US PATENT SUBCLASS 128 / 920
COMPUTER ASSISTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS


Current as of: June, 1999
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128 /   HD   SURGERY

920COMPUTER ASSISTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS {4}
921  DF  .~> Diet management
922  DF  .~> Including image analysis
923  DF  .~> By comparison of patient data to other data {1}
925  DF  .~> Neural network


DEFINITION

Classification: 128/920

COMPUTER ASSISTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS:

Collection of art wherein a programmable data processing machine is directly utilized to make a decision regarding the nature of a patient's malady, or for validating the verity of such decision made by a person.

(1) Note. This subclass is not intended to accumulate cross reference patents to a medical diagnostic device wherein a computer is utilized merely for the purpose of data correction or for aiding in the relative placement of patient and medical equipment. Such use of computers generally will be found in the subclass providing for the treatment device or method.

(2) Note. Included herein are cross reference patents which use a computer to prescribe a medical treatment for a malady wherein the decision regarding the nature of the malady is implied and the decision is not ancillary to the operation of a particular treating device, such as a computer controlled pacemaker.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

600, Surgery,

300+, for diagnostic testing.