Abstract
An apparatus (10) is disclosed for assisting a medical specialist in providing a diagnosis of a medical condition of a mammal brain. The apparatus (10) includes an input facility (12), a conversion facility (14l, 14r), and an output device (16). In an operational mode the input facility receives a first value (VL) indicative of a brain characteristic of a portion of the first part of the brain for a point in time and a second value (VR) indicative of a brain characteristic of a corresponding portion of the right part of the brain for said point in time. The input facility further receives first reference data (VRL) indicative for a cumulative distribution of the first value for said portion in a reference population and second reference data (VRR) indicative for a cumulative distribution of the second value for the corresponding portion in the reference population. The conversion facility (14L, 14R) determines a third and a fourth value (VRL, VRR). The third value indicates the cumulative probability of the first value according to the first reference data. The fourth value indicates the cumulative probability of the second value according to the second reference data. The output device (16) generates a human accessible output signal (SH) which is indicative for a substantially monotonically increasing function of a difference between the third and the fourth value.
| Original language | English |
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| Patent number | WO/2017/010864 |
| IPC | G06T 7/00 2017.1 |
| Publication status | Published - 19 Jan 2017 |