Patent ID: 11923054
Assignee: UTECH PRODUCTS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An artificial intelligence (AI) platform for processing information collected during a medical procedure, comprising:
an image processing system that processes images captured with a scope during the procedure using an image classifier to identify image-based quality-of-care indicators (QIs), wherein training of the image classifier includes analyzing pictures of landmarks obtained from prior clinical procedures, and wherein at least one of the QIs includes one of a total intubation time or a withdrawal time of the scope calculated with time stamps recorded in response to the image classifier recognizing predefined landmarks in the captured images;
a system for collecting unstructured natural language (NL) uttered during the procedure, wherein the unstructured NL includes informal medical expressions;
a natural language (NL) processing system that processes the unstructured NL and includes:
creating sentences from the unstructured NL;
performing a search and replace to locate informal medical expressions in the sentences and to replace informal medical expressions with standardized expressions from a medical dictionary, wherein the informal medical expressions are located using predefined text patterns determined with an automated learning process;
identifying text-based QIs in the sentences;
classifying sentences into sentence types based on a trained model; and
updating sentences by integrating the image-based QIs with text-based QIs;

an editor for displaying and editing sentences, wherein the editor includes a next word prediction system that utilizes a predictive model, wherein the predictive model trained by:
inputting a training set including word groups,
analyzing each word group to identify a next possible word and probability of the next possible word's appearance, and
building a word hierarchy based on frequency of word usage in the training set; and

an output module configured to output structured data that includes sentences organized by sentence type and images organized by image-based QIs.