Amcad Biomed Corporation

Edward Chia-Hao Liu

Argon Chen

Chun-Hsiang Yang

Yi-Li Lee

Chiung-Nien Chen

Hao-Chien Wang

Pei-Lin Lee

Chin-Chung Shu

Shu-Ning Yu

The present disclosure provides a positioning method for head and neck assessment comprising positioning a probe to the head and neck structures of a subject according to reference planes defined by light beams.

Method for head and neck assessment or intervention

A method adapted to diagnose airway obstruction in a subject is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: providing plural cross-sectional ultrasound images of a region of the respiratory tract during the subject's normal breathing, wherein each ultrasound image has plural pixels and each pixel has a color scale value; selecting a region of interest in each ultrasound image; calculating a respective first statistic value. The pixels in each of the region of interest are identified to define a respective airspace region by the color scale values larger than or equal to the respective first statistic value. A respective width of the respiratory tract is calculated and based on the distribution of the pixels in the respective airspace region. The status about an airway obstruction in the subject is classified according to the second statistic value obtained by the calculation of the widths of the respiratory tract.

Method adapted to diagnose airway obstruction and system thereof

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Taipei, Taiwan

Edward Chia-Hao Liu