System and method for assessing bowel health
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsKedar Anil Patwardhan, David Martin Mills, Jae Hong Kim
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Abstract
In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method includes receiving a plurality of images of an abdominal region from an image capture device. The method further includes identifying a bowel tissue and a peristaltic portion of the bowel tissue from the plurality of images. The method further includes determining a peristalsis property of the bowel tissue based on the peristaltic portion. The peristalsis property includes at least one of a percentage of the peristaltic portion within the bowel tissue and an amount of peristalsis in the peristaltic portion. The method also includes assessing a health the bowel tissue based on the peristalsis property of the peristaltic portion.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of images of an abdominal region from an image capture device;
- identifying a bowel tissue from at least one of the plurality of images;
- identifying a peristaltic portion of the bowel tissue from the plurality of images;
- determining a peristalsis property of the bowel tissue based on the peristaltic portion, wherein the peristalsis property includes at least one of a percentage of the peristaltic portion within the bowel tissue and an amount of peristalsis in the peristaltic portion;
- and
- assessing a health of the bowel tissue based on the peristalsis property of the peristaltic portion.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a communication module stored in a memory and executable by the at least one processor, the communication module configured to receive a plurality of images of an abdominal region from an image capture device;
- a detection module stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor, the detection module communicatively coupled to the communication module and configured to identify a bowel tissue from at least one of the plurality of images and identify a peristaltic portion of the bowel tissue from the plurality of images;
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- a scoring module stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor, the scoring module communicatively coupled to the detection module and configured to determine a peristalsis property of the bowel tissue based on the peristaltic portion and assess a health of the bowel tissue based on the peristalsis property, wherein peristalsis property includes at least one of a percentage of the peristaltic portion within the bowel tissue and an amount of peristalsis in the peristaltic portion.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoding instructions that, in response to execution by at least one processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a plurality of images of an abdominal region from an image capture device;
- identifying a bowel tissue from at least one of the plurality of images;
- identifying a peristaltic portion of the bowel tissue from the plurality of images;
- determining a peristalsis property of the bowel tissue based on the peristaltic portion, wherein the peristalsis property includes at least one of a percentage of the peristaltic portion within the bowel tissue and an amount of peristalsis in the peristaltic portion;
- and
- assessing a health of the bowel tissue based on the peristalsis property of the peristaltic portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.