CN117731236A - Erectile function monitoring method and system - Google Patents

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CN117731236A
CN117731236A CN202311447394.0A CN202311447394A CN117731236A CN 117731236 A CN117731236 A CN 117731236A CN 202311447394 A CN202311447394 A CN 202311447394A CN 117731236 A CN117731236 A CN 117731236A
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周秦波
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The invention discloses a method for monitoring erectile function, which comprises the following steps: collecting erection data of the penis of a user in a night sleep state in real time; acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server; analyzing the erectile function of the user according to the erectile data to obtain an erectile function analysis result of the user; and visually pushing the erection function analysis result. After the user data acquired after the night penis swelling test are collected, the data processing is carried out, and after interference factors are eliminated, a plurality of physiological indexes of the user are known. The night erection state of the user is analyzed in multiple aspects, such as erection times, time and the like, so as to confirm possible problems of erectile dysfunction of the user, thereby solving the problem that the user cannot perform directional treatment when performing treatment, and achieving effective implementation of treatment means.

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Erectile function monitoring method and system
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of medical equipment monitoring, in particular to a method and a system for monitoring erectile function.
Background
The causes of Erectile Dysfunction (ED) are two different, namely non-organic and organic, the former being the main "culprit" and the latter being the most diverse of diseases. It is critical to treat ED to clearly diagnose what causes are erectile dysfunction. The diagnosis ED preferably targets "night evidence". The phenomenon of penis erection caused by central nervous system conduction impulse is normal physiological phenomenon and is not influenced by psychological factors. So the medicine designed a nocturnal penile expansion (NPT) test.
The nocturnal penile erection is an erection occurring under deep sleep, and thus is not much related to consciousness in a state where a person is awake, and is a manifestation of subconscious penile activity. The erection of the penis is regulated by the brain center, and in the normal case, the brain has an inhibiting effect on the erection of the penis under the condition of consciousness in daytime, so that the erection is not endless and frequently erected in the daytime. Only under special environment and conditions, under a certain sexual stimulation, the penis can be erected when the erection of the brain on the penis is changed from the inhibition effect to the promotion effect.
At present, intervention treatment for male Erectile Dysfunction (ED) patients on the market is low in efficiency in aspects of follow-up tracking, patient management and the like, and the capability of information integration and data comprehensive application is lacking. The side effects of drug treatment on ED patients are significant and have little effect on some non-organically induced ED patients.
Therefore, how to know the sexual function condition of the patient more accurately, and how to know the ED risk of the user according to the current body index data of the user as early as possible so as to remind the user to perform effective treatment is a problem to be solved at present.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks, the present invention provides a method and a system for monitoring erectile function, which can monitor whether a user has an organic ED or a non-organic ED.
In order to solve the problems, the invention is realized according to the following technical scheme:
in a first aspect, the present invention provides a method for monitoring erectile function comprising the steps of:
collecting erection data of the penis of a user in a night sleep state in real time;
acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server;
analyzing the erectile function of the user according to the erectile data to obtain an erectile function analysis result of the user;
and visually pushing the erection function analysis result.
As an improvement of the above, the erection data includes a monitoring day, a monitoring total time period, a total number of erections in the monitoring time period, a total erections time period in the monitoring time period, and an average erections time period in the monitoring time period.
As an improvement of the above-mentioned aspect, the analyzing the erectile function of the user based on the erectile data to obtain the erectile function analysis result of the user includes:
when the effective monitoring days in 30 days of the user are not less than 7 days, if the total number of erections in 30 days of the user is not less than two and the total erections time is longer than 10 minutes, the analysis result is that the risk of the non-organic ED of the user is high;
when the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days are not less than 7 days, if the total number of erections in the user 30 days is less than two and the total erections duration is less than 10 minutes, the analysis result is that the organic ED risk of the user is high.
As an improvement of the above-mentioned scheme, the analyzing the erectile function of the user based on the erectile data to obtain the analysis result of the erectile function of the user further includes:
if the effective monitoring days in 30 days of the user are less than 7 days, prompting the user that the sample data volume is insufficient.
As an improvement of the above scheme, if the effective monitoring days in the 30 days of the user are less than 7 days, calculating the days of at least the user to perform the monitoring experiment according to the effective monitoring days in the 30 days of the user, and pushing the days of at least the user to perform the experiment to the user.
As an improvement to the above scheme, the total monitoring time of a single day is not more than six hours.
