US 12,257,073 B2
System and method for identifying fluid retention in a body part
Shamus Louis Godfrey Husheer, Borehamwood (GB); Oriane Elisabeth Chausiaux, Cambridge (GB); and Gareth Paul Williams, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to HEARTFELT TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Cambridge (GB)
Appl. No. 17/271,604
Filed by Heartfelt Technologies Ltd., Cambridge (GB)
PCT Filed Aug. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/057279
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/044277, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1814230 (GB), filed on Aug. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0393199 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 5/4878 (2013.01) [G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20036 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A system for identifying fluid retention in a body part of the patient, the system comprising:
a measuring instrument comprising a depth sensing camera apparatus to provide a three-dimensional imaging of the body part and associating three-dimensional data with a three-dimensional model of the body part to yield an actual measurement of a first body parameter indicative of a size of the body part;
a measurement data comparison unit configured to compare the actual measurement of the body part with an estimated measurement for the first body parameter of the body part, wherein the estimated measurement is obtained by measuring a second body parameter of the body part that is correlated with the first body parameter; and
a diagnostic unit configured to determine fluid retention in the body part of the patient based on a result of comparing the actual and estimated measurements by the comparison unit.