Patent ID: 9349098
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: A61B,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A cognitive medical and industrial inspection system and method for providing cognitive inspection of medical patients and industrial objects, comprising: means for performing cognitive analysis and diagnosis of fused acoustical, non-acoustical, and combinations thereof, inspection data through the use of mathematical techniques that emulate the cognitive processing powers of the human brain including, but not limited to, symbolic cognitive architectures and inference process algebras; means for housing at least one acoustical sensor, at least one acoustical transmitter and at least one electronic processing component; means for processing and digitizing raw acoustical data received from at least one acoustical sensor and at least one acoustical transmitter; means for receiving digitally processed acoustical and non-acoustical inspection data and fusing the inspection data for the purpose of generating additional metadata; means for providing a database of diagnostic signatures including, but not limited to, acoustical, ultrasound, electrocardiography (EKG), computed-tomography (CT), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electromagnetic testing (ET), magnetic particle inspection (MT or MPI), magnetic flux leakage testing (MFL), liquid penetrant, radiographic (x-ray and gamma ray), eddy-current testing, low coherence interferometry, and combinations thereof (i.e., multi-modality inspection signatures) that characterize conditions being diagnosed; means for performing cognitive analysis of fused inspection data and interpreting the results against a database of inspection signatures characterizing conditions being diagnosed, with the ability to anticipate abnormal conditions that fall outside inspection signature patterns contained within the database; and means for enabling at least one operator to analyze, interpret and manage the inspection process.