As a modification of the above-described scheme, the erectile function analysis results are visually pushed in a graph form.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides an erectile function monitoring system, applied to the method for monitoring erectile function according to the first aspect of the present invention, the system comprising smart underpants for collecting erection data of a penis of a user in real time in a sleeping state at night;
the mobile terminal is in communication connection with the intelligent underpants and is used for acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server;
the cloud server is in communication connection with the mobile terminal and is used for analyzing the erection function of the user according to the erection data to obtain an erection function analysis result of the user;
the mobile terminal is also used for receiving the erection function analysis result returned by the cloud server and visually pushing the erection function analysis result.
As an improvement of the scheme, the intelligent underpants are in wireless communication connection with the mobile terminal.
As an improvement of the above solution, the wireless communication connection includes a bluetooth communication connection and a WiFi communication connection.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
according to the method, after user data acquired after a night penis swelling (NPT) test are collected, data processing is performed, and after interference factors are eliminated, a plurality of physiological indexes of a user are known. The method and the device are used for analyzing multiple aspects of erection states of the user at night, analyzing multiple aspects of erection times, time and the like to confirm possible problems of Erectile Dysfunction (ED) of the user, so that the problem that the user cannot perform directional treatment when performing treatment is solved, and an effective treatment means is achieved. On the other hand, the effectiveness of the treatment means can be known through continuous monitoring and data feedback.
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The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the attached drawing figures, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for monitoring erectile function in an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a visual presentation of erection data in an embodiment of the application;
FIG. 3 is a table diagram of monitoring data on a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 4 is a block diagram showing the construction of an erectile function monitoring system in the embodiment of the present application.
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The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, it being understood that the preferred embodiments described herein are for illustration and explanation of the present invention only, and are not intended to limit the present invention.
It should be noted that, the numbers mentioned herein, such as S1 and S2 … …, are merely used as distinction between steps and do not represent that the steps must be strictly performed according to the order of the numbers.
An embodiment of the present application provides a method for monitoring erectile function, as shown in fig. 1, the method comprising the steps of:
s1: collecting erection data of the penis of a user in a night sleep state in real time;
specifically, erection data of the penis is measured and obtained by wearing measuring equipment such as a penis erection measuring instrument or intelligent underpants, in the embodiment of the application, taking the intelligent underpants as an example, main components of the intelligent underpants are a microchip and a flexible sensing material, after the user wears the intelligent underpants, different erection degrees of the penis lead to different degrees of deformation of the sensing material so as to display different waveforms, and then erection data of the penis can be obtained according to the acquired waveforms. In practical use, a user can wear the intelligent underpants before sleeping at night, and when the user sleeps, the sensor component in the intelligent underpants collects erection data of the penis of the user in real time during sleeping. The intelligent underpants are used for collecting erection data of the penis of the user in a sleeping state, so that physical data of the user do not need to be collected in a specific experimental environment, and the user can collect the physical data and monitor the physical data of the user only at home.
It should be noted that nocturnal penile erection data can help the physician determine if ED has an organic cause. Normally, an adult male experiences multiple penile erection cycles each night, which is called a nocturnal penile erection test (Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Test). By measuring the frequency, duration and stiffness of penile erection, it can be inferred whether the erectile mechanism is normal. If nocturnal penile erection data indicates normal erection patterns, ED is more likely to be non-organic, as a result of psychological factors. On the other hand, nocturnal penile erection data can also be used to exclude potential organic causes. If the penile erection data at night shows an abnormal or absent penile erection, this may suggest that there are potential organic problems such as arterial blood supply problems, neurological problems or physiological factors. This also helps to further evaluate the possible etiology and determine if additional checks and tests are needed.
S2: acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server;
specifically, the erection data collected by the wearable measurement device can be obtained through the mobile terminal, wherein the mobile terminal can establish communication connection with the wearable measurement device through Bluetooth or wifi, and then the wearable measurement device transmits the collected erection data to the mobile terminal. The erection data can be uploaded to the cloud server through a specific APP on the mobile terminal, and the cloud server stores the erection data uploaded by each user.
S3: analyzing the erectile function of the user according to the erectile data to obtain an erectile function analysis result of the user;
specifically, the cloud server may analyze the uploaded erection data. When the data is uploaded to the cloud server, the data can be stored, processed and analyzed, and then the cloud server can generate a personalized health report of the user according to the erection data.
It should be noted that, after the erection data is uploaded to the cloud server by the mobile terminal, the cloud server at least performs operations such as data receiving and storing, data preprocessing, data analysis, and the like on the erection data: the uploaded erection data is firstly received to a cloud server and stored in a cloud storage system, such as a cloud database or cloud storage service, so that the erection data of a user can be safely stored and can be accessed at any time when the user needs; data preprocessing is then typically required before further analysis can take place. This includes operations such as data cleansing, outlier removal, normalization, conversion, or resampling to ensure consistency and accuracy of the data; once the data has been pre-processed, analytical techniques, algorithms, and related techniques such as clinical medicine may be applied to analyze the erectile data.
