Abstract: A device and method for collecting blood from an anatomical feature of a mammalian subject, the device including a vibrating plate assembly structured and arranged to retain the anatomical feature, a first biasing device releasably attachable to the vibrating plate assembly, a housing portion releasably connectable to the vibrating plate assembly, and a plurality of vibrating motors located beneath the vibrating plate assembly, such that vibrations translated to the anatomical feature enhance blood collection, such that the first biasing device constricts blood flow to the collection point on the anatomical feature, causing blood to pool therein, and low frequency and/or high amplitude vibrations cause vasodilation, encouraging blood flow through the capillaries at the collection point.

Abstract: The present invention conducts an analysis on a user who has actually seen a commercial product or the like. An assessment system is provided with a biological information measurement device, a response state assessment unit, and a notification unit. The biological information measurement device measures biological information of a customer who has been presented with a provided commercial product and/or a provided service. The response state assessment unit identifies a response state of the customer who has been provided with the presentation, by making an assessment based on the biological information measured by the biological information measurement device. The notification unit gives notice based on the customer's response state identified by the response state assessment unit.

Abstract: An electronic device may determine whether a user wears the electronic device by means of at least one sensor; measure a first bio-signal of the user by means of the at least one sensor while the user wears the electronic device; drive an RF sensor included in a charging device while the electronic device is connected to the charging device including the RF sensor through an interface, thereby measuring a second bio-signal of the user that is generated by the RF signal oscillated from the RF sensor; receive at least one of electric power for charging the battery from the charging device and the second bio-signal through the interface; generate health information of the user on the basis of at least the first bio-signal and the second bio-signal; and display the generated health information on a display.

Abstract: An electronic device for providing biometric information is provided. The electronic device includes a sensor module, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the sensor module and the memory. The processor obtains a biometric signal from the sensor module at a predetermined time interval, determines whether a user is in a first state on the basis of the obtained biometric signal, in case the user is in a first state, obtains a representative value for a respective of the at least one biometric signal, defines the obtained representative value for the respective of the at least one biometric signal as a candidate reference value for a corresponding biometric signal, determines a candidate reference value satisfying a predetermined condition as a first reference value for the corresponding biometric signal, and updates a second reference value previously configured for the corresponding biometric signal on the basis of the first reference value.

Abstract: A method of detecting the likelihood of a seizure event in a patient includes at successive expirations of a first time interval, determining a first likelihood that the patient is experiencing a seizure based on electrodermal activity and a movement of a limb of the patient. The method also includes at successive expirations of a second time interval, determining whether the patient experienced a seizure in a second time period preceding the determining based on a heart rate of the patient. In response to determining that the third comparison result satisfies at least a third detection criterion, the method compares electrodermal activity and the movement of a limb of the patient to determine a second likelihood. In response to determining that the second likelihood satisfies a second detection criterion, the method triggers presentation of a second alert regarding a potential seizure.

Abstract: A skin evaluation device includes: a light source that projects a dot pattern created by first light onto a skin of at least one user; an image sensor that generates and outputs image data which indicates an image of the skin onto which the dot pattern is projected; a memory that stores reference data to evaluate a condition of the skin; and an arithmetic circuit that generates and outputs data related to the condition of the skin based on the image data and the reference data.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising at least one sensor to detect the position and/or orientation of a body portion of a subject, the sensor in communication with a computing device to process sensor data and optionally a transmitter to transmit sensor data between the sensor and the computing device and/or one or more computing devices.

Abstract: A sleeping/waking determining system (100) configured to determine whether a subject on a bed (BD) is in a sleeping state or in a waking state, includes: a load detector (11) configured to detect a load of the subject on the bed; and a determining unit (33) configured to determine whether the subject is in the sleeping state or in the waking state, based on a comparison between a threshold value and a value obtained by performing a time-integration of a standard deviation of a temporal variation of the load of the subject.

Abstract: An electrical circuitry fitted to be connected or to be an integral part of a bone fixation device having at least one linear actuator coupled between two rings, including: at least one linear actuator connector, mechanically and/or electrically connectable to said at least one linear actuator; a control circuitry, wherein said control circuitry measures a value related to the movement of said at least one linear actuator and/or to the distance or change in distance between said two rings, by receiving signals from said linear actuator connector; and a memory, wherein said memory stores said value.

Abstract: Treatment controllers and methods are provided that can be integrated with treatment systems, such as peritoneal dialysis systems, hemodialysis systems, and nocturnal treatment systems, to manage execution of treatment operations or a course of treatment based on timing information and/or patient sleep state.

