical device (IMD) information, initiating an imaging device and determining an imaging program, receiving one or more frames of image data including image(s) of an implantation site, identifying an abnormality at the implantation site, triggering a supplemental image capture mode, receiving one or more supplemental images of the implantation site, and outputting the one or more supplemental images of the implantation site.
Claims21
A method of monitoring an implantation site of a patient, the method comprising:
- determining, by a computing device, an imaging program that defines one or more parameters for imaging the implantation site;
- initiating, by the computing device, an imaging device, the imaging device including at least a camera of a mobile computing device and configured to capture, in accordance with the imaging program, image data of the implantation site;
- identifying, by the computing device, from the image data of the implantation site, an abnormality at the implantation site;
- automatically triggering, by the computing device and in response to identifying the abnormality, a supplemental image capture mode of the imaging device, wherein the imaging device, when operating in the supplemental image capture mode, is configured to capture one or more supplemental images of the implantation site;
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- outputting, via the computing device, the one or more supplemental images of the implantation site.
A system for monitoring an implantation site of a patient, the system comprising:
- a memory configured to store image data;
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- one or more processors in communication with the memory, the one or more processors configured to:
- determine an imaging program that defines one or more parameters for imaging the implantation site;
- initiate an imaging device, the imaging device including at least a camera of a mobile computing device and configured to capture, in accordance with the imaging program, image data of the implantation site;
- identify, from the image data of the implantation site, an abnormality at the implantation site;
- automatically trigger, in response to identifying the abnormality, a supplemental image capture mode of the imaging device, wherein the imaging device, when operating in the supplemental image capture mode, is configured to capture one or more supplemental images of the implantation site;
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- output the one or more supplemental images of the implantation site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.