Abstract: Example methods of quantifying known and unknown risks of an adverse drug event in an individual based on various factors are disclosed. In some embodiments, factors include known drug-drug interactions and unknown phenotypes of cytochromes. Quantification may be based on severity of the adverse drug event/and or probability of occurrence in some embodiments. Example methods of displaying the quantified risk are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the risk of individuals is aggregated to display the risk of a population.

Abstract: Provided are a health data collection device, a health evaluation system using this, and a health evaluation method including the health data collection device. The health data collection device includes a stimulation providing device, a bio signal measurement device, and a controller. The stimulation providing device provides stimulation such that a user changes from a stabilization state to a perturbation state. The bio signal measurement device measures a first bio signal in the stabilization state and a second bio signal in the perturbation state. The controller controls a stimulation providing device or a bio signal measurement device based on personal identification information. The controller generates physiological function data based on the first bio signal and the second bio signal. According to the inventive concept, bio-signals are measured using continuously changing personal identification information and stimulation, so data optimized for health state evaluation may be collected.

Abstract: An approach is provided that automatically adjusts a band of a wearable electronic device. The approach detects conditions, such as activity-based conditions and location-based conditions, and automatically adjusts the band of the wearable electronic device based on the detected conditions.

Abstract: A method in a first wireless station of establishing a connection with a second wireless station includes: generating a frame including a capabilities element having: a core capabilities field containing a predefined sequence of core subfields having respective predefined lengths; the core subfields containing respective first core values defining core capabilities of the first wireless station; and at least one extended capability field containing: an extended capability identifier subfield containing an identifier of one of a plurality of predefined extended capabilities; an extended capability length subfield containing an extended capability length value; and an extended capability payload subfield having a length equal to the extended capability length value; the payload subfield containing a first extended value defining an extended capability of the first wireless station; and responsive to generating the frame, transmitting the frame.

Abstract: A device and method of providing instruction to a patient regarding the dosing of insulin is provided.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to speech signal processing, and more particularly to method and system for improving recognition of disordered speech. In one embodiment, a method and a system for identifying extent of deviation in speech utterances of a user from a normal level, caused due to such impairments are provided. The system further makes appropriate modifications to generate utterances pertaining to healthy speech. This data may be fed as input to the speech recognition systems, as those systems can interpret the corrected data.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a camera unit including a lens and an imaging device, disposed inside the housing, and configured to image an external object through the opening, a telecommunication member disposed inside the housing and configured to connect a control substrate controlling the camera unit to an imaging device substrate on which at least the imaging device of the camera unit is mounted, and a communication antenna at least partially disposed in a gap between an inner edge of the opening and the camera unit as viewed in an optical axis direction of the camera unit at a position substantially symmetrical to the telecommunication member across the lens.

Abstract: The current invention pertains to an apparatus and method for the determination of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) and the estimation of blood lactate levels. While these exercise parameters are traditionally determined using indirect calorimetry and blood sampling, this invention provides a method for the determination of these parameters using heart rate data. A wearable photoplethysmography device for measuring heart rate is included as an exemplary embodiment, however, the method of the current inventions can also be used with heart rate data from any heart rate monitor. In an embodiment of the present invention a supply demand differential equation is used to continuously monitor EPOC in real-time. Furthermore, blood lactate levels can also be estimated as a function of EPOC.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to predict a lucidity level of a subject.

Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to a system and a machine-readable medium for providing an entrainment experience to a user. The system comprising an experience system in communication with one or more human sensory inputs and an entraining rhythm generation unit. The experience system configured to receive entraining rhythm information from the entraining rhythm generation unit, determine the entrainment experience based on the entraining rhythm information, and provide the entrainment experience to the user via the one or more human sensory inputs.

Abstract: A system and method that identifies delayed infusion programs at an infusion pump or with a first computer and an infusion pump. The first computer receives an infusion auto-program from a remote source, transmits the infusion auto-program to the infusion pump, and sends a stale auto-program to the infusion pump. The infusion pump receives a manual infusion program, saves and executes the manual infusion program, and compares the stale auto-program to the manual infusion program to identify potential matches between the stale auto-program and the manual infusion program. The infusion pump evaluates the potential matches and determines if the potential matches are within a predefined tolerance, continues to execute the at least one manual infusion program on the infusion pump if the potential matches are within the predefined tolerance, and remotely saves differences in the manual infusion program and the at stale auto-program in a remote server for later analysis.