Abstract: The disclosed system, which includes a wearable BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) sampling device and proprietary monitoring software, provides the wearer with the confidence to drink alcoholic beverages freely, up to the point where the software determines the wearer's BAC will be approaching the BAC Sweet Spot. The BAC Sweet Spot is defined as a range of BAC levels at which a person should be experiencing the height of the alcoholic experience, but at the same time not overindulging. The precise personalized calculation of the BAC Sweet Spot and maintaining the users BAC within the BAC Sweet Spot throughout the drinking session are the goals of this invention.

Abstract: Provided herein are, inter alia, methods for identifying subjects suffering from depression that will respond to treatment with an antidepressant.

Abstract: A sensor for indirect estimation of breast milk intake by an infant, the sensor comprising: a housing configured to be externally attached to an incontinence product worn by a subject, said housing comprising: a light-emitting diode (LED) configured to illuminate the incontinence product; a photodetector configured to output an indication of the amount of light reflected from the incontinence product; and an integrated circuit configured to: (a) receive the indication from said photodetector, (b) compute, based on the indication, an amount of urine secreted by the subject into the incontinence product, and (c) estimate the amount of breast milk intake by the infant based on the amount of urine secreted by the subject into the incontinence product.

Abstract: The method for diagnosing cerebrospinal fluid hypovolemia includes injecting saline into a subdural space of a subject in a decubitus position, raising an upper body of the subject, and then determining whether the subject has headache or not, or headache of the subject is relieved or not.

Abstract: A system and method to track the location and usage time of an orally insertable orthodontic device. The switch attached to the orthodontic device reports to the user device when it was inserted and removed from the mouth. Once removed from the mouth, the orthodontic device transmits a signal used to geolocate the device in the event it has been lost by the patient.

Abstract: Provided is an attachment pad that can be attached to and held on an attachment target substance such as human skin by an electrical attachment force. An attachment pad, which is used in a state of being attached to an attachment target substance, includes: a laminate sheet in which a first resin film having a thickness of 20 to 200 ?m, an electrode layer having a thickness of 1 to 20 ?m, and a second resin film having a thickness of 20 to 200 ?m are sequentially laminated; and a power supply device for applying a voltage to the electrode layer, wherein at least the second resin film has a tensile elastic modulus of 1 MPa or more and less than 100 MPa and a volume resistivity of 1×1010 to 1×1013 ?·cm, and the attachment pad is attached to the attachment target substance onto one surface of the second resin film as an attachment surface by an electrical attachment force generated by voltage application to the electrode layer.

Abstract: Technologies and implementations for a wearable medical device (WMD). The technologies and implementations facilitate improved comfort and usability of WMDs. Additionally, the technologies and implementations include WMDs having wearable cardioverter defibrillator capabilities.

Abstract: Technologies and implementations for stabilizing a wearable medical device (WMD) on a person. The technologies and implementations facilitate improved stability of adhesion and contact of the WMD on the person. Additionally, the technologies and implementations include length changeable support structure configured to help facilitate the improved stability.

Abstract: An arrangement for providing information of an alignment of a catheter is provided. The arrangement comprises a catheter (140). The arrangement comprises a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement comprises a first sensor (101) and a second sensor (102). The first and the second sensors are adapted to measure respective velocities of the fluid flow. The first and second sensors are arranged at a circumference of the catheter. The first and second sensors provide information such that an alignment of the catheter with respect to a direction of the fluid flow is determinable based on the respective velocities of the fluid flow measured by the first and second sensors.

Abstract: An implantable intraocular physiological sensor for measuring a physiological characteristic, such as intraocular pressure. The implantable intraocular physiological sensor may include a tubular main body configured to house one or more electrical components. The implantable intraocular physiological sensor may also include a sensor cap configured to be inserted into a first end of the tubular main body with a moisture barrier seal. The implantable intraocular physiological sensor may wirelessly transmit measurements to an external device.

Abstract: Analysis of keystroke dynamics performed by an individual can be used for assessment and monitoring of the individual's motor function. Keystroke events related to a user pressing one or more keys on a keyboard or regions on a touch screen may be analyzed to identify a plurality of distributions of keystroke event intervals. The plurality of distributions may be analyzed to identify one or more features indicative of variation among the distributions and indicative of the user's motor function. Monitoring of a user's motor function may include comparing a value for a feature for one plurality of distribution to a second value for the same feature for another plurality of distributions.

Abstract: A method for determining an item of patient information that alludes to a position and/or a movement of a patient during an examination and/or treatment process with a medical engineering apparatus is provided. The patient information is determined from sensor data of a mobile telephone sensor of a mobile telephone, such as a smartphone, coupled motionally to the patient, at least in one direction of movement.

