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7620450 |
Method and system for removing noise by using change in activity pattern
A noise removal method and system using a change in activity pattern, in which it is recognized that noise components exist in different frequency bands and different filters for removing noise are...
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7616988 |
System and method for detecting an involuntary muscle movement disorder
Methods and systems are directed to evaluating a pathological condition and involve acquiring muscle movement signals, such as electromyogram (EMG) or accelerometer signals, and detecting the...
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7613510 |
Biofeedback device displaying results on a cellular phone display
Biofeedback information is measured at a body part of a user. The information is communicated to a cellular telephone device and used to produce a display on a display screen of the cellular...
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7599735 |
Electrode configuration for central nervous system monitoring
The invention relates to a method for positioning electrodes in an electrode array comprising a plurality of electrodes for central nervous system (CNS) monitoring from the forehead of a subject....
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7593768 |
Detection of smooth muscle motor activity
A system and method for determining smooth muscle motor activity in body organs. The system comprises electrodes for recording an analog signal in the subject's body, an analog to digital converter...
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7583994 |
Apparatus for localizing a focal lesion in a biological tissue section
An apparatus for localizing a focal lesion in a biological tissue section applies electrical excitation signals to the tissue section and measures electrical response signals at a number of...
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7583991 |
Attachable surface electrode for laryngeal electromyography
An electrode for laryngeal electromyography that is adhesively secured to an insert device, endotracheal tube or other similar device. The attachable surface electrode of this invention consists of...
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7582058 |
Surgical access system and related methods
A system for accessing a surgical target site and related methods, involving an initial distraction system for creating an initial distraction corridor, and an assembly capable of distracting from...
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7577476 |
System and method for transducing, sensing, or affecting vaginal or body conditions, and/or stimulating perineal musculature and nerves using 2-way wireless communications
A system and method are provided for transducing vaginal conditions, affecting vaginal or body conditions, and/or stimulating perineal musculature and nerves. A separate, portable, non-implanted...
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7562057 |
System and method for hyper-spectral analysis
An improved method and system for classifying tissue samples comprises determining a tissue type classification based on spectral data of training samples of known target classification. Denoised...
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7555347 |
Identification of target site for implantation of a microstimulator
Devices and methods for locating a target site for the electrical stimulation of muscles are disclosed. The intensity of a search stimulus is varied continuously near the threshold to evoke an...
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7554549 |
System and method for tracking facial muscle and eye motion for computer graphics animation
A motion tracking system enables faithful capture of subtle facial and eye motion using a surface electromyography (EMG) detection method to detect muscle movements and an electrooculogram (EOG)...
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7542804 |
Neuromuscular stimulation to avoid pulmonary embolisms
A system and method that provide a prophylactic treatment to a person, e.g., a patient, to avoid the occurrence of pulmonary embolisms by the system providing neuromuscular stimulation to a...
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7532925 |
Apparatus and method of evaluating degree of work comfort
An apparatus and method for evaluating the degree of work comfort of a user is disclosed. A pair of sensors detect myoelectric potentials of a pair of bilaterally symmetrical muscles. A waveform...
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7522953 |
System and methods for performing surgical procedures and assessments
The present invention involves systems and related methods for performing surgical procedures and assessments, including the use of neurophysiology-based monitoring to: (a) determine nerve...
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7502649 |
Gastrointestinal methods and apparatus for use in treating disorders
A method is provided for detecting a change in posture of a subject. An electrical impedance is measured between two or more sites on a stomach ( 20 ) of the subject, and an impedance signal is...
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7496400 |
Sensor arrangement
Sensor arrangement for measuring anesthesia parameters from the head of a patient the sensor arrangement comprising a base element and an array of electrodes and an optical sensor for monitoring...
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7493157 |
Devices and methods for the non-invasive detection of spontaneous myoelectrical activity
A method of detecting neuromuscular pathology in an individual is disclosed comprising the steps of placing a detector on the skin surface of the individual substantially adjacent to a skeletal...
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7486988 |
Method and system for adaptive vision modification
Methods and systems for modifying or enhancing vision are described. In exemplary embodiments, neural or neuromuscular activity is analyzed to determine a focus or other quality of a visual input,...
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7486987 |
Work comfort evaluating device and work comfort evaluating method
A work comfort evaluating device is a device for evaluating a level of comfort of work by measuring myoelectric potentials of plural muscles when the work is done by antagonistic activities of the...
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7472702 |
Method and device responsive to diaphragmatic activity for adjusting positive pressure assist during expiration
A method and device for controlling positive pressure assist to a patient during expiration, measure a level of electrical activity of a patient's respiration-related muscle during expiration. In...
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7467010 |
Stress-at-work evaluating device and method
A stress-at-work evaluating device evaluates a stress of a subject at work by measuring activities of one of the right and the left masseter muscles, the work including exercise of arms or feet of...
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7452335 |
Method and apparatus for the detection of neuromuscular disease using disease specific evoked neuromuscular response analysis
A method and apparatus for assessing neuromuscular pathology in an individual, by (a) applying a plurality of stimuli to a peripheral nerve; (b) recording from the peripheral nerve, or from a...
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7447542 |
Three-dimensional monitoring of myographic activity
A system comprising an electromyogram (EMG) system operative to sense electromyographic activity generated in a muscle, at least one position sensor, and a processor in communication with the EMG...
