Abstract: A feeding analysis system reviews collected feeding data and provides analysis of data regarding nutritive sucking, feeding, and related activity.

Abstract: Systems and methods to provide remote patient monitoring for viral-respiratory symptoms, including coronavirus or COVID-19 symptoms are disclosed, including a signal receiver circuit configured to receive first and second physiologic information of a patient, the first physiologic information comprising respiration rate information of a patient and the second physiologic information different than the first physiologic information, and an assessment circuit configured to determine an indication of patient viral-respiratory disease using the received first and second physiologic information.

Abstract: A method for diagnosis of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and related systems and apparatuses are disclosed. In the method, a visual evaluation of the patient in a standing position is first conducted. Condyle position in ear canals of the patient is palpated during jaw movement. A hip level of the patient is evaluated when back teeth of the patient are closed. If hips are unlevel, a first spacer is inserted between front teeth of the patient. The condyle position felt in the ear canals of the patient are re-palpated during jaw movements with the first spacer in place. The patient then raises and lowers his or her body by going up on their toes, and dropping to their heels. A reevaluation of the hip level of the patient is conducted and a positive or negative TMD diagnosis is indicated based on the reevaluation of the hip level of the patient.

Abstract: Elderly people suffer from health issues, and timely detection can save lives. State of the art techniques either make certain assumptions or require clinical data in order to perform the frailty detection, which affects the quality as well as cause inconvenience to the users. The disclosure herein generally relates to patient monitoring and, more particularly, to frailty detection using pedometer sensor data, PIR sensor data, and door sensor data. The system determines activity levels of the user being monitored, based on data from the pedometer sensors, PIR sensors, and door sensors, and based on the determined activity levels, further determines whether the user has frailty or not.

Abstract: Uroflowmeters and methods for processing data generated therefrom are disclosed. In one aspect, the uroflowmeter is a handheld device. The uroflowmeter includes a handle, a flow chamber coupled to the handle, and a sensor associated with the flow chamber that detects a parameter of urine received in the flow chamber. The uroflowmeter may include both reusable and disposable components. As a uroflowmeter it can identify and record data corresponding to the rate of flow over the measured duration of a void of urine, but may also timestamp the voiding act and communicate the data to an external data collection center for additional analysis and incorporation into a comprehensive voiding report or voiding diary.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating bio-information may include: a bio-signal acquirer configured to acquire a bio-signal; and a processor configured to extract one or more first feature values from the bio-signal, determine a scale factor based on the first feature values, and to estimate bio-information based on the scale factor and the first feature values.

Abstract: Techniques for detecting infections in a patient in relation to temperature values obtained from implantable temperature sensors are described. An example implantable temperature sensor may be included within a housing of an implantable medical device (IMD). In some examples, the temperature sensor may determine a plurality of temperature values over time. Processing circuitry of the IMD or of an external device may smooth the temperature values and apply an infection detection model to the smoothened temperature signal to determine an infection status of the patient.

Abstract: Continuous core body temperature measurements are made during hypothermic operations, where the core body temperature of the patient is lowered to reduce swelling. Caregivers monitor the patient's core body temperature to prevent damage that can occur to the patient if the patient's core body temperature becomes too low. To accurately determine the core body temperature of the patient, a temperature monitoring system measures the temperature at or near the surface of the patient and through at least a portion of a thermal block at multiple locations.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, exposed stimuli based on sensor data; monitoring, by the computing device, a response to the stimuli based on the sensor data; detecting, by the computing device, a deviation between the response to the stimuli and an expected response to the stimuli, wherein the expected response to the stimuli is determined based on information stored by a knowledge corpus; and executing, by the computing device, a deviation instruction based on the detecting the deviation.

Abstract: An aspect of some embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for determining one or more characteristics of a region of interest. The method includes providing stimulation for exciting the region of interest for a first selected time period; monitoring mechanical response of the region of interest for at least a second time period after said first time period; processing data indicative of said mechanical response, and determining data on one or more measures of motion of the region of interest; utilizing data on one or more measures of motion for yielding at least one damping parameter indicative of damping of the mechanical response of the region of interest, and determining at least one characteristic of the region of interest in accordance with at least one damping parameter.

Abstract: A bladder fullness monitoring systems includes a controller and an active optical sensor that is affixed to a patient's bladder. The sensor emits light onto the bladder and further detects light reflected from the bladder, in order to generate an output signal that indicates an amount of emitted light was reflected back to the detector. The controller is coupled to the optical sensor to receive and interpret the output signals, e.g., to determine when the bladder is full. The controller may be operatively coupled to a urinary control apparatus which uses the output signals to trigger urination in patients who have lost the ability to voluntarily urinate. Embodiments are particularly useful for monitoring bladder fullness in patients who have lost bladder sensation and/or the ability to voluntary urinate and rely on a urinary control apparatus in order to urinate.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the detection of distortion products of otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE), comprising the steps: (a) output of at least one first pair of primary tones each consisting of a first primary tone with frequency f1,1 and sound pressure level L1,1 and a second primary tone with frequency f2,1 and sound pressure level L2,1 with f2,1>f1,1, and (b) detecting evoked distortion products of otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE), characterized in that the first primary tone {f1,1, L1,1} is output with a time delay tlag after the second primary tone {f2,1, L2,1}.

