Abstract: A sponge for cleaning dish surfaces comprising a foam and abrasive particles disposed within the foam in an amount of from about 0.1% to about 30% by weight of the sponge. Further, methods of manufacturing the sponge for cleaning dish surfaces. Further, method of cleaning a dish surface using the sponge.

Abstract: A spray arm assembly includes a spray arm including a plurality of branches connected to each other and arrayed about a center point, each of the plurality of branches defining a passage therethrough and an aperture in fluid communication with the passage. The center point defines a spray arm central axis. The spray arm is rotatable about the spray arm central axis. The spray arm assembly further includes a base conduit defining a passage therethrough, the base conduit defining a base conduit central axis. The base conduit central axis is offset from the spray arm central axis. The spray arm assembly further includes an intermediate conduit connecting the base conduit and the spray arm, the intermediate conduit defining a passage in fluid communication between the passage of the base conduit and the passages of the plurality of branches. The intermediate conduit is rotatable about the base conduit central axis.

Abstract: A spatula cleaning assembly for cleaning a spatula includes a scraper that may be manipulated. The scraper frictionally engages a spatula such that the scraper removes debris from the spatula. A panel is hingedly coupled to the scraper. The panel is manipulated to compress the spatula between the scraper and the panel.

Abstract: A flexible tube insertion apparatus includes an insertion section including a plurality of segments, a plurality of stiffness variable portions provided in the respective segments and configured to vary stiffness of the respective segments, and a state detector configured to detect a shape of the insertion section. The apparatus includes a state calculator configured to acquire a shape of a tube at a time when the insertion section advances into the tube, and configured to calculate a relative position of the segment to the tube, and a control device configured to control, based on the shape of the tube, the stiffness variable portion provided in the segment which is calculated the relative position to the tube by the state calculator.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a surgical system that enable detection of a region including a specific living body site in an intraoperative image on the basis of a frequency of a motion vector of a living body in the intraoperative image. A motion detection unit detects the motion vector of the living body in the intraoperative image using the intraoperative images at different times. The analysis unit obtains the frequency of the motion vector detected by the motion detection unit. A frequency map generation unit detects the region including the specific living body site in the intraoperative image on the basis of the frequency obtained by the analysis unit. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a CCU and the like of an endoscopic surgical system.

Abstract: An image processing device for an endoscope outputs a video signal to an image display part that displays an observation image based on the video signal. The image display part is configured such that a first side of a display screen that displays the observation image is shorter than a second side intersecting with the first side, and is configured to be set in both a first setting state in which the first side is along a vertical direction and a second setting state in which the second side is along the vertical direction. The image processing device includes: a setting state recognition part configured to recognize the setting state; and a video signal generation part configured to generate the video signal such that the subject image in the observation image has an orientation corresponding to the setting state of the image display part.

Abstract: A plurality of images of an observation target are consecutively acquired with time intervals, coordinates of an observation position are identified in each image, and a plurality of corresponding points, which are pixel positions at which a image and a previously captured image correspond, are detected, wherein in this endoscope apparatus, when the coordinates of the observation position cannot be identified in the image, the coordinates of the observation position identified in the previously captured image are transformed to coordinates in a coordinate system of the image, and a direction of the transformed coordinates of the observation position with respect to the image center is calculated and is displayed together with the image.

Abstract: An endoscope system of the present invention is provided with: a long, thin inserted portion that includes an illuminating portion that emits an illumination light beam toward an imaging subject, an image-acquisition portion that acquires an image of the imaging subject, and a channel; and an illumination device that is disposed in the channel, wherein the illumination device includes an illuminating portion that emits, toward the imaging subject, an illumination light beam that has a divergence angle that is smaller than that of the illumination light beam and for which the image-acquisition portion has sensitivity, and a pulling member that extends to outside the channel from a base end of the illuminating portion, and wherein the illuminating portion can be removed from the channel by pulling the pulling member.

Abstract: A control unit attachable to a flexible endoscope having a shaft deflectable via two rotatable knobs is provided. The control unit includes a user interface including a first interface being mounted on a pivotal support attached to a housing of the control unit, the first interface being engageable by a palm of a hand. The control unit further includes a drive unit operable via the user interface, the drive unit including a first drive mechanism for engaging the two rotatable knobs thereby allowing a user to control deflection of the shaft of the endoscope via the first interface.

