Management of physiological and psychological state of an individual using images therapeutic imaging classification system

• US 6,798,898 B1
• Filed: 10/29/1999
• Issued: 09/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CareStream Health Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Fedorovskaya, Elena A., Schaefer, Laurie, Mir, Jose M., Prabhu, Girish V., Horwitz, Cecelia M., Patton, David L., Fredlund, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jon
• Application Number:
  US09/430,454
• Time in Patent Office: 1,796 Days
• Field of Search: 382/224, 382/225, 382/226, 382/227, 382/228, 382/100, 382/128, 600/26, 600/544, 600/545, 434/236
• US Class Current: 382/128
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7257 using Fourier transforms
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/70 relating to mental therapies, e.g. psychological therapy or autogenous training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A method for classifying images according to features that are relevant to potential therapeutic effect, comprising: providing an image; and classifying said image according to one or more of the following classes, landscapes, people-activity, people-expression, people-type, animals, color (dominant hue(s)), direction of light, type of light, distance, travel/offset(direction of motion/travel).

Claims

1. A method for an individual to classify images comprising:

generating a personal image profile of an individual based on a combination of physiological and cognitive measures;

providing an image to said individual, said image having been selected by said individual; and

classifying said image according to features that are relevant to potential therapeutic effect to said individual based on said individual'"'"'s personal image profile and according to one or more of the following classes, people-activity, people-expression, people-type, animals, color, direction of light, type of light, distance, travel/offset.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said people-activity classification includes:

static, active (captured at the moment of active moment).

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said people-expression classification includes:

no expression, happy faces, unhappy faces.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said people-type classification includes:

children, family.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said color classification includes:

red, yellow/orange, green, blue, purple/magenta, brown, white/gray, no dominant hue.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said animals classification includes:

unpleasant pets, pleasant pets, unpleasant wild, pleasant wild.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said direction of light classification includes:

front, side, back, zenith, diffuse, multidirectional.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said lighting classification includes:

sun, sunset, hazy/cloudy, indoor, other(shade, light and shade).

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said distance classification includes:

low, medium, high.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said travel/offset classification includes:

centered, right to left/left to right, up to down/down to up, multidirectional.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein said providing step provides a master set of images for presentation to an individual during a therapeutic session, and wherein each of said images in said master set is classified according to said classes.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein said providing step provides a personalized set of images which have been classified according to said classes and which arc chosen to have a therapeutic effect on the individual.