US 12,260,555 B2
Post operative implantation site monitoring and medical device performance
Michael Erich Jordan, St. Paul, MN (US)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/217,632.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/018,047, filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0343017 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 30/00 (2018.01); A61B 5/33 (2021.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 7/0016 (2013.01) [A61B 5/33 (2021.01); G06T 7/337 (2017.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); G16H 50/50 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of imaging a body of a patient of an implantable medical device (IMD), the method comprising:
identifying, via processing circuitry of a computing device, a first set of images that represent a particular location of the body in which at least one component of the IMD coincides
determining, from the first set of images, a projection of alteration characteristics of the particular location of the body projected over time, wherein the projection of alteration characteristics includes a projection of healing over time to a future time to indicate that a particular alteration should occur at the future time;
identifying, via the processing circuitry, a second set of images that represent the particular location of the body at a progression interval that follows in time the first set of images;
determining, from the second set of images, a second set of alteration characteristics;
comparing, via the processing circuitry, the second set of alteration characteristics to the projection; and
identifying, based at least in part on the comparison, a potential abnormality at the particular location of the body,
wherein determining the projection comprises:
determining a common alignment reference for aligning the first set of images in a time-lapse representation of the first set of images;
aligning, according to the common alignment reference, a plurality of images from the first set of images to determine the time-lapse representation; and
determining, from the plurality of aligned images, the projection of alteration characteristics.