Abstract: A lens unit for an endoscope includes: a lens holding frame provided with a through hole extending from a distal end side to a proximal end side; a convex portion; a first lens including a first portion arranged on the distal end side, and a second portion whose outside edge forms a step portion to which the convex portion is housed; and a second lens arranged near the distal end side. The second lens is positioned closer to the proximal end than an end portion of the lens holding frame on the distal end side in a first state where the second portion is arranged closer to the proximal end than the first portion. At least a part of the second lens protrudes from the end portion in a second state where the first portion is arranged closer to the proximal end than the second portion.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a first capsule endoscope device and a second capsule endoscope device. The first capsule endoscope device is introduced into a living body before the second capsule endoscope device is introduced. The first capsule endoscope device includes a first image sensor and a first processor that controls an imaging operation by the first image sensor. The second capsule endoscope device includes a second image sensor and a second processor that performs a change process for control on an imaging operation by the second image sensor based on first information on the first capsule endoscope device.

Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to implement: an image acquisition process, an attention region detection process, a motion vector estimation process, and a display control process that displays an alert image based on an attention region and a motion vector. The processor implements display control process that performs display control on the alert image in the second captured image to achieve the second object region that is smaller than the first object region.

Abstract: A three-dimensional contour scanning device including an image sensing element, a light source and a single polarity element is provided. The light source is used for emitting a projection light to a to-be-scanned object through a projection optical path. The projection light reflected from the to-be-scanned object becomes an imaging light further reflected to the image sensing element through an image-formed optical path. The single polarity element is disposed on the projection optical path and the image-formed optical path.

Abstract: A dual blade laryngoscope having a folding handle and a manually installable lighting cartridge. The laryngoscope includes two spaced apart parallel blades and a wall spanning both. A slot is formed at one end of the parallel blades for receiving the lighting cartridge. A translucent or transparent lens covers a visualization channel defined between the parallel blades. The folding handle includes an axle to enable pivoting between a deployed position and a stowed position, and a projection which activates the lighting cartridge. The lighting cartridge and the transparent lens are removable. Each of the parallel blades has a curved portion at forward ends thereof to facilitate managing soft tissue and directional control of an endotracheal tube during insertion in a patient. A tooth guard pad of compliant rubber-like material may be permanently affixed to the underside of lower blade.

Abstract: A guiding device for use with a laryngoscope for assisting in the insertion of an endotracheal tube into a patient, the device comprising a guiding means for guiding an endotracheal tube through the patient's upper airways, and an attachment means to attach the guiding means to the blade of the laryngoscope. A laryngoscope comprising the guiding device is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to devices that demonstrate the function of ophthalmic lenses that modify human color perception and to methods and devices that simulate color vision deficiency or color blindness.

Abstract: An eyeball optical measuring device includes: an optical measuring unit that irradiates an eyeball of a subject with measuring light to perform an optical measurement of the eyeball; and a light irradiation unit that irradiates the eyeball with irradiation light prior to the optical measurement by the optical measuring unit, the irradiation light having a lower energy density than an energy density of the measuring light.

Abstract: An intraocular pressure sensor is presented that achieve very low power consumption. The intraocular pressure sensor takes the form of an implantable assembly configured to be implanted in an eye of a subject. Specifically, the implantable assembly is comprised of a capsular tension ring attached to a flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board includes a cutout that is sized to encircle the pupil of the eye and is C shaped. One or more electrical components are also mounted onto the flexible printed circuit board. One such component is a voltage reference generator that is implemented by a circuit which provides inherently low process variation and low power consumption.

Abstract: A method of operating a wireless ECG sensor system may include (1) wirelessly transmitting, using a second antenna, electromagnetic radiation having a frequency equal to the resonant frequency of a first antenna of a sensor patch; (2) inductively receiving, using the first antenna, power for operating a passive RFID transponder of the sensor patch; and (3) operating the microcontroller of the sensor patch to perform at least one scan, wherein performing the at least one scan is defined as: (a) receiving a cardiac activity signal from at least one of the positive and negative electrodes of the sensor patch, (b) retrieving a location identifier from the storage medium of the sensor patch, and (c) operating the load modulation switch of the sensor patch to alter a voltage amplitude of the electromagnetic radiation to transmit to a demodulator a cardiac event reading comprising the cardiac activity signal and the location identifier.

