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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masao Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;

Mitsuru Noma, Tokyo, JP;

Reishi Kondo, Tokyo, JP;

Yumi Arai, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4842 (2013.01); A61B 7/003 (2013.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01);
Abstract

An analysis device includes a detection unit that detects abnormality in lung sounds for each of auscultation positions on the basis of time-series acoustic signals including lung sounds of each of the auscultation positions; a determination unit that determines severity of heart failure of a patient on the basis of a detection result of abnormality in the lung sounds of each of the auscultation positions detected by the detection unit and condition information representing the condition of the patient; and a decision unit that decides an instruction to be output to the patient on the basis of a result of the determination by the determination unit.


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