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BLEEDING RISK INDEX (BRI) PREDICTION ALGORITHM
Published Monday, November 7, 2022Hemorrhage is the most common cause of preventable death on the battlefield and in civilian trauma care. Triaging patients that may have life-threatening bleeding in the field is essential for distinguishing those who need trauma center care, early control of bleeding, and blood transfusion. The UMB inventors developed the Bleeding Risk Index (...
Investigator(s): Peter Hu, Colin Mackenzie, Shiming Yang, Hegang Chen, Konstantinos Kalpakis
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare
Keyword(s): Clinical decision support; blood transfusion; triage
Docket: PH-2014-007; PH-2016-074
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Real-Time Critical-Care Patient Vital Signs Viewer System
Published Monday, November 7, 2022Our team of trauma care specialists at University of Maryland, Baltimore built the “Real-Time Critical-Care Patient Vital Signs Viewer System” (the “VS Viewer”) as a custom-designed physiological data display system that allows for bedside and remote monitoring of critically ill patients. In fact, the system has reliably been running...
Investigator(s): Peter Hu, Shiming Yang, Colin Mackenzie, Thomas Scalea, Lynn Stansbury, Deborah Stein
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Trauma care; remote monitor; clinical decision support tool
Docket: PH-2012-076
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A Data Visualization Tool to Explore Multidimensional Clinical Datasets
Published Monday, June 19, 2017WinnowTM is an innovative tool to efficiently sift through arrays of longitudinal data, identify patterns, generate hypotheses, and subject these hypotheses to rigorous statistical analysis. It has an intuitive, interactive and insightful platform- valuable to all...
Investigator(s): Lisa Shulman, MD ; Amitabh Varshney, PhD
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare, Information Technology, Genomics/Proteomics/Database
Keyword(s): Software; Algorithm; Healthcare; Information Technology; Data Analytics
Docket: LS-2017-024
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Prompt Gamma Imaging System for Proton Range Verification using a Compton Camera
Published Tuesday, April 11, 2017Range uncertainty in the exact position of the distal dose gradient of a proton beam delivered within a patient during radiotherapy (RT) can lead to underdosing of the tumor or to excessive dosing to adjacent healthy tissues or critical organs at risk. The unwanted side effects and complications due this uncertainty is...
Investigator(s): Jerimy Polf, PhD
Categories: Devices, Imaging devices, Software + Algorithm, Healthcare
Keyword(s): Radiotherapy; medical imaging; prompt gamma; compton camera; range verification
Docket: JP-2015-137
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Surrogate-Based Prediction Model for Real-Time Tumor Monitoring during Radiotherapy
Published Friday, March 31, 2017To ensure tumor-targeting accuracy over the course of radiation treatment while minimizing the dosimetric impact to healthy tissue, respiratory surrogate models are utilized to monitor tumor position while compensating for tumor motion. These models are developed from a training dataset of concurrent tumor positions and...
Investigator(s): Warren D’Souza PhD
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare, Methods of Treatment
Keyword(s): radiology; medical imaging; image-guided radiation therapy
Docket: WD-2010-069
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Techniques for Converting Analog Medical Video to Digital Objects
Published Thursday, May 29, 2014The present invention relates to converting analog medical video data to a digital object that associates descriptive data with the video, and in particular, to forming digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) objects from analog medical video data in a legacy data collection system.
Investigator(s): Paul Nagy
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare
Keyword(s): medical, video, digital
Docket: PN-2006-047
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Method for Teaching and Evaluating decision-Making Skills Through Computer-Based Simulation
Published Wednesday, May 28, 2014Researchers in the Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, have developed a software tool to aid faculty in teaching students clinical decision-making in patient care as well as the interrelationships between medicine and other disciplines. The software is used to design medical case studies of patients that recreate...
Investigator(s): Bruce Jarrell, Craig Skinner, John Raczek, Noble Jarrell, John Flowers
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare, Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): Computer-Based Simulation, simulation, teaching, evaluating
Docket: BJ-2004-032
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Medication Management Instrument for Deficiencies in the Elderly (MedMalDE)
Published Wednesday, May 28, 2014Denise Orwig and Nicole Brandt at University of Maryland Baltimore, have developed a questionnaire for the use of nonmedical personnel (untrained caregivers such as family members, volunteers, or staff aides) to assess an older adult's ability to manage medications in the home setting.
Investigator(s): Denise Orwig, Nicole Brandt
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare
Keyword(s): software, education
Docket: DO-2002-045
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Lower extremity gain scores (LEGS)
Published Wednesday, May 28, 2014The LEGS is a portable performance-based assessment designed to assess recovery after a hip fracture by providing concrete norms that can serve as benchmarks over the course of recovery.
Investigator(s): Jay Magaziner, Sheryl Zimmerman, William Hawkes, J. Richard Hebel
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Healthcare
Keyword(s): hip fracture, LEGS
Docket: JM-2003-019
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Inhibition Of Metastatic Tumors
Published Wednesday, May 28, 2014Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States. Death of cancer patients is most often caused by metastatic spread of tumor cells from the primary tumor site through the bloodstream where the cells lie dormant for long periods. These dormant cells will invade secondary sites such as the lung, liver or kidney where they develop...
Investigator(s): Stuart Martin, Rebecca Whipple, Agnes Cheung
Categories: Devices, Imaging devices, Software + Algorithm, Healthcare, Education/Training/Multimedia
Docket: SM-2006-059