In the embodiment of the present application, the step S3 further includes the following steps:
when the effective monitoring days in 30 days of the user are not less than 7 days, if the total number of erections in 30 days of the user is not less than two and the total erections time is longer than 10 minutes, the analysis result is that the risk of the non-organic ED of the user is high;
when the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days are not less than 7 days, if the total number of erections in the user 30 days is less than two and the total erections duration is less than 10 minutes, the analysis result is that the organic ED risk of the user is high.
Specifically, there is enough data sample needed to monitor and analyze the sexual function of the user according to the erection data of the penis, so the time for the user to perform data collection often needs a periodic process, in the embodiment of the present application, the analysis of the penile function of the user needs the user to upload valid data for at least 7 days, and the uploaded erection data should be valid erection data collected in about 30 days.
In the embodiment of the present application, the step S3 further includes the following steps:
if the effective monitoring days in 30 days of the user are less than 7 days, prompting the user that the sample data volume is insufficient.
Specifically, when the erection data uploaded to the cloud server by the user does not meet the preset requirement (the effective detection days in the last 30 days are less than 7 days), the cloud server or the mobile terminal prompts the user that the sample data volume required by the erection function analysis is insufficient.
Further, in the embodiment of the present application, the step S3 further includes the following steps:
if the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days are smaller than 7 days, calculating the days of at least the experiment to be performed by the user according to the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days, and pushing the days of at least the experiment to be performed to the user.
Specifically, when erection data uploaded to the cloud server by a user does not meet a preset requirement, the cloud server or the mobile terminal prompts the user to perform erection function analysis, and meanwhile, the cloud server calculates the number of days of a user still needing to perform a monitoring experiment according to data uploaded by the user, and notifies the number of days still needing to perform the experiment to the user through APP or short message pushing on the mobile terminal.
In the embodiment of the application, the total monitoring duration of a single day is not more than six hours.
Specifically, the total daily actual monitoring duration can be preset through the APP on the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal controls the intelligent underpants or other wearable monitoring devices to collect erection data of the user, wherein preferably, the measurement time of the preset daily is not more than 6 hours, namely, when the user wears the measurement for more than six hours, the measurement can be finished.
S4: and visually pushing the erection function analysis result.
In particular, the results of the erectile data analysis may be presented by way of data visualization, such as charts, graphs, or dashboards, which facilitate an intuitive understanding of the characteristics and trends of the data, as well as aiding in the decision making process and communication of the results.
In the embodiments of the present application, it is preferable that, as shown in fig. 2 to 3, a bar chart is used to show the user's erection data. The date for monitoring the erectile function data can be intuitively and clearly known through only displaying the date with the data on the APP of the mobile terminal;
it should be noted that, in the figure, the erection time and the number of erection times are 0, and are also regarded as data, because the erection time is 0, all of which only prompts are displayed: no effective erection;
the x-axis is the date, arranged according to the positive sequence of the date, the y-axis is the erection time length, and the unit is minutes;
the bar graph is formed by superposing monitoring data according to the time from the beginning to the end each time;
when the mouse moves to the column graph, the summarized data (monitoring date, monitoring total duration, erection times and average erection duration) of the day are displayed;
the top of the bar graph shows: times + total erection time;
further, the health level may be classified into sub-health, excellent, good, and outstanding levels according to the length of time of erection, and different health levels may be displayed by different colors.
In an embodiment of the present application, there is also provided an erectile function monitoring system, as shown in fig. 4, comprising:
the intelligent underpants are used for collecting erection data of the penis of a user in a night sleep state in real time;
specifically, in the embodiment of the application, the intelligent wearing device adopts the intelligent underpants to acquire erection data of the penis of the user in consideration of comfort required by the user in the experiment and the wearability of the device. Wherein, be provided with penis erection sensor, data record and storage module, communication module and power and battery management module on being used for gathering the intelligent pants of penis data, be used for real-time supervision and measure the erection state of penis through penis erection sensor. It should be noted that the sensor may employ different measurement techniques, such as a pressure sensor, an optical sensor, or a resistance sensor, according to the data to be collected, for detecting hardness and variation of penile erection; the penis erection data is collected and stored through a data recording and storing module, wherein the module can be an internal memory or an external storage medium, such as a built-in memory chip, an SD card or cloud storage; through the communication module, communication connection is established with the mobile terminal of the user, so that the user can conveniently acquire erection function data acquired by the sensor; and the power and battery management module is used to provide a stable power supply to ensure durable operation of the device during the experiment.
It should be noted that the above examples are only illustrative, and are not limited thereto.