Abstract: A system for monitoring cardiac health of a user including a local sensing subsystem, a contactless interrogation subsystem, and a remote monitoring subsystem. The local sensing subsystem may include a sensor patch configured to attach to the user and include a substrate, a passive radio-frequency identification transponder, and a first antenna. The contactless interrogation subsystem may include an interrogator separated from the sensor patch, which may include a second antenna, a demodulator, and a communications link. The remote monitoring subsystem may include a computing system comprising a processor for executing instructions. The local sensing subsystem may be adapted to perform at least one scan. The contactless interrogation subsystem may be adapted to operate the demodulator to receive a cardiac event and to operate the communications link to transmit the cardiac event. The remote monitoring subsystem may be adapted to execute the instructions to detect an arrhythmia from the cardiac reading.

Abstract: A quantitative measurement system includes an external unit and an internal unit and is provided for obtaining quantitative analyte measurements, such as within the body. In one example application, the internal unit would be implanted either subcutaneously or otherwise within the body of a subject. The internal unit contains optoelectronics circuitry, a component of which may be comprised of a fluorescence sensing device. The optoelectronics circuitry obtains quantitative measurement information and modifies a load as a function of the obtained information. The load in turn varies the amount of current through coil, which is coupled to a coil of the external unit. A demodulator detects the current variations induced in the external coil by the internal coil coupled thereto, and applies the detected signal to processing circuitry, such as a pulse counter and computer interface, for processing the signal into computer-readable format for inputting to a computer.

Abstract: The present disclosure discusses systems and methods for identifying biomarkers that can help with the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment choices of patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Diffusion based magnetic resonance imaging can often fail for patients with a neurodegenerative disease because parameters fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, and radial diffusivity are based on simple models that can fail in the presence of neurodegeneration, such as demyelination. The present disclosure discusses systems and methods that enhance dMRI images and enable tractography to be performed on images of a damaged nervous system. The damaged tracks identified by the present system can be used as a biomarker for the assessment of patients. In some implementations, the biomarkers are converted into clinical scales that can be used to compare patients to one another or over time.

Abstract: A sensor comprising: including a first light detector and a second light detector configured to concurrently detect light, and an optical blocking filter. The first light detector is configured to detect light that enters the sensor to produce a first detected signal, the optical blocking filter is configured to filter the light that enters the sensor to produce filtered light, and the second light detector is configured to detect the filtered light to produce a second detected signal. There is also a subtraction element configured to subtract the second detected signal from the first detected signal to produce a subtracted signal, wherein the subtracted signal is a sensor signal usable for producing a physiological measurement result.

Abstract: A functional optical coherent imaging (fOCI) platform includes at least one active camera unit (ACU) having a coherent and/or a partially coherent light source, and means for spectral filtering and imaging a selected body area of interest; an image processing unit (IPU) for pre-processing data received from an ACU; at least one stimulation unit (STU) transmitting a stimulation to a subject; at least one body function reference measurement unit (BFMU); a central clock and processing unit (CCU), with interconnections to the ACU, the IPU, the STU, for collecting pre-processed data from the IPU, stimuli from the STU body function reference data from the BFMU in a synchronized manner; a post-processing unit (statistical analysis unit. SAU); and an operator interface (HOD.

Abstract: A disposable ear probe cover includes a light-transmissive cover body, a flange and a spacer member. The flange is formed on the light-transmissive cover body to surround an opening end of the light-transmissive cover. The spacer member is formed on the light-transmissive cover body. Therefore, when the disposable ear probe cover is sleeved into another disposable ear probe cover which is identical to the disposable ear probe cover, the spacer member of the disposable ear probe cover supports the other disposable ear probe cover so that a void gap is defined between the flange of the disposable ear probe cover and another flange of the another disposable ear probe cover.

Abstract: A medical monitoring device for monitoring electrical signals from the body of a subject is described. The medical monitoring device monitors electrical signals originating from a cardiac cycle of the subject and associates each cardiac cycle with a time index. The medical monitoring device applies a forward computational procedure to generate a risk score indicative of hyperkalemia, hypokalemia or arrhythmia of the subject. The medical monitoring device can adjust the forward computational procedure based upon clinical data obtained from the subject.