Abstract: A system for constitutional analysis using objective functions includes a computing device configured to generate a ranked list of diseases, by determining a plurality of disease impact score vectors for plurality of diseases, and generating and optimizing a first objective function of the impact score vectors, to receive, from a user, a plurality of user physiological history data, to identify, as a function of a disease state classifier, a plurality of disease states associated with the plurality of user physiological history data, to match at least a disease state of the plurality of disease states to the ranked list of diseases, and to generate a curative habitual pattern to alleviate the at least a disease state by combining intervention elements to form a curative habitual pattern candidates, calculating a curative impact score of each curative habitual pattern candidate, and selecting the curative habitual pattern using the curative impact score.

Abstract: A virtual reality system providing a virtual robotic surgical environment, and methods for using the virtual reality system, are described herein. The virtual reality system may be used to expedite the R&D cycle during development of a robotic surgical system, such as by allowing simulation of potential design without the time and significant expense of physical prototypes. The virtual reality system may also be used to test a control algorithm or a control mode for a robotic surgical component.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detection and/or intervention of stress episodes such as nightmares during sleep activity or flashbacks or anxiety attacks during waking or sleep activity. In some embodiments, sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, heart rate sensors, and/or other sensors, may be used for monitoring stress indicators indicative of a user's stress level. The sensed stress indicators may be used to calculate a stress level. If the stress level meets or exceeds a stress level threshold, haptic, audio, visual, and/or other feedback or alerts may be used to draw a user's attention and thus interrupt the stress episode.

Abstract: A management device includes circuitry configured to acquire sensor data that indicates measurement results of one or more of a plurality of sensors, control display of first content on a first screen in response to receiving a setting of a monitoring target range regarding measurement values, and control display of second content on a second screen in response to receiving a setting of a determination condition of an abnormality determination, perform a statistical process on a data group including intra-range data, the intra-range data being the sensor data included in the monitoring target range regarding the measurement values, out of the sensor data previously acquired, and in response to a result of the statistical process satisfying the determination condition, perform a predetermined output operation related to the abnormality determination.

Abstract: A method and device is described for delivering radiation therapy beam arrangement and beam settings to a radiotherapy device treating a patient with a tumor based medical condition. Patient specific treatment parameters data for the medical condition are developed and modified by the system. The treatment parameters data includes at least radiotherapy beam arrangement or photon beam energy for treatment of the particularized patient tumor location. Patient specific treatment parameters data are derived from a selected treatment plan and may include outlining of the patient's tumor in the medical images, the relevant modified patient specific treatment parameters data transferred to a computer controlling the radiotherapy device to control and apply radiotherapy treatment to the patient according to the modified treatment data.

Abstract: A non-boarded passenger search device which searches for a non-boarded passenger includes an image registration unit that registers image data of faces of a plurality of scheduled passengers photographed before a predetermined passage point; a determination unit that determines whether a scheduled passenger whose face is photographed at the passage point is registered in the image registration unit; when the face is photographed at the passage point is registered, a fight number registration unit that registers a flight number which the scheduled passenger is scheduled to board, in association with image data of the face; and a presentation unit that presents position information of the scheduled passenger, based on the image data of the face of the scheduled passenger, the flight number, image data of the face of the scheduled passenger and position information of the plurality of photographing points.

Abstract: A device for tracking freight includes a housing configured for attachment to freight, adhesive disposed on one side of the housing, the adhesive configured for attachment to freight, a cellular network transmitter/receiver located within the housing, a global positioning system (GPS) processor for collecting location data about the device, the GPS processor located within the housing, a temperature sensor for collecting temperature data, the sensor located within the housing, a processor communicatively coupled with the cellular network transmitter/receiver, the GPS processor and the temperature sensor, the processor configured for reading said location data and said temperature data and transmitting said location data and said temperature data via the cellular network transmitter/receiver, and, a power source comprising a battery, the power source conductively coupled to the processor, the cellular network transmitter/receiver, the GPS processor and the temperature sensor.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for predicting a state of a user (e.g., asleep or awake). In some embodiments, the location sharing system accesses historical activity data of the user and extracts historical sleep records from the historical activity data. The system clusters the historical sleep records into a plurality of clusters and extracts a sleep pattern from each one of the plurality of clusters. Then, when the location sharing system receives current activity data of the user, the system can predict whether the user is currently asleep based on the current activity of the user and at least one of the sleep patterns. Some embodiments additionally compute an estimated wake up time of the user. Some embodiments share the predicted physiological state of the user with the user's friends via the map GUI. Some embodiments additionally share the estimated wake up time of the user.

