Detailed solution introduction
Soteria One Point Zero is a diagnostic and treatment software for obstructive sleep apnea. It successfully combined the analytical techniques and Information and Communications Technology which include medical image analysis, 3D reconstruction, computational fluid dynamics, cloud computing, big data analytics and AI.
The combination of the techniques has been applied on three scenarios:
1. Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) [including children]
2. Treatment of OSA with oral appliance [including children]
3. Compare upper airway condition before and after head and neck surgery [including children]
Soteria One Point Zero is a fast and effective OSA diagnostic & treatment assistive software. It utilizes the equipment that health institutions already got, there is no extra hardware required. The operation procedures go like this: Patient first take Cone Beam Computed Tomography scan or CBCT scan of the head and neck region, then the scanned images are uploaded to the software and the software analyzes the images in the background and generates a report providing flow velocity and pressure within the airway. With these information, the obstructive condition of the airway can be found.
Compare with current gold standard which is sleep study, following are the benefits. For patients, they get faster diagnosis/treatment plan, reduce waiting time. The software provides anatomical information to doctors which can improve treatment success rate. Hospitals can use this software to discover suitable OSA patients for the treatment with oral appliance faster, which increase service volume. And for oral appliance manufacturers, as with the benefit for the hospital, sales volume of oral appliance can be increased.