Abstract: A surgical system used to determine a size of a vessel within a region proximate to a working end of a surgical instrument includes at least one light emitter disposed at the working end, an array of light sensors disposed opposite the at least one light emitter, the array comprising a least one row of light sensors, individual light sensors in the row adapted to generate a signal comprising a pulsatile and a non-pulsatile component, and a controller coupled to the array, the controller comprising a splitter to separate the pulsatile component from the non-pulsatile component, and an analyzer to determine the magnitudes of the pulsatile and non-pulsatile components at the individual light sensors, to determine a first peak magnitude and a second peak magnitude of the pulsatile components, and to determine a resting outer diameter of the vessel based on the first and second peak magnitudes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes first specifier, second specifier, determiner and display controller. First specifier collates an ischemic region calculated from a blood vessel visualized into a three-dimensional image in a plurality of phases with a dominating region of the blood vessel, and specifies a culprit vessel in the ischemic region. Second specifier specifies a culprit stenosis in the culprit vessel based on a pressure index calculated from the blood vessel. Determiner determines a connection position to connect a bypass vessel that makes a detour around the culprit stenosis. Display controller displays the determined connection position on a display.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods of assisting blood flow return to the heart from a limb. The device comprising a wearable garment (115) and a compression apparatus (110) embedded in the garment (115) for applying an external compression according to a compression sequence to a muscle of a limb of a user based on real-time measurements regarding a cardiac cycle having a diastolic phase and systolic phase of the user and real-time measurements of muscle activity.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a human body wearable device including: a light emitting unit for generating light to outside, a light receiving unit for receiving light incident from outside; and a control unit for controlling an operation of the light emitting unit and detecting an intensity of light incident on the light receiving unit depending on the operation of the light emitting unit, and detecting a wearing state of the human body wearable device based on an intensity of detected light, wherein the control unit detects the wearing state using a difference value between an intensity of the light incident on the light receiving unit in an ON section of the light emitting unit and that of the light incident on the light receiving unit in an OFF section of the light emitting unit.

Abstract: A system and method for non-invasively monitoring the hemodynamic state of a patient by determining on a beat-by-beat basis the ratio of lusitropic function to inotropic function as an index of myocardial well-being or pathology for use by clinicians in the hospital or by the patient at home. In one embodiment of the system a smartphone running an application program that is connected through the internet to the cloud processes electronic signals, first, from an electrocardiogram device monitoring electrical cardiac activity, and second, from a seismocardiogram device monitoring mechanical cardiac activity in order to determine such ratio as an instantaneous measurement of the hemodynamic state of the patient, including such states as sepsis, myocardial ischemia, and heart failure.

Abstract: A method and system for determining cognitive load of a person using a modified baseline is provided. The person is asked to perform a series of activities including staying in eye closed rest state and baseline state and performing a trial state. Simultaneously, EEG signal and GSR signal of the person are captured. The EEG signal and the GSR signal are preprocessed and segmented. The EEG and GSR signals are then used to determine a first set and a second set of inactive states from the baseline interval and the rest interval. The most inactive window is then identified out of the first set of inactive states. The most inactive window is determined from the rest interval of the person. The inactive window is used as the modified baseline to measure the cognitive load of the person.

Abstract: It is proposed a method for post-processing images of an region of interest in a subject, the images being acquired with a magnetic resonance imaging technique, the method for post-processing comprising at least the step of:—unwrapping the phase of each image,—extracting a complex signal over echo time for at least one pixel of the unwrapped images, and—calculating fat characterization parameters by using a fitting technique applied on a model, the model being a function which associates to a plurality of parameters each extracted complex signal, the plurality of parameters comprising at least two fat characterization parameters, the magnitude error and the phase error generated by the use of the bipolar readout gradients, the fitting technique being a non-linear least-square fitting technique using pseudo-random initial conditions.

Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is provided. The method includes: a first echo signal and a second echo signal generated from each of channels of a MRI device are acquired by performing a pre-scanning according to an imaging sequence; a correction displacement with which an imaging phase consistency is maximum is determined by shifting a signal curve of the second echo signal for each of the channels for a plurality of times; a one-order phase correction value and a zero-order phase correction value for the channels are determined under the imaging sequence according to the correction displacement; a formal scanning is performed according to the imaging sequence to obtain scanning data; and a phase correction is performed on the scanning data according to the one-order phase correction value and the zero-order phase correction value to obtain target scanning data for reconstructing an image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical apparatus including a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data from an imaging volume. In one implementation, the MRI system may include a particle beam apparatus having a particle beam line for producing, directing and managing a particle beam of charged particles, a magnetic correction device for applying a magnetic correction to a magnetic field perturbation within the imaging volume, and a controller for controlling the magnetic correction device. The controller may be configured to provide a spatially optimized magnetic correction within a restricted volume of the imaging volume during a spatially optimized magnetic correction period posterior to an excitation period during which a selected slice from the imaging volume is excited.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical system including: a body; a first electrode; a second electrode; an electric generator; and a processing device suitable for determining an electrical characteristic that represents the capacitance of the tissue of an anatomical structure between first and second contact surfaces of the first and second electrodes to conduct the electric current, and for emitting a warning signal corresponding to the determined electrical characteristic, the warning signal being intermittent. In said medical system, the processing device is suitable for detecting a variation in the electrical characteristic and for varying at least one variable parameter of the warning signal after a time delay, in accordance with the variation in the electrical characteristic, has elapsed.

Abstract: Devices, systems, tools and methods are disclosed during diagnosis and treatment of spinal conditions. A cervical plumb line device is disclosed which can be used to produce a measurement of the sagittal vertical axis associated with a target part of a patient's cervical spinal anatomy from two or more radiographic images. Also disclosed is an apparatus for measuring the angulation of a patient's spinal anatomy relative to a cervical plumb line which uses a plurality of bolsters. A device that can be used to assist in implantation of an interbody device during spinal fusion device is also disclosed. Systems which produce geometric data describing optimized spinal fusion geometric at a spine level selected to receive spinal fusion.

Abstract: A system for superimposing virtual anatomical landmarks on an image includes a medical positioning system (MPS) for producing location readings with respect to points within a region of interest in accordance with an output of a location sensor disposed in a medical device. A coordinate system of the MPS is registered with an image coordinate system. A control unit receives a signal from a user to record a location reading when the medical device is at a desired point in the region of interest where the user desires to place a virtual landmark, modifies the recorded location reading for motion compensation, transforms the motion-compensated location reading from the MPS coordinate system to the image coordinate system to produce a target location, and then superimposes a representation of the virtual landmark on the image at the target location.

Abstract: A system and method for collecting operation data associated with a medical apparatus including an internal device implanted in a subject and an external device that is magnetically-coupled to and drives the internal device. The medical apparatus may be monitored to obtain raw data associated with the operation of the medical apparatus and one or more calculations may be performed on the raw data, wherein the raw data and/or calculated values may be associated with voiding frequency and voiding volume of the subject. A report may be generated from the raw data and/or calculated values. In addition, one or more signals may be sent to the external device and/or a docking station, or communicated by other means, to indicate to the subject that the operation of the medical apparatus should be altered.

Abstract: Aspects of gait matching are described herein. In one embodiment, a method of gait matching includes identifying a gait cycle timing in a data sequence captured by an inertial sensor, splitting the data sequence into a gait cycle segment, resampling the gait cycle segment, and estimating a rotation matrix for the resampled gait cycle segment. The rotation matrix, in one embodiment, can be estimated by minimizing a root mean squared deviation between the resampled gait cycle segment and a reference gait cycle segment. The method further includes calculating an aligned gait cycle segment from the resampled gait cycle segment using the rotation matrix, and generating a similarity measure between the aligned gait cycle segment and the reference gait cycle segment.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for generating personal identification information using an electrocardiogram and a method for identifying a person using the personal identification information. The methods dramatically increase an identification rate by using two-dimensional image data converted from an electrocardiogram signal as personal identification information, and enable real-time identification by reducing a calculation amount by converting only a single electrocardiogram cycle into the two-dimensional image data.