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7433733 |
Motion measurement method, motion measurement system, and motion measurement program
A method, system, and program enabling a variable varying with an animal's motions to be accurately measured. First, a reference relational expression representing a relation between myoelectric...
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7427271 |
Diagnosis of fertility status by folliculogenesis monitoring in the vagina
Methods and apparatus for interpreting vaginal measurement data by electronic means without the need for the user to take part in the data interpretation process. More specifically, an intelligent...
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7421293 |
Stress-at-work judging apparatus, stress-at-work judging program, and stress-at-work judging method
A stress-at-work judging apparatus, program, and method for judging the stress exerted on the subject at work such as steering of a vehicle by the subject. An myoelectric potential signal of the...
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RE40470 |
Body function measuring apparatus
Body function measuring apparatus which provides: (1) an indication of the body function being measured, and (2) a loose probe condition by determining that the difference between the rate of...
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7409242 |
Active muscle display device
In order to provide an active muscle display unit that extracts a firing pattern of the individual motor unit without applying a load to living organisms and display the extracted motor unit, the...
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7407485 |
Monitoring pain-related responses of a patient
The invention relates to monitoring of pain-related responses in a patient in order to detect the level of pain experienced by the patient. At least one first measurement signal is acquired from...
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RE40427 |
Apparatus and method for movement coordination analysis
Methods and devices are provided for evaluating among the limbs of a subject the distribution of impairments of the subject's ability to coordinate the muscular contractions to execute effective...
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7381185 |
Method and apparatus for detecting physiologic signals
The invention analyzes relationships between factors, within a patient population, to identify autonomic dysfunction patterns. Patient test results are then compared with the identified patterns to...
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7379767 |
Attachable and size adjustable surface electrode for laryngeal electromyography
An electrode for laryngeal electromyography that is attachable to an insert device, endotracheal tune or other similar device that is also size adjustable by cutting to size. The attachable and...
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7365647 |
Kinesthetic training system with composite feedback
An apparatus for training a subject to perform a specified physical activity is based on the presence of two or more kinesthetic body sensors, whether mounted on the body or separately from the...
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7363069 |
EMG electrode apparatus and positioning system
A system for detecting and analyzing electrical activity in the anatomy of an organism underlying an electrode array provides signals corresponding to electrical activity adjacent each electrode....
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7353058 |
Bio-impedance sensing device for homecare and eHealth
The impedance measuring device of the present invention is a self-operated pressure point impedance measuring device. The device can quantitatively measure the impedance of the pressure point in...
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7346312 |
Wireless neural data acquisition system
A Wireless Neural Data Acquisition System for increased power efficiency, compact size, robust signaling and reliable transmission is shown and described. In one embodiment, the system includes a...
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7330753 |
Analysis of eating habits
Diet evaluation gastric apparatus ( 18 ) is provided, which detects when a patient ( 10 ) swallows, and detects the type and amount of matter ingested. The apparatus includes electrodes ( 74, 100 )...
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7313957 |
Apparatus, method and program for evaluating work characteristic
During a driving activity of an automobile, a work characteristic evaluating apparatus is provided for judging a factor (a physical work load or a mental load) of stress that a work activity places...
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7288943 |
Electroimpedance tomograph with common-mode signal suppression
An electroimpedance tomograph is provided with a plurality of electrodes ( 1 ), which can be placed on the body of a patient and are connected to a control and evaluating unit ( 20 ) via a selector...
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7283875 |
Nerve stimulation device
A nerve stimulation device has a pulse generator for generating stimulation pulses and an output for the stimulation pulses from the pulse generator, which is connectable to an electrode...
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7283867 |
Implantable system and methods for acquisition and processing of electrical signals from muscles and/or nerves and/or central nervous system tissue
Improved assemblies, systems, and methods provide an MES processor for acquisition and processing of myoelectric signals from muscles, nerves, or central nervous system tissue, or any combination....
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7283866 |
Needle having multiple electrodes
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to needles having more than one electrode and which are particularly suited for use in electromyography. One embodiment relates to a tripolar needle...
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7252090 |
Selection of neurostimulator parameter configurations using neural network
In general, the invention is directed to a technique for selection of parameter configurations for a neurostimulator using neural networks. The technique may be employed by a programming device to...
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7237712 |
Implantable device and communication integrated circuit implementable therein
An implantable device and a wireless communication integrated circuit (IC) implementable in the implantable device for communicating with a remote unit, wherein the communication IC is capable of...
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7235050 |
Implantable device for processing neurological signals
An implantable device comprising a sensing unit, wherein the sensing unit is adapted to rectify biological/neurological signals in the form of sensed electrical signals from body tissue adjacent to...
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7228169 |
Method and apparatus for determining the cerebral state of a patient with fast response
A method and apparatus for ascertaining the cerebral state of a patient. The method/apparatus may find use in ascertaining the depth of anesthesia of the patient. In one embodiment, the entropy of...
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7225016 |
Implantable medical device with nerve signal sensing
An implantable medical device which has a sensor that provides a waveform to an energy accumulator, such as a capacitor. The waveform is representative of electrical activity from a nerve. The...
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7214197 |
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring system
An intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring system includes an adaptive threshold detection circuit adapted for use in monitoring with a plurality of electrodes placed in muscles which are...
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7207949 |
Surgical access system and related methods
A surgical access system including a tissue distraction assembly and a tissue retraction assembly, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of...
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