合作类型：技术  行业类别: 生物科学与健康 过期时间：2017年10月23日    

 一家西班牙的创业公司开发了一款创新的智能手机应用可以评估和跟踪运动障碍，比如帕金森、亨廷顿和肌张力障碍。该应用帮助智能手机成为工具帮助病人和复健师建立基准和跟踪过程。该公司希望与合作伙伴进行技术协助下的商业合作。

Summary:

Spanish start-up has developed an innovative mobile application for evaluation and tracking of movement disorders such as Parkinson, Hungtington or dystonia. It provides a tool, using a Smartphone, that helps the patient and the physician to benchmark and track progress. The company is looking for commercial agreements with technical assistance.

Details:

Nowadays, there are over 30 million people affected by diseases such as Parkinson, Hungtington or dystonia in Europe and the U.S. This kind of diseases, produce movement disorders, which are directly related to the advancement of the illness, and determine the proper treatment dosage for the patients.

There is a clear relationship between the tremors of a patient and the disease status. A correct evaluation of the patient movements help determine if treatment or medication dosages are working properly.

 Nevertheless, neurologists do not have a tool that allows them to know objectively if the patient shakes more or less time than last time.

This technology provides a tremor measuring tool and monitors progress of patients and even helps in early detection of certain disorders.

It works using image analysis techniques and the Smartphone camera or Smart TV to analyze and quantify the movements of different body parts. It analyzes pictures apart in time by 100 milliseconds and measures the changes between them. If the patient has not moved, the two pictures are identical and there is no difference. All the images of the video are processed in order to obtain a final report.

Differences between frames are treated by different functions (non Zero or Peak Signal Noise Ratio), and facial recognition techniques and 3D pose estimation of different parts of the body are used.

Although video processing tries to correct some situations, it is recommended to performance the recording in a controlled environment regarding camera movement, lighting conditions and distance to the patient. Because of that, it is recommended to use any conventional smartphone tripod.

Type and Role of Partners Sought:

- Type of partner sought:

ICT integrators

- Specific area of activity of the partner:

Healthcare, health insurers and pharmaceutical.

- Task to be performed:

To integrate this technology within the partner solutions porfolio under commercial agreent with technical assistance.