Abstract: An ear gel module for an earpiece includes an ear gel having opposite inner and outer surfaces and first and second light guides each having respective opposite first and second ends. The first end of the first light guide is secured to the inner surface of the ear gel, and the first end of the second light guide is secured to the inner surface of the ear gel in adjacent spaced-apart relationship with the third light guide first end. The second ends of the first and second light guides are configured to be attached to and in optical communication with respective light guides extending from a sensor module within the earpiece when the ear gel module is attached to the earpiece.

Abstract: A pulse wave is detected chronologically. Time-frequency analysis is performed on the detected pulse wave to determine a power spectrum for each time. Local maximum points are determined for each one of the power spectra determined for the respective times. For each one of the power spectra determined for the respective times, a certain number of largest values of the determined local maximum points are extracted as pulse rate candidates for that time. A pulse rate candidate is compared with a pulse rate candidate for the preceding time to determine a difference in frequency between them, and pulse rates for which the determined difference in frequency is equal to or greater than a preset reference value are eliminated from the candidates.

Abstract: A method for estimating glucose values of a user and an insulin infusion and management system are provided. The insulin infusion and management system can include an insulin infusion device configured to deliver insulin to a user; a blood glucose meter; a source of user activity data; and a processor-based computing device that supports data communication with the insulin infusion device. A processor device of the computing device can perform a method for estimating glucose values of a user. In accordance with the method, a first set of inputs can be received and processed via an estimation model for a user to generate a set of estimated glucose values that track actual glucose values.

Abstract: Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration.

Abstract: A device for detecting potential health issues includes a retinal scanner configured to capture retinal data of the user, a blood pressure sensor configured to capture blood pressure data of the user, an alert module configured to alert the user of a potential health risk, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the retinal scanner, the blood pressure sensor, and the alert module.

Abstract: A method of predicting likelihood for childhood obesity, comprises: obtaining a plurality of parameters, wherein at least a few of the parameters characterize an infant or toddler subject. A machine learning procedure trained for predicting likelihoods for childhood obesity is feed with the plurality of parameters. An output indicative of a likelihood that the infant or toddler subject is expected to develop childhood obesity is received from the procedure. The output is related non-linearly to the parameters.

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations, a system calculates a potential for ACL injury of a subject using skeletal tracking and calculating joint angles at different time points from the motion, angle of the knee joint, jumping/landing mechanics and/or balance of the subject.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a biological information measurement device includes: a biological information measurer configured to carry out intermittent measurement of biological information of a user; a motion information measurer configured to measure motion information of the user; a feature calculator configured to calculate a feature from the motion information; a behavior state determiner configured to determine a behavior state of the user on the basis of the feature; and a measurement interval controller configured to select one intermittent measurement from a plurality of intermittent measurements having different measurement intervals on the basis of the determined behavior state of the user and control the biological information measurer.

Abstract: A method for preventing obesity related to infection by an adipogenic adenovirus includes obtaining a sample from a person, assaying the sample to determine whether the person has been previously infected with an adipogenic adenovirus, and if the person has not been previously infected, providing the person with at least one sensor positioned to detect when a person's hand approaches a predetermined distance from the person's face. By warning the person of undesired hand-to-face contacts, the person is able to reduce the incidence of obesity related infections. Other embodiments are directed to a kit for preventing obesity caused by infection with an adipogenic adenovirus, such kit including a container for assaying an agent indicating the presence of antibodies to Ad-36, and a sensor positioned on an item selected from the group consisting of one of a hat, a writing instrument, eye glasses, a belt, sunglasses, a bra, a shirt, and a tie.

Abstract: A user, such as an elderly person, may be assisted by an assistance device in his or her caregiving environment that operates in conjunction with one or more server computers. The assistance device may execute a schedule of assistance actions where each assistance action is associated with a time and is executed at that time to assist the user. An assistance action may present an input request to a user, process a voice input of the user, and analyze the voice input to determine that the voice input corresponds to a negative response event, a positive response event, or a non-response event. Based on the categorization of one or more voice inputs as negative response events, positive response events, or non-response events, it may be determined to notify a caregiver of the user, for example where the user has not responded to a number of assistance actions.

Abstract: A method, including receiving from mapping electrodes positioned at locations within a heart, signals indicating electrical activity in tissue contacting the electrodes, and processing the signals to identify, for each location, at least one corresponding LAT in a cycle of a heart. For each location, an earliest LAT in the cycle is identified, and an electroanatomical map including mapping points having respective locations and showing the earliest LAT at each location is generated and rendered. An input selecting a subset of the points is received, and a time range containing the earliest LAT of a majority of the points in the subset is identified. One or more outlying points in the subset are identified, and a second LAT, later than the earliest LAT in the cycle is found among the at least one identified LAT identified at the outlying points. The map is updated to display the found second LAT.

