System and method for target muscle glycogen score determination and evaluation

A non-invasive method of determining a target glycogen score value for a target muscle, comprising:

• receiving an ultrasound scan of a target muscle, the ultrasound scan having a plurality of data elements;
• for the received ultrasound scan, a computing system with a processor;
• selecting at least a portion of the ultrasound scan;
• defining a plurality of subsets of the ultrasound data elements within the selected portion, each subset of ultrasound data elements having at least one attribute indicative of water concentration within the muscle tissue;
• quantifying each attribute as a value within a range of glycogen concentration values from zero percent concentration to one hundred percent concentration, based on a pre-established glycogen concentration scale that correlates the attribute to a glycogen concentration value to determine a glycogen store value for each subset;
• recording the determined glycogen store value for the muscle as an element of a glycogen value data set for the muscle;
• evaluating the glycogen value data set to determine a glycogen store value range for the target muscle;
• and
• in response to the range being at least above a pre-determined threshold, establishing a target glycogen score for the muscle as based on an upper portion of the value range.

A non-transitory machine readable medium on which is stored a computer program for a non-invasive method of determining a target glycogen score value for a target muscle, the computer program comprising instructions which when executed by a computer system having at least one processor performs the steps of:

• receiving an ultrasound scan of a target muscle, the ultrasound scan having a plurality of data elements;
• selecting at least a portion of the ultrasound scan;
• defining a plurality of subsets of the ultrasound data elements within the selected portion, each subset of ultrasound data elements having at least one attribute indicative of water concentration within the muscle tissue;
• quantifying each attribute as a value within a range of glycogen concentration values from zero percent concentration to one hundred percent concentration, based on a pre-established glycogen concentration scale that correlates the attribute to a glycogen concentration value to determine a glycogen store value for each subset;
• recording the determined glycogen store value for the muscle as an element of a glycogen value data set for the muscle;
• evaluating the glycogen value data set to determine a glycogen store value range for the target muscle;
• and
• in response to the range being at least above a pre-determined threshold, establishing a target glycogen score for the muscle as based on an upper portion of the value range.

A system for non-invasive determination of a target glycogen score value for a target muscle, comprising:

• a computing system having at least one processor adapted to receive at least one ultrasound scan of a target muscle, the ultrasound scan having a plurality of data elements, the first system further adapted to:
• select at least a portion of the ultrasound scan;
• define a plurality of subsets of the ultrasound data elements within the selected portion, each subset of ultrasound data elements having at least one attribute indicative of water concentration within the muscle tissue;
• quantify each attribute as a value within a range of glycogen concentration values from zero percent concentration to one hundred percent concentration, based on a pre-established glycogen concentration scale that correlates the attribute to a glycogen concentration value to determine a glycogen store value for each subset;
• record the determined glycogen store value for the muscle as an element of a glycogen value data set for the muscle;
• evaluate the glycogen value data set to determine a glycogen store value range for the target muscle;
• and
• in response to the range being at least above a pre-determined threshold, establish a target glycogen score for the muscle as based on an upper portion of the value range.