US 12,262,153 B2
Post operative implantation site monitoring
Rodolphe Katra, Blaine, MN (US); Amie Bucksa, Ham Lake, MN (US); and Niranjan Chakravarthy, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/215,419.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/018,063, filed on Apr. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0344880 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 7/18 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 7/188 (2013.01) [A61B 90/361 (2016.02); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G16H 50/70 (2018.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01); A61N 1/37211 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); G16H 15/00 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of monitoring an implantation site of a patient of an implantable medical device (IMD), the method comprising:
determining, via a computing device, identification data for the patient;
identifying, based at least in part on the identification data, IMD information that corresponds to the IMD;
determining, based at least in part on the IMD information, an imaging program that defines one or more parameters for imaging the implantation site;
initiating, by the computing device, an imaging device, the imaging device configured to capture, in accordance with the imaging program, one or more frames of image data of the implantation site, wherein the imaging device is a camera of a mobile computing device, and wherein the implantation site includes one or more of an implant wound site on a body of the patient or an implant-removal site on the body of the patient;
receiving, via the imaging device, at least one frame of the one or more frames, the at least one frame including an image of the implantation site;
identifying, from the at least one frame of the image data, an abnormality at the implantation site;
in response to identifying the abnormality, automatically triggering a supplemental image capture mode, wherein the imaging device, when operating in the supplemental image capture mode, is configured to capture one or more supplemental images of the implantation site;
subsequent to triggering the supplemental image capture mode, receiving, by the computing device, the one or more supplemental images of the implantation site; and
outputting, via the computing device, the one or more supplemental images of the implantation site.