Abstract: An exemplary focused tomography system comprises an x-ray transmitter that is configured to emit a radiation beam and an x-ray detector that is configured to detect incident radiation from the radiation beam. The system further includes an adaptive collimator device arranged between the x-ray transmitter and the x-ray detector and a controller device connected to the x-ray transmitter that is configured to cause the x-ray transmitter to emit the radiation beam at a first radiation dosage level when a path of the radiation beam intersects a region of interest of the subject and cause the x-ray transmitter to emit the radiation beam at a second radiation dosage level when the path of the radiation beam does not intersect the region of interest of the subject, such that the second radiation dosage level is less than the first radiation dosage level. Data within the region of interest can be reconstructed with image quality equivalent to traditional computed tomography scans.

Abstract: A compression arm device for compressing a breast in an imaging system with a compression paddle. The compression arm device includes a drive for moving the compression paddle towards the breast such that the drive provides a variable resistance during a contact of the compression paddle with the breast.

Abstract: A medical device of an embodiment includes at least one movably mounted and motor-adjustable component; at least one drive unit for adjusting the at least one component; at least one motor control unit associated with the drive unit; and at least one sensing unit for sensing a position parameter dependent on the position of the at least one component. According to an embodiment of the invention, a safety function is integrated in the motor control unit. The safety function limits at least one operating parameter associated with the motion of the at least one component to be performed. An apparatus control unit controls the drive unit in dependence on the position parameter in accordance with the safety function. At least one embodiment of the invention further relates to a method for operating a medical device.

Abstract: An X-ray imaging system includes a frame; a gantry mounted on the frame; an electromagnetic linear drive coupled to the gantry for translating the gantry in a horizontal direction; a C-arm mounted on the gantry, the C-arm rotatable across at least a 90 degree angle; an X-ray source mounted to one end of C-arm; an X-ray detector array mounted to the opposite end of the C-arm. The array is formed of a plurality of array elements, each array element formed of a plurality of linear detectors. Each array element is mounted perpendicular to a radial line between a focal spot of the X-ray source and a middle of each array element, and the X-ray detector array has a focal point at the X-ray source.

Abstract: The invention is a system for measuring the true dimensions and orientation of objects in a two dimensional image. The system is comprised of a ruler comprising at least one set of features each comprised of two or more markers that are identifiable in the image and having a known spatial relationship between them and a software package comprising programs that allow extension of the ruler and other objects in the two dimensional image beyond their physical dimensions or shape. The system can be used together with radiographic imagery means, processing means, and display means to take x-ray images and to measure the true dimensions and orientation of objects and to aid in the identification and location of a surgery tool vs. anatomy in those x-ray images. The invention provides a method of drawing and displaying on a two dimensional x-ray image measurements of objects visible in said image, graphical information, or templates of surgical devices.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising an insertion tube; an image sensor inside the insertion tube; wherein the image sensor comprises an array of pixels; wherein the image sensor is configured to count numbers of particles of radiation incident on the pixels, within a period of time. Also disclosed herein is a method of using this apparatus.

Abstract: A C-arm, or a mobile intensifier device, is one example of a medical imaging device that is based on X-ray technology. Because a C-arm device can display high-resolution X-ray images in real time, a physician can monitor progress at any time during an operation, and thus can take appropriate actions based on the displayed images. Monitoring the images, however, is often challenging during certain procedures, for instance during procedures in which attention must be paid to the patient's anatomy as well as a medical imaging device display. In an example, a surgical instrument assembly includes a processor, a surgical instrument configured to operate on an anatomical structure, and a display coupled to the processor and attached to the surgical instrument. The processor can be configured to determine a position of the medical imaging device, from which the medical imaging device can generate an X-ray image that includes holes of an intramedullary nail shown as circles, for instance perfect circles.

Abstract: An X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus includes a fluoroscopic recording button that an operator operates to record a fluoroscopic image as a still image or a moving image in a storage during fluoroscopic imaging and record, as the still image or the moving image in the storage, the fluoroscopic image recorded in a temporary storage after completion of the fluoroscopic imaging.

Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube exposes X-rays. The X-ray detector detects the X-rays exposed from the X-ray tube. The processing circuitry generates an X-ray image on the basis of a first detection result that is a detection result of the X-rays exposed for an irradiation period. The processing circuitry corrects the X-ray image on the basis of a second detection result that is a detection result of the X-rays until a point before the end of the irradiation period.