Abstract: A method and device for measuring intra-abdominal pressure in a pregnant woman to assess likelihood or occurrence of pre-eclampsia. The method includes providing a catheter having first and second lumens and a balloon, inserting the catheter into a bladder of the patient, injecting gas into the first lumen of the catheter to expand the balloon, obtaining a first pressure reading of the bladder based on deformation of the balloon to thereby monitor pressure within an abdomen of the mother to assess if pre-eclampsia is occurring or likely to occur and transmitting the first pressure reading to an external monitor connected to the catheter. The pressure reading is indicative of the presence and/or risk of pre-eclampsia to determine when intervention should occur to prevent morbidity and mortality of the woman and baby.

Abstract: A device can screen swallowing safety and swallowing efficiency. The device includes a processor configured to receive accelerometry data, determine a an A-P and S-I signal summed spectrogram from the accelerometry data, and perform one or more of identifying a missing swallow, identifying that the data was clipped from the start, identifying that the data was clipped from the end, or identifying that the data contains noise. The device can have a user interface configured to provide one or more outputs including at least one of audio or graphics based on these identifications. If the data does not contain these signal quality issues, the device can compare the data against preset classification criteria defined for each of swallowing safety and swallowing efficiency and thus classify each of the swallowing events with a swallowing safety classification and a swallowing efficiency classification.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to provide guidance to a user regarding management of a physiologic condition such as diabetes. The determination may be based upon a patient glucose concentration level. The glucose concentration level may be provided to a stored model to determine a state. The guidance may be determined based at least in part on the determined state.

Abstract: An apparatus for manipulation and evaluation of a joint includes a frame to support the joint and to facilitate an application of force away from the joint for the evaluation of the joint, a bracket assembly supported by, and moveable relative to, the frame, the bracket assembly being configured to engage the joint, and a sensor coupled to the bracket assembly such that the sensor is moved by displacement of the bracket assembly relative to the frame during the evaluation of the joint, the sensor being configured to generate a signal indicative of the displacement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an accessory device (20) for an image-capturing device (10) for capturing a skin image of a subject's skin comprising a tubular member (21) having a first opening (22) at its first end (23) configured to surround a light source (11) and an image sensor (12) included in the image-capturing device (10) and a second opening (24) at its second end (25) configured to surround a skin portion (101) and two mirrors (26, 27) arranged within the tubular number (21) at its second end (25), wherein a first mirror (26) is arranged to retied light (30) emitted by the light source (11) towards the skin portion (101) and a second mirror (27) is arranged to reflect light (31) reflected from the skin portion (101) towards the image sensor (12). The accessory device can be coupled to an image-capturing device to acquire an image of a skin portion, which is evaluated to determine a skin parameter, such as skin gloss.

Abstract: A method for determining the focus of the visual attention of an individual from electroencephalographic signals. At least one visual stimulus to be displayed is generated from at least one graphical object, a visual stimulus being an animated graphical object obtained by applying to a graphical object a temporal succession of elementary transformations that is temporally parameterized by a corresponding modulation signal. From a plurality of electroencephalographic signals produced by the individual focusing his visual attention to one of the visual stimuli, a modulation signal is reconstructed. A visual stimulus corresponding to the modulation signal for which the degree of statistical dependence with the reconstructed modulation signal is higher than a first threshold is identified.

Abstract: A method for determining the focus of the visual attention of an individual from electroencephalographic signals. At least one visual stimulus to be displayed is generated from at least one graphical object, a visual stimulus being an animated graphical object obtained by applying to a graphical object a temporal succession of elementary transformations that is temporally parameterized by a corresponding modulation signal. From a plurality of electroencephalographic signals produced by the individual focusing his visual attention to one of the visual stimuli, a modulation signal is reconstructed. A visual stimulus corresponding to the modulation signal for which the degree of statistical dependence with the reconstructed modulation signal is higher than a first threshold is identified.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a gait analysis apparatus that is configured to provide multidimensional measures of the gait of an individual as the individual traverses the gait analysis apparatus. The gait analysis apparatus may be configured to provide a gait measuring processing device with the multidimensional measurements. Based on the multidimensional measurements, the gait measuring process device may, for example, diagnose the test subject with lameness or particular neuromuscular dysfunctions (NM) disease and/or injury, monitor progression of lameness or a particular NM disease and/or injury over time, determine a static weight as the test subject is traversing, monitor the static weight of the test subject over an extended period time, and/or determine which measurements may be used as biomarkers to identify lameness or the particular NM disease and/or injury. A system including a gait analysis apparatus is also disclosed.