Medical treatment assist apparatus, medical treatment assist method, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025266141-A1
Application number	US-202519050252-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 11, 2025
Priority date	Feb 21, 2024
Publication date	Aug 21, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

This medical treatment assist apparatus includes: an acquiring section for acquiring medical information regarding a patient, content information which indicates the content of an exchange in a medical examination between the patient and a person examining the patient, and state information regarding the feelings of the patient in the medical examination; an explanatory text generating section for generating explanatory text regarding a matter which is inferred to make the patient feel uneasy, with use of a language model generated by machine learning, the medical information, the content information, and the state information; and an outputting section for outputting the explanatory text.

First claim

1 . A medical treatment assist apparatus, comprising
at least one processor, the at least one processor carrying out: an acquiring process of acquiring medical information regarding a patient, content information which indicates content of an exchange in a medical examination between the patient and a person examining the patient, and state information regarding feelings of the patient in the medical examination; an explanatory text generating process of generating explanatory text regarding a matter which is inferred to make the patient feel uneasy, with use of a language model generated by machine learning, the medical information, the content information, and the state information; and an outputting process of outputting the explanatory text.

2 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor further carries out a feelings analyzing process of analyzing the feelings of the patient in the medical examination, and in the acquiring process, the at least one processor acquires the state information which includes an analysis result provided by the feelings analyzing process.

3 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
in the acquiring process, the at least one processor acquires speech data representing a speech picked up in the medical examination, and converts the speech data into the content information in text format.

4 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
in the acquiring process, the at least one processor carries out speaker recognition based on the speech data and transcribes, speaker by speaker, what speakers say, to generate the content information which represents content of a speaker-by-speaker speech.

5 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
in the explanatory text generating process, the at least one processor refers to the state information to determine whether the patient is feeling uneasy, and generates the explanatory text in a case of a determination that the patient is feeling uneasy.

6 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the state information includes information which indicates at least one selected from the group consisting of a facial expression, a manner of speaking, a vital sign, and a feelings analysis result of the patient in the medical examination.

7 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the medical information includes at least one selected from the group consisting of personal information regarding the patient, information on findings shown by a medical examination performed on the patient, and medical history information regarding the patient.

8 . The medical treatment assist apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the explanatory text is used in decision-making by the patient regarding medical treatment.

9 . A medical treatment assist method, comprising:
at least one processor acquiring medical information regarding a patient, information which indicates content of an exchange in a medical examination between the patient and a person examining the patient, and state information regarding feelings of the patient in the medical examination; the at least one processor generating explanatory text regarding a matter which is inferred to make the patient feel uneasy, with use of a language model generated by machine learning, the medical information, the content information, and the state information; and the at least one processor outputting the explanatory text.

10 . A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium having recorded thereon a medical treatment assist program for causing a computer to function as a medical treatment assist apparatus, the medical treatment assist program causing the computer to carry out:
an acquiring process of acquiring medical information regarding a patient, content information which indicates content of an exchange in a medical examination between the patient and a person examining the patient, and state information regarding feelings of the patient in the medical examination; an explanatory text generating process of generating explanatory text regarding a matter which is inferred to make the patient feel uneasy, with use of a language model generated by machine learning, the medical information, the content information, and the state information; and an outputting process of outputting the explanatory text.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Sakamoto Hirokazu
• Kiyuna Tomoharu
• Kimura Tatsu

Classifications

• G16H80/00

  ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring · CPC title

• G16H20/00 Primary

  ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance · CPC title

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G16H50/20 Primary

  for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems · CPC title