Abstract: Methods and devices and systems including a communication module operatively coupled to a data collection module for communicating the stored analyte related data after the analyte related data is stored in the data collection module over a predetermined time period, and a user interface unit configured to communicate with the communication module to receive from the communication module the stored analyte related data in the data collection module over the predetermined time period, and to output information associated with the monitored analyte level, where the user interface unit is configured to operate in a prospective analysis mode including substantially real time output of information associated with the monitored analyte level, or a retrospective analysis mode including limited output of information during the predetermined time period wherein no information related to the monitored analyte level is output during the predetermined time period, are provided.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a patient includes a sensor unit having a housing and sensors disposed in or around the housing; and a base having a shell and configured and arranged to be adhesively attached to skin of the patient. The sensors can be used to monitor physical therapy and rehabilitation of the patient. The sensor unit can provide information to a patient or clinician device to facilitate the monitoring. In some instances, the sensor unit and base are magnetically coupled together. In some instances, the base has an opening so a temperature sensor of the sensor unit can be exposed to the skin of the patient.

Abstract: Control is performed so as to detect a brain wave or a heartbeat of a driver of a vehicle during automatic driving of the vehicle, and use a plurality of indexes further correlated with sleepiness of the driver among indexes related to the brain wave or the heartbeat of the driver to calculate a concentration index CI, which is an index indicating driving concentration of the driver, at each preset control interval.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a health status of a gradient coil disposed in a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The system includes one or more sensors and a controller. The one or more sensors are operative to obtain one or more parameter readings of the gradient coil, wherein the one or more parameter readings include at least one of an acoustic measurement and a back electromotive force measurement. The controller is in electronic communication with the one or more sensors and operative to generate the health status based on at least one of the acoustic measurement and the back electromotive force measurement.

Abstract: Systems and methods for diurnal curve generations, tracking, and analysis are provided. Based on a user's demographic, or a user's baseline diurnal curve, insights into a user's temperature reading can be produced. Such insights can be used to, for example, assess the probability that the user is experiencing a fever, which can be used in screening for medical diagnostic testing.

Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system and method for determining whether a subject is likely to be disturbed by therapy levels of stimulation provided to the subject during sleep sessions. The present system is configured to automatically identify sensitive users using electroencephalogram (EEG) information from a reference sleep session with or without stimulation. For reference sleep sessions without stimulation, the alpha activity in detected deep sleep is used to predict whether the subject is likely to be disturbed by therapy levels of stimulation. For reference sleep sessions with stimulation, the acute increase in EEG delta (e.g., 0.5-4 Hz) power and/or an arousability index are used to predict whether the subject is likely to be disturbed by therapy levels of stimulation.

Abstract: There is provided a system for monitoring a heart of a subject and monitoring impedance-related parameters, comprising: a feeding tube, an electrode disposed(s) on a distal end of the feeding tube, a controller that performs, while the feeding tube is in located in an esophagus and feeding is delivered to a subject via the feeding tube, in a plurality of iterations: continuously measuring voltage at the electrode(s) of the feeding tube, applying alternating current(s) between the electrode(s) of the feeding tube and at least one other electrode, computing impedance measurement(s) from the electrode(s) of the feeding tube according to the applied alternating current(s) and the measured voltage, computing impedance-related parameter(s) based on the impedance measurement(s), terminating the application of the alternating current(s), obtaining an electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement based on the voltage measured at the electrode(s) of the feeding tube, and providing the impedance-related parameter(s) and the ECG m

Abstract: Described is an energy harvesting system comprising a transducer that generates an electric signal from ambient energy, and a processor adapted to process the electric signal to determine and output a characteristic of a source of the ambient energy. The characteristic may be a spoken word classification.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for alerting temperature is disclosed. The system includes a temperature alert device configured to be housed within a housing, wherein the device is a wearable device including at least a sensor configured to continuously collect the body temperature of the wearer and indicate the body temperature of the wearer continuously through a light emitting mechanism based on the body temperature collected by the sensor in a manner that does significantly deplete battery life of the device.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses systems, devices, and methods for parallelized data structure processing in context of machine learning and reverse proxy servers.

Abstract: A patient uses a token with multiple actuators to request assistance from a healthcare provider. When the patient activates one of the token's actuators, a nearby mobile device receives a signal from the relevant actuator, selects a code depending on which actuator was activated, and sends the code along with location data and a patient identifier to a server. The server uses the identifier to access a patient record for the patient and retrieve insurance data. The server will use the code, the location data and the insurance data to select an appropriate healthcare provider for the patient. The system will transmit a communication to the selected healthcare provider with a phone number for the patient's mobile device so that the healthcare provider can contact the patient.