Abstract: A method of position planning for a recording system of an imaging device with respect to a selectable field of view of a patient includes acquiring current position information of the recording system and/or the imaging device, and/or setting information of a collimator of the imaging device. A current intersection volume between an X-ray beam and the patient and/or a current field of view is determined. The current intersection volume and/or the current field of view is determined as a virtual display element. A target intersection volume and/or a target field of view is received by manipulation of the virtual display element. A target position of the recording system and/or the imaging device, and/or the setting of the collimator is determined, such that, on occupying the target position, the target intersection volume and/or the target field of view becomes the current intersection volume and/or current field of view.

Abstract: An X-ray CT apparatus of an embodiment includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a data processor, a battery, a rotating body, and processing circuitry. The X-ray detector is configured to detect X rays output from the X-ray tube. The data processor is configured to process a signal output from the X-ray detector. The battery is configured to supply electric power to the data processor. The rotating body is configured to rotatably support the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector, the X-ray tube facing the X-ray detector, and further to rotatably support the data processor and the battery. The processing circuitry is configured to monitor a remaining capacity of the battery, and determine a scanning condition on the basis of the remaining capacity.

Abstract: A one-piece diaphragm and ring for a stethoscope chestpiece is disclosed herein. The one-piece diaphragm and ring includes a diaphragm portion having a flat disk shape; and a ring portion connected to an outer periphery of the diaphragm portion, the ring portion being integrally formed with the diaphragm portion, and the ring portion configured to be attached to a rim of a chestpiece body portion. A chestpiece of a stethoscope that includes the one-piece diaphragm and ring is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A region of interest extending in the depth direction is set in the center portion of a tomographic image. Identification processing is applied on an image portion defined by the region of interest, on a frame-by-frame basis. In the identification processing, pattern matching processing is performed at positions within the region of interest using a template. Based on a plurality of correlation values obtained from this processing, a tissue image that satisfies identification conditions is identified. In the pattern matching processing, a set of templates may be used.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for detecting the distance between a plurality of position detectors using ultrasound is provided. The position detection system includes a processor and a memory device. The position detection system further includes a first position detector device configured to detect the position of a medical device within a patient, the first position detector device comprising a first transceiver, further wherein the first position detector device is operatively coupled to the processor; and a second position detector device configured to detect the position of a medical device within a patient, the second position detector device comprising a second transceiver, further wherein the second position detector device is operatively coupled to the processor.

Abstract: A controller for displaying a puncture site of an intra-atrial septum for heart repairs includes a memory and a processor (710). The processor (710) executes instructions (784) to perform a process based on image data of a heart that includes a mitral valve and an intra-atrial septum. The process includes defining a mitral valve annulus plane along a mitral valve annulus of the mitral valve and a normal vector perpendicular to the mitral valve annulus plane. The process also includes defining an offset plane that intersects with the intra-atrial septum and that is parallel to the mitral valve annulus plane. A safe zone for the puncture site is identified and displayed on the intra-atrial septum. The safe zone is between a lower boundary plane (456) and an upper boundary plane (455) that are each parallel to the offset plane by specified distances.

Abstract: Ultrasound systems having a computing device, a steering mechanism, and an ultrasound transducer are disclosed. The ultrasound transducer is configured to generate angularly discrete signals over a scan region of the ultrasound system in response to inputs from the steering mechanism. The computing device is communicatively coupled to the ultrasound transducer. The computing device includes a processor configured to receive angularly discrete ultrasound signals from the ultrasound transducer over the scan region, determine a scan line count corresponding to each of the received angularly discrete ultrasound signals, associate a TGC curve with each of the scan line counts, apply a TGC curve to each of the angularly discrete ultrasound signals as associated with the scan line count of each angularly discrete ultrasound signal, where each of the applied TGC curves defines a gain that maintains, increases, or decreases the angularly discrete ultrasound signal to which it is applied, over time.

Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-modality data processing are provided. Some embodiments are particularly directed to navigating sets of multi-modality medical data in a multi-modality processing system. In one embodiment, a method for navigating medical data in a medical processing system includes receiving a reference set of medical data by the medical processing system, where the medical data corresponds to a modality selected from the group consisting of: FFR, iFR, pressure, flow, IVUS, and OCT. The medical processing system also receives a navigation command. An enhancement and a subset of the reference set of medical data to enhance are identified based on the navigation command. The medical processing system performs the selected enhancement on the subset of data and the enhanced subset is displayed. The enhancement may include performing a single-axis zoom on the subset.