US 11,786,156 B2
Method and apparatus for use in detecting malingering by a first subject in tests of physical and/or mental function of the first subject
Murray Fulton Gillies, Eindhoven (NL); Reza Sharifi Sedeh, Malden, MA (US); and Daisy Van Minde, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 16/756,635
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Dec. 13, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/084650
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 16, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/115658, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/598,128, filed on Dec. 13, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 18176671 (EP), filed on Jun. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0323475 A1, Oct. 15, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/16 (2006.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/16 (2013.01) [A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 5/74 (2013.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for use in detecting malingering by a first subject in a test of physical and/or mental function of the first subject, the apparatus comprising:
a processor;
a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions, which when executed by the processor causes the processor to:
receive population information relating to a plurality of subjects, comprising results for the plurality of subjects resulting from completing different mental and/or physical function tests, and an indication for each result whether a subject is malingering;
receive a user input from a user of the apparatus, the received user input indicating a user requirement for detecting malingering by the first subject;
process the received population information to determine a plurality of models;
following receipt of an indication that the first subject may be malingering in one or more physical and/or mental function tests, retrieve, from the non-transitory computer readable medium, an identity of a first set of physical and/or mental function tests for a model in the instructions that meets the indicated user requirement;
identify a respective set of physical and/or mental function tests from a plurality of different physical and/or mental function tests used to detect malingering by a subject and that meets one or more possible user requirements for detecting malingering; and
output a control signal to a testing device indicating the retrieved identity of the first set of physical and/or mental function tests such that the testing device provides the identified first set of physical and/or mental function tests to the first subject for completion.