Posture state classification for a medical device
First Claim
1. A system, comprising:
- a sensor adapted to provide a signal indicative of a posture state of a patient;
one or more processors adapted to, based on the signal, determine a parameter value indicative of the posture state and determine whether the posture state of the patient is stable, and only if the posture state is stable, to create an association between the parameter value indicative of the posture state and a corresponding therapy parameter value; and
a memory adapted to store the association.
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Abstract
Techniques relate to operating a medical device in response to a detected posture state of a patient. A trigger event such as a request to modify how therapy is being delivered to the patient may cause a determination to be made as to whether the patient'"'"'s posture state is stable. If the posture state is stable, an association is created between the posture state and one or more therapy parameter values. Over time, a library of such associations is created that may reflect any posture state in three dimensional space, wherein a posture state comprises at least one of a posture and an activity component. The library of associations may be used to automatically control therapy delivery. Similar ones of the associations may automatically be grouped into posture state regions to facilitate more efficient classification of the patient'"'"'s posture state to control therapy delivery.
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58 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
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a sensor adapted to provide a signal indicative of a posture state of a patient; one or more processors adapted to, based on the signal, determine a parameter value indicative of the posture state and determine whether the posture state of the patient is stable, and only if the posture state is stable, to create an association between the parameter value indicative of the posture state and a corresponding therapy parameter value; and a memory adapted to store the association. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method, comprising:
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obtaining a signal indicative of a posture state of a patient; determining, with one or more processors and based on the signal, a parameter value indicative of the posture state; determining, with the one or more processors and based on the signal, whether the patient is in a stable posture state; and only if the patient is in a stable posture state, storing an association between the parameter value indicative of the posture state and at least one therapy parameter value. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions to cause a processor to:
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obtain, based on a sensor signal, a parameter value indicative of a posture state of a patient; determine whether the parameter value indicates the patient is in a stable posture state; and only if the patient is in a stable posture state, create an association between the parameter value indicative of the posture state and at least one therapy parameter value used to control delivery of therapy to the patient. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A system, comprising:
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processor means for obtaining a signal indicative of a posture state of a patient, for determining based on the signal whether the posture state is stable, for determined based on the signal a parameter value indicative of the posture state, and for creating an association between the parameter value indicative of the posture state and a corresponding therapy parameter value only if the at least one posture state is stable; and memory means for storing the association.
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51. A medical device, comprising:
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a sensor adapted to provide a signal indicative of a posture state of a patient; and one or more processors adapted to, based on the signal, determine a parameter value indicative of the posture state and determine whether the posture state of the patient is stable, and only if the posture state is stable, to create an association between the determined parameter value indicative of the posture state and a corresponding therapy parameter value. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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