DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF SETTING UP A HEADSET FOR CRANIAL ACCELEROMETRY

• Main Authors: MÜLLER, Nicolas, HAGER, Stefan, COOK, Dave M, MITTERMEYER, Stephan, SCHUMACHER, Ray
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.07.2024
• Subjects: DIAGNOSIS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS; SURGERY

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of analyzing the setup of an array of acceleration sensors on an anatomical body part of a patient encompasses acquisition of acceleration data using a cranial headset having acceleration sensors and determining an appropriate contact of the acceleration sensor to the patient's head, detecting, marking, filtering out, or removing different kinds of noise as well as acceleration signals which are considered to be due to gross patient movement. This is done to determine whether the setup of the headset on the patient's head is good enough to generate measurement signals of acceptable quality. If this is the case, the headset is subsequently used to acquire continuous datasets of acceleration data which is then evaluated to determine the patient's physiological status.