Patent ID: 11877831
Assignee: O/D VISION INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 17:
18. A computing system for artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of images of the outer eye of the individual in order to compute blood pressure of the individual, the computing system comprising:
at least one computing processor; and
memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one computing processor, enable the computing system to:
receive, at a remote server via network communication with a handheld end-user electronics device, a sequence of digital images of at least a portion of the outer eye of an individual, the handheld end-user electronics device comprising a high-magnification camera operable to capture at least one of images and video of blood flowing through vasculature of the outer eye;
compute, by a processor, a vessel measure for at least one blood vessel within a portion of the outer eye of the individual by using at least one computer vision algorithm, wherein the computer vision algorithm extracts pixel value information from at least one pixel for each image in the sequence of digital images and processes the pixel value information to determine at least one image characteristic associated with the sequence of images, the at least one image characteristic comprising at least one of blood vessel diameter, blood vessel wall thickness, blood vessel length, distance between blood vessels or vessel segments, area between blood vessels or vessel segments, and a blood velocity measurement associated with at least one blood vessel or vessel segment, wherein the vessel measure is computed based on the at least one image characteristic;
compute, by a processor, a blood pressure measure for the individual by using an AI analysis algorithm which relates the vessel measure to blood pressure values, wherein the AI analysis algorithm is trained using only data associated with the individual, the data associated with the individual comprising previously acquired and processed images of the outer eye vasculature of the individual and previously obtained blood pressure measurements associated with the individual; and
provide to the handheld end-user electronics device, via network communication, a feedback result to be displayed on the end-user electronics device and/or a provider portal via a telehealth connection, the feedback result comprising at least the computed blood pressure measure.