Patent Document ID: 7697968
Application ID: 11391133
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A storage method in the form of a memory device for predicting a response to tongue-base therapies comprising: generating a plurality of images of an axial view of a patient's upper airway, wherein each image depicts a cross-sectional plane of the patient's upper airway, the cross-sectional plane extending substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of the patient's pharynx; acquiring data indicative of the patient's upper airway from the images, wherein the data comprises at least an anterior/posterior measurement and a lateral measurement both determined from the images of the axial view of the patient's upper airway; and determining a probability of a patient's response to a tongue-base treatment based on the acquired data and patient-specific physiological data, wherein the probability is determined by comparing the acquired data and the patient-specific physiological data for the patient to an expected relationship between similar acquired data and patient-specific physiological data.