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US 2010/0166269 A1Published application
Automatic body silhouette matching for remote auscultation
OwnerBeth Logan, Jean-Manuel Van Thong +2inventors
InventorsBeth Logan, Jean-Manuel Van Thong, Rahul Sukthankar, Frank Bomba
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Abstract
A system provides a means to detect and track a patient silhouette which may be used to instruct him/her in positioning a medical sensing device on his/her chest with guidance from a computer or from a remotely located physician. The medical sensing device may be, for example a stethoscope or other device.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of silhouette templates having predefined placement locations marked for placing a medical device;
- a camera for capturing the image of a patient;
- means for selecting an appropriate one of the plurality of silhouette templates that best matches the image of the patient;
- and
- means for mapping the predefined placement locations from the selected silhouette template to the patient.
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A method, comprising:
- storing a plurality of silhouette templates with at least one predefined medical device placement location;
- capturing an image of a patient;
- matching the image of the patient to an appropriate silhouette template;
- and
- mapping the predefined medical device placement location to the patient.
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A system, comprising:
- a plurality of silhouette templates having at least one predefined placement location marked for placing a stethoscope;
- a camera for capturing the image of a patient;
- a computer to map the predefined placement location from one of the silhouette templates to the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.