Optical measurement apparatus for living body
First Claim
1. An optical measurement apparatus for a living body comprising a light source for generating a light to be irradiated onto an object to be examined, a light measurement means that detects a light transmitted inside the object and generates hemoglobin signals corresponding to hemoglobin changes in the object, an assessing means that analyzes feature amounts of the hemoglobin signals and assesses a disease of the object from the analyzed feature amount, and a display means for displaying disease information of the object,wherein said assessing means comprises:
- an extracting means for extracting various kinds of feature amounts from the hemoglobin signals,a storing means for storing feature amounts of hemoglobin variation signals of multiple diseases in a database;
analyzing means for calculating a similarity of extracted feature amounts of an acquired hemoglobin variation signal with stored feature amounts of hemoglobin variation signals characterizing the multiple stored diseases in order to diagnose a disease of a subject; and
a guantifying means for guantifying the similarity estimated by the analyzing means.
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Abstract
An apparatus which can objectively assess and display to what extent and to which disease the subject belongs based on the signals of changes in hemoglobin amount measured by the optical measurement apparatus is provided. The disease assessment apparatus comprises the feature extraction unit 15 for extracting features of the hemoglobin waveform, the feature analysis unit 16 and the storage unit 12 for storing features by each disease as database. The disease is assessed by extracting various kinds of feature amounts from the hemoglobin signals of the subject measured by the optical measurement apparatus in the feature extraction unit 15 and by applying multivariate analysis of similarities between feature amounts extracted and feature amounts stored by disease in the storage unit 12. Results of assessment are shown as scores expressing similarity with each disease group in a bar graph.
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14 Claims
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1. An optical measurement apparatus for a living body comprising a light source for generating a light to be irradiated onto an object to be examined, a light measurement means that detects a light transmitted inside the object and generates hemoglobin signals corresponding to hemoglobin changes in the object, an assessing means that analyzes feature amounts of the hemoglobin signals and assesses a disease of the object from the analyzed feature amount, and a display means for displaying disease information of the object,
wherein said assessing means comprises: -
an extracting means for extracting various kinds of feature amounts from the hemoglobin signals, a storing means for storing feature amounts of hemoglobin variation signals of multiple diseases in a database; analyzing means for calculating a similarity of extracted feature amounts of an acquired hemoglobin variation signal with stored feature amounts of hemoglobin variation signals characterizing the multiple stored diseases in order to diagnose a disease of a subject; and a guantifying means for guantifying the similarity estimated by the analyzing means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An optical measurement apparatus for a living body comprising a light source for generating a light to be irradiated onto an object to be examined, a light measurement means that detects a light transmitted inside the object and generates hemoglobin signals corresponding to hemoglobin changes in the object, an assessing means that analyzes feature amounts of the hemoglobin signals and assesses a disease of the object from the analyzed feature amount, and a display means for displaying disease information of the object,
wherein said assessing means comprises: -
an extracting means for extracting various kinds of feature amounts from the hemoglobin signals, a storing means for storing feature amounts of each of different disease types in a database, an analyzing means for analyzing feature amounts extracted by the extracting means and for estimating their similarity with the feature amounts of each disease stored in said storing means; and a quantifying means for quantifying the similarity estimated by the analyzing means. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of assessing a disease of an object to be examined using hemoglobin signals of the object measured by optical measurement comprising the steps of:
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measuring hemoglobin signals by optical measurement for a plurality of subjects whose diagnosis of disease among a plurality of disease groups has been established, extracting a plurality of feature amounts from the hemoglobin signal of each subject, storing the feature amounts as data in a database, assessing disease of the object to be examined by extracting a plurality of feature amounts from a hemoglobin signal measured by optical measurement for the object to be examined, calculating a similarity of the extracted feature amounts with data for each disease, and determining a disease having a highest similarity as a disease of the object to be examined. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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