Abstract: A system and a method may be provided relating to the iris of an eye based on three-dimensional image data acquired by an optical coherence tomography.

Abstract: A modular external infusion device that controls the rate a fluid is infused into an individual's body, which includes a first module and a second module. More particularly, the first module may be a pumping module that delivers a fluid, such as a medication, to a patient while the second module may be a programming module that allows a user to select pump flow commands. The second module is removably attachable to the first module.

Abstract: Hat, helmet, and other headgear apparatus includes dry electrophysiological electrodes and, optionally, other physiological and/or environmental sensors to measure signals such as ECG from the head of a subject. Methods of use of such apparatus to provide fitness, health, or other measured or derived, estimated, or predicted metrics are also disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments provide apparatus, systems, and methods for communicating analyte data and/or related information. In a first aspect, the apparatus includes a transmitter/receiver unit which is configurable as either a transmitter or a receiver. The transmitter/receiver unit may be coupled to an on-body sensor and may be configured as a transmitter, or may be coupled to a management unit and may be configured as a receiver as part of a continuous analyte monitoring system. Analyte data communication systems and methods are provided, as are other aspects.

Abstract: A system is disclosed that monitors participants in health-related programs, such as weight loss or exercise programs, and that provides automated, personalized health coaching to the program participants. The system includes breath analysis devices that are used by the program participants to generate ketone measurements, and includes a mobile application that runs on mobile devices of the participants and communicates with corresponding breath analysis devices. The system operates generally by monitoring ketone levels (such as acetone levels) and other attributes of the participants and by making personalized, machine-generated changes or updates to such programs to maintain program effectiveness and engagement. In some embodiments the system uses artificial intelligence to classify and coach the participants.

Abstract: Systems and methods of wireless sensing of physiological data includes obtaining physiological data from a patient with a wireless sensor. A patient location device determines a location of the patient. A location of the wireless sensor is obtained. The physiological data from the wireless sensor is associated to the patient based upon a determined proximity of the location of the wireless sensor to the location of the patient.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to detect similarities between two or more clinical documents. It is determined that a clinician is currently inputting data into a first clinical document that is associated with a patient. A selectable option is provided on a user interface into which the clinician is currently inputting the data. An indication is received that the selectable option has been selected by the clinician. An algorithm is applied to identify the second clinical document from a plurality of clinical documents. At least a portion of the inputted data in the first clinical document and at least a portion of data in the second clinical document are transformed to generate a new representation of the first clinical document that indicates the similarities that are potentially inaccurate or inappropriate between the first clinical document and the second clinical document.

Abstract: A multi-modal lie detection method and apparatus, and a device to improve an accuracy of an automatic lie detection are provided. The multi-modal lie detection method includes inputting original data of three modalities, namely a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and a to-be-detected text; performing a feature extraction on input contents to obtain deep features of the three modalities; explicitly depicting first-order, second-order and third-order interactive relationships of the deep features of the three modalities to obtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word; performing a context modeling on the integrated multi-modal feature of the each word to obtain a final feature of the each word; and pooling the final feature of the each word to obtain global features, and then obtaining a lie classification result by a fully-connected layer.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an analyte monitoring device having a user interface with a display and a plurality of actuators. The display is configured to render a plurality of display screens, including a home screen and an alert screen. The home screen is divided into a plurality of simultaneously displayed panels, with a first panel displays a rate of change of continuously monitored analyte levels in interstitial fluid, a second panel simultaneously displays a current analyte level and an analyte trend indicator, and a third panel displays status information of a plurality of components of the device. When an alarm condition is detected, the display renders the alert screen in place of the home screen, the alert screen displaying information corresponding to the detected alarm condition. Furthermore, the actuators are configured to affect further output of the analyte monitoring device corresponding to the detected condition.

Abstract: A first medical device can receive a physiological parameter value from a second medical device. The second physiological parameter value may be formatted according to a protocol not used by the first medical device such that the first medical device is not able to process the second physiological parameter value to produce a displayable output value. The first medical device can pass the physiological parameter data from the first medical device to a separate translation module and receive translated parameter data from the translation module at the first medical device. The translated parameter data can be processed for display by the first medical device. The first medical device can output a value from the translated parameter data for display on the first medical device or an auxiliary device.

Abstract: A device may receive medical data associated with potential patients for a clinical trial of a drug, where the medical data includes one or more of multi-omics data associated with the potential patients, genomic profiles of the potential patients, dosage and time associated with the drug, electronic medical records of the potential patients, or clinical trial data associated with the drug. The device may perform, in parallel, a topological data analysis, a non-matrix factorization analysis, and a neural network analysis of the medical data. The device may identify a group of patients, of the potential patients, for the clinical trial of the drug based on performing the topological data analysis, the non-matrix factorization analysis, and the neural network analysis of the medical data, and may provide information identifying the group of patients.

