General Electric Company

Aghogho Atemu Obi

Tzu-Jen Kao

Nancy Cecelia Stoffel

Guangliang Zhao

Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo

John Eric Tkaczyk

Peter William Lorraine

David Michael Davenport

James William Bray

Vasile Bogdan Neculaes

Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov

Yongjae Lee

Stanislava Soro

Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis

Steven William Wik

Andriy Yaroshenko

Jack Mathew Webster

William Chester Platt

Bruce Courtney Amm

Sm Shajedul Hasan

Richard Jeanluc St Pierre

Esmaeil Heidari

Seog Tae Kim

A neuroactivity monitoring system includes a camera configured to acquire image data of a patient positioned on the patient support and a monitoring device in communication with the camera. The monitoring device uses the acquired image data of the camera to identify and track patient landmarks, such as facial and/or posture landmarks, and, based on the tracked movement, characterize patient neuroactivity.

System and method for neuroactivity detection in infants

The disclosed systems and methods for monitoring a patient in a medical setting may include various types of sensors that obtain data indicative of one or more patient parameters and one or more environmental parameters. One or more processors may process the data to identify a correlation, or causal relationship, between the one or more patient parameters and the one or more environmental parameters. Thus, the systems and methods may be used to identify particular environmental parameters that affect a particular patient to facilitate creation of a suitable environment for the particular patient. The disclosed monitoring systems and methods may be especially useful for sensitive, high-risk, and/or non-verbal patients, such as infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Systems and methods for monitoring a patient

A sensor system includes a first sensor to detect environmental conditions of an environment in operational contact with a subject, a second sensor to detect physiological parameters of the subject in operational contact with an asset, and a control unit comprising one or more processors communicatively coupled with the first sensor and the second sensor. The processors receive a first signal from the first sensor indicative of the environmental conditions, and receive a second signal from the second sensor indicative of the physiological parameters of the subject, and determine a relation between the environmental conditions and the physiological parameters based on the first signal and the second signal. The processors determine a responsive action of the asset based on the first signal indicative of the environmental conditions of the environment or the second signal indicative of the physiological parameters of the subject in operational contact with the asset.

Sensing system and method

There is set forth herein an apparatus comprising: a non-contacting array of sensors adapted for positioning at a position spaced from and proximate a position of a patient; and a signal processing circuit in communication with the array of sensors, wherein the signal processing circuit is configured for: generating a plurality of time varying signals using the array of sensors; processing the plurality of time varying signals; and outputting one or more indicator based on the processing. The apparatus can be adapted for use in a variety of applications including emergency applications such as live birth applications in which neonate resuscitation protocols are observed.

Non-contact heart rate monitoring

A system for measuring nutritional parameters of food items is provided. The system includes a holding cavity. The system further includes a sensor assembly that includes a transmitter antenna and at least one receiver antenna. The transmitter antenna is configured to transmit signals to a food item in the holding cavity. The receiver antenna is configured to receive response signals from the food item. The system includes at least one switch coupled to each antenna. The switch, in a first state, is configured to set the sensor assembly to an electric potential equal to that of the holding cavity. In a second state, the switch is configured to couple the sensor assembly to a power source. The system also includes a processing unit to process the signals received to determine the nutritional parameters of the food item.

System and method for detection of nutritional parameters in food items

A method performed in a medical navigation system includes driving a transmitter at a first frequency and a second frequency to generate first and second electromagnetic fields, wherein the first and second frequencies are sufficiently low such that the first and second electromagnetic fields are frequency independent; receiving first and second distorted fields corresponding to the first and second electromagnetic fields, respectively, with each of at least two electromagnetic (EM) sensors attached to a surgical device; generating first and second signals in response to receiving the first and second distorted fields, respectively, using each of the at least two EM sensors; and determining a distortion in the first and second signals based at least on a distance between the at least two EM sensors and a difference between the first and second signals generated by each of the at least two EM sensors.

Method and system for position orientation correction in navigation

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