Abstract: A set of headphones is provided, configured to enable a user of the set of headphones to conduct a self-administered hearing test. The set of headphones comprises: a sound generating module; a controller operative to control separately sounds reaching each one of the user's ears; at least one processor operative to process feedbacks received via a user interface coupled to the set of headphones, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to: allow uploading of executable instructions to enable performing steps in a self-administered hearing test; activate the controller and the sound generating module in accordance with the executable instructions, for conducting the self-administered hearing test by the user using the set of headphones; receive the feedbacks from the user while conducting the self-administered hearing test; and determine hearing capabilities associated with the user, based on results obtained from the self-administered hearing test.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for determining an analyte value are disclosed.

Abstract: Materials and methods for treating major depressive disorder by modulating the aryl hydrocarbon receptor system are provided herein.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the parenteral procurement of bodily-fluid samples. The present invention is also directed to systems and methods for parenterally procuring bodily-fluid samples with reduced contamination from dermally-residing microbes. In some embodiments, a bodily-fluid withdrawing system is used to withdraw bodily fluid from a patient for incubation in culture media in one or more sample vessels. Prior to withdrawing bodily fluid into the one or more sample vessels for incubation, an initial volume of withdrawn bodily fluid is placed in one or more pre-sample reservoirs and is not used for the incubation in culture media.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of generating an adaptive partial report for an observer with an apparatus comprising a display, a user interface, and a processor. The apparatus can be a computer system or an electronic device, for example. The method includes the processor characterizing an iconic memory decay function for the observer. The characterization includes determining a prior for a plurality of parameters. The method further includes the processor determining a first stimulus for a first trial based on the prior for the plurality of parameters, the display generating the stimulus for viewing by the observer, the user interface receiving input for the first trial and in response to the stimulus, the processor revising respective parameter values for the parameters based on the received input, and the processor determining a new stimulus for a next trial based on the revised parameter values.

Abstract: Many electrodes are positioned inside a skull for obtaining several electric voltage variation wave information. A processing unit computes subtract operation between two neighboring electrical voltage variation wave information respectively and then can obtain electrical voltage difference waves. Furthermore, each electrical voltage difference wave is separated into a first band wave signal and a second band wave signal. After which, several first band wave envelope signals and second band wave envelope signals are obtained. It conducts a co-relation processing about the first band wave envelope signals and the second band wave envelope signals. So, a co-relation table is obtained for determining a position where an intracranial brain wave abnormality occurs. In this invention, a unique scientific approach to determine the spatial position of seizure onset occurred inside the brain. In addition, the position of intracranial brain wave abnormality can be concretized and visualized by the co-relation table.

Abstract: An aesthetic or medical laser system is disclosed. The laser system includes: a spectrometer configured to measure a spectrum of light which is generated when body tissue is irradiated with a laser for beauty or medical care; a spectrum data comparison unit configured to compare the spectrum of the generated light measured by the spectrometer and a disease diagnosis reference spectrum data DB; and a disease diagnosis unit configured to determine whether there exists a disease in the body tissue based on a result of comparing by the spectrum data comparison unit.

Abstract: A combination thermal and visual image capturing device used to capture real time thermal and visual images of surface and subsurface biological tissue, said device comprising: a power source, said power source functionally connected to said device; a housing, a long wave infrared microbolometer, said microbolometer functionally connected to said power source a digital camera; a short wave infrared microbolometer, said microbolometer functionally connected to said power source; a digital camera, said digital camera functionally connected to said power source; and a digital camera, said digital camera functionally connected to said power source, wherein said digital camera and 3D camera are contained within a USB peripheral device; said imaging apparatus further comprising means to electronically provide combined thermal image information from the microbolometers and visual image information from said digital camera and said 3D camera to another electronic device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to for treating for an individual identified as suffering from a liver lesion, preferably liver fibrosis or cirrhosis. The present invention thus relates to a method invention for implementing an adapted patient care for an individual suffering from a liver lesion, preferably liver fibrosis or cirrhosis, said method including the steps of (i) determining in the individual the presence and severity of a liver lesion, preferably liver fibrosis or cirrhosis, by carrying out at least one non-invasive test resulting in a value and positioning the at least one value in a class of a detailed classification; and (ii) implementing an adapted patient care for the individual depending on the severity of the liver lesion, preferably liver fibrosis or cirrhosis, as determined by the class of the detailed classification wherein the at least one value was positioned.