Abstract: An example medical device includes a body portion having a tubular inner wall defining an inner channel, and a tubular outer wall encircling the inner wall. The outer wall defines an outer channel between the outer wall and the inner wall. The body portion also includes an indicator substance disposed within the outer channel. The device also includes an indicator portion defining an indicator channel. The body portion is configured to insert at least in part into a patient, and the indicator portion is configured to remain at least in part along an exterior of the patient when the body portion is inserted into the patient. The device is also configured to transfer at least a portion of the indicator substance from the outer channel to the indicator channel when the body portion is bent.

Abstract: A method for identifying a change associated with a state of health of a user. In one embodiment, the method includes at least one computer processors receiving monitoring data associated with monitoring a user, where the monitoring data is generated by one or more sensors. The method further includes determining a state of health of the monitored user by analyzing the monitoring data utilizing one or more models. The method further includes determining a level of urgency based, at least in part, upon the determine state of health of the monitored user. The method further includes transmitting one or more respective notifications to one or more devices based, at least in part, on the determined state of health of the user and the corresponding level of level of urgency, and where a notification includes a determined state of health and the corresponding determined state of urgency associated with the monitored user.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising: (a) receiving a set of physiological data associated with at least one health condition of an animal subject; (b) receiving a set of environmental data associated with one or more environment conditions to which the subject is or has been exposed; (c) determining a set of operating parameters for at least one environmental device based at least partially on at least a portion of the set of physiological data and at least a portion of the set of environmental data; and (d) transmitting the set of operating parameters to the at least one environmental device to at least partially control at least one controlled environmental condition to which the subject is exposed to thereby at partially control the at least one health condition.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated generation of medical device communication software, cloud-based storage of medical device data including an electronic medical device (EMD) application communication interface and a central communication interface, and user interface software to allow a user device to receive EMD data transmitted from a data storage medium (DSM) and transmit data to the DSM for transmission to the EMD, that meets one or more medical device standards set by government or industry regulatory bodies.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of establishing influence relationships between data in a question-answering environment is disclosed. Establishing influence relationships can include determining a set of conditions indicating a set of user statuses and analyzing, using a first natural language processing technique, a corpus of data including a set of user data. Establishing influence relationships between data can include identifying, based on analyzing the corpus of data, a set of influence factors corresponding to a subset of the set of user data and to a subset of the set of conditions. In embodiments, establishing influence relationships can include establishing, based on the set of influence factors, a set of influence relationships between the subset of the set of user data and the subset of the set of conditions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with modifying a food record database. The method comprises receiving a plurality of food records from a plurality of sources, each of the plurality of food records comprising at least a food record description, the plurality of sources including (i) at least one government agency and (ii) users of the food record database. The method further comprises receiving search requests from users, and returning one or more top search results from the food record database in response. The method also comprises determining a score for a particular food record identified by the top search results, wherein the score is calculated based at least in part on one of: a number of times the particular food record has been included in the top search results of the search requests or a number of times the particular food record has been logged.

Abstract: A position detection apparatus includes a sensor that detects a position pointed to by an electronic pen and circuitry that acquires pen state information regarding the electronic pen held by a person; a transmitter that transmits to an emotion estimation apparatus an emotional state estimation request including the acquired pen state information, the emotion estimation apparatus including a database that stores information regarding an emotional state of the person holding the electronic pen and range information regarding a range of values that may be taken by the pen state information regarding the electronic pen, the emotional state and the range information being associated with one another; and a processor that receives information corresponding to the emotional state transmitted from the emotion estimation apparatus in response to the pen state information included in the transmitted emotional state estimation request, and performs processing using the received information corresponding to the emotiona

Abstract: Systems and electronic processes for reducing electronic alarms in a medical patient monitoring system. For example, a system for reducing electronic alarms can include an optical sensor and one or more hardware processors in electronic communication with the optical sensor. The one or more hardware processors can be programmed to measure oxygen saturation values of a patient over a first period of time, determine if at least one oxygen saturation value obtained over the first period of time exceeds a first alarm threshold, determine whether a first alarm should be triggered based on the determination that the at least one oxygen saturation value obtained over the first period of time exceeds the first alarm threshold, determine a second alarm threshold to be applied during a second period of time subsequent to the first period of time, the second alarm threshold replacing the first alarm threshold.