BERALL, GLENN,CASAS, MICHAEL J.,CHAU, THOMAS T.K.,KENNY, DAVID J.
申请号：
CA2570202
公开号：
CA2570202C
申请日:
2005.06.17
申请国别(地区):
CA
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
A system and method for detecting swallowing activity is provided. In anembodiment, a method includes receiving an electronic signal from anacceleronic signal from an accelerometer that represents swallowing activity,extracting at least two features from the signal, classifying the signal as atype of swallowing activity based on the extracted features, and generating anoutput of the classification. Exemplary activities include swallows,aspirations, movement and vocal artifacts. By indicating whether an activityis a swallow or an aspiration, the manner in which a patient afflicted with anincreased likelihood for aspirations is fed can be adjusted to increase thelikelihood of achieving a swallow instead of an aspiration during feeding. Inturn this could reduce hospitalizations for aspiration pneumonia in patientswith acute or chronic injury.
