Body-Sensing Tank Top with Biofeedback System for Patients with Scoliosis

摘要

A garment, in a form of tank top, for monitoring patient-related signals of a patient having scoliosis and thereby enabling the patient to obtain a personalized biofeedback is provided. The garment are integrated with plural sensors, a sensor interface and a smart control unit (SCU), allowing the patient-related signals to be non-intrusively measured by the sensors while maintaining comfort to the patient when the patient wears the garment. The SCU is communicable with the sensors via the sensor interface and aggregates the patient-related signals. A computing server outside the garment receives the aggregated patient-related signals from the SCU via a user access device such as a smartphone, and processes the aggregated patient-related signals to generate the personalized biofeedback, which is then forwarded to the user access device for presentation to the patient. Machine learning algorithms are used to process the patient-related signals in generating the biofeedback.

主权项

1. A garment for monitoring patient-related signals of a patient having scoliosis and thereby enabling the patient to obtain a personalized biofeedback based on the patient-related signals, the garment comprising plural sensors, a sensor interface and a smart control unit (SCU), wherein:
the plural sensors, the sensor interface and the SCU are integrated in the garment, allowing the patient-related signals to be non-intrusively measured by the sensors while maintaining comfort to the patient when the patient wears the garment; the SCU is communicable with the sensors via the sensor interface and is configured to aggregate the patient-related signals measured by the sensors; the SCU is configured to be communicable with a computing server outside the garment via a user access device, where the computing server is configured to process the aggregated patient-related signals sent from the SCU to generate the personalized biofeedback, and configured to forward the personalized feedback to the user access device for presentation to the patient; and the garment is configured to electrically power the sensors, the sensor interface and the SCU but neither the user access device nor the computing server so that the personalized biofeedback is obtainable by the patient without a need for the garment to spend electrical power to process the patient-related signals in generating the personalized biofeedback.