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

Claim 9:
10. A method for processing information collected during a medical procedure, comprising:
capturing images and unstructured natural language (NL) during a medical procedure, wherein the unstructured NL includes informal medical expressions;
processing the images using an image classifier to identify image-based quality-of-care indicators (QIs) including procedure time metrics, wherein training of the image classifier includes analyzing pictures of landmarks obtained from prior clinical procedures;
creating sentences from the unstructured NL;
performing a search and replace to locate informal medical expressions 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 using a trained model, the trained 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,

updating sentences by integrating the image-based QIs with text-based QIs; and
outputting structured data that includes sentences organized by sentence type.