Patent ID: 11875904
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method of epidemiology transmission probability analysis comprising:
selecting a number of ray origin points in response to a statistical occupancy of a medical facility floor map, a communicability of a specific disease being mapped, or a size of an infectious zone of the specific disease being mapped;
selecting cast rays in response to the number of ray origin points generated, the cast rays stopping upon encountering a physical barrier mapped in the medical facility floor map;
receiving a user input via a user input device operatively connected with the one or more electronic processors wherein the user input defines a porous barrier in the medical facility floor map, the cast rays further stopping upon encountering the porous barrier with a stopping probability indicative of porosity of the porous barrier;
generating an infectious transmission probability map from intersections of the cast rays, wherein the transmission probability map is generated from densities of intersections of the cast rays over the medical facility floor map, the densities incorporating the porosity of the porous physical barrier; and
displaying, on a display, at least a portion of the medical facility floor map overlaid with the infectious transmission probability map, wherein the displayed at least a portion of the medical facility floor map is overlaid with infectious transmission probability by being quantified or color coded as defined by the infectious transmission probability map;
wherein the distributing, the casting, and the computing are performed by one or more electronic processors.