The mobile terminal is in communication connection with the intelligent underpants and is used for acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server;
specifically, be equipped with corresponding practical APP on the mobile terminal, communication module in mobile terminal and the intelligent pants carries out communication connection to obtain the erection data that gathers, and upload the erection data to high in the clouds server and carry out data analysis, mobile terminal still is used for receiving the erection function analysis result that high in the clouds server returned, and to carry out visual propelling movement to the erection function analysis result.
In the embodiment of the application, the mobile terminal and the smart underpants transmit data in a wireless communication manner, and preferably, the wireless communication manner may be a bluetooth communication connection or a WiFi communication connection.
The cloud server is in communication connection with the mobile terminal and is used for analyzing the erection function of the user according to the erection data to obtain an erection function analysis result of the user;
specifically, the cloud server at least comprises a data receiving and storing module, a data preprocessing module and a data analysis module, wherein the data receiving and storing module is used for receiving the uploaded erection data and storing the erection data in the cloud storage system; the data preprocessing module is used for performing operations such as data cleaning, abnormal value removal, standardization, conversion or resampling on the uploaded erection so as to ensure the consistency and accuracy of the data; and the data analysis module is used for analyzing erection data by applying analysis technology, algorithm, clinical treatment and other related technologies.
It should be noted that any process or method descriptions in flow charts or otherwise described herein may be understood as representing modules, segments, or portions of code which include one or more executable instructions for implementing specific logical functions or steps of the process, and that scope of preferred embodiments of the present disclosure includes additional implementations in which functions may be executed out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially concurrently or in reverse order, depending on the functionality involved, as would be understood by those reasonably skilled in the art of the embodiments of the present disclosure.
Logic and/or steps represented in the flowcharts or otherwise described herein, e.g., a ordered listing of executable instructions for implementing logical functions, can be embodied in any computer-readable medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, such as a computer-based system, processor-containing system, or other system that can fetch the instructions from the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device and execute the instructions.
It should be understood that portions of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof. In the above-described embodiments, the various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in a memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. As with the other embodiments, if implemented in hardware, may be implemented using any one or combination of the following techniques, as is well known in the art: discrete logic circuits having logic gates for implementing logic functions on data signals, application specific integrated circuits having suitable combinational logic gates, programmable Gate Arrays (PGAs), field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and the like.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the steps carried out in the method of the above-described embodiments may be implemented by a program to instruct related hardware, where the program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and where the program, when executed, includes one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.
Furthermore, each functional unit in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be integrated in one processing module, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one module. The integrated modules may be implemented in hardware or in software functional modules. The integrated modules may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium if implemented in the form of software functional modules and sold or used as a stand-alone product.
The above-mentioned storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, or the like. Although embodiments of the present disclosure have been shown and described above, it will be understood that the above embodiments are illustrative and not to be construed as limiting the present disclosure, and that variations, modifications, alternatives, and variations may be made to the above embodiments by one of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present disclosure.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the present application is not intended to be limiting, but rather is intended to cover any and all modifications, equivalents, alternatives, and improvements within the spirit and principles of the present application.

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1. A method for monitoring erectile function comprising the steps of:
collecting erection data of the penis of a user in a night sleep state in real time;
acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server;
analyzing the erectile function of the user according to the erectile data to obtain an erectile function analysis result of the user;
and visually pushing the erection function analysis result.
2. The method of monitoring erectile function according to claim 1, wherein the erectile data comprises a monitored number of days, a monitored total length of time, a monitored total number of erections in time, a monitored total length of time, and a monitored average length of time.
3. The method of monitoring erectile function according to claim 2, wherein analyzing the erectile function of the user based on the erectile data to obtain an erectile function analysis result of the user comprises:
when the effective monitoring days in 30 days of the user are not less than 7 days, if the total number of erections in 30 days of the user is not less than two and the total erections time is longer than 10 minutes, the analysis result is that the risk of the non-organic ED of the user is high;
when the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days are not less than 7 days, if the total number of erections in the user 30 days is less than two and the total erections duration is less than 10 minutes, the analysis result is that the organic ED risk of the user is high.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein analyzing the erectile function of the user based on the erectile data to obtain the erectile function analysis result of the user further comprises:
if the effective monitoring days in 30 days of the user are less than 7 days, prompting the user that the sample data volume is insufficient.
5. The method of monitoring erectile function as set forth in claim 4, wherein the analyzing the erectile function of the user based on the erectile data to obtain an analysis result of the erectile function of the user further includes:
if the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days are smaller than 7 days, calculating the days of at least the experiment to be performed by the user according to the effective monitoring days in the user 30 days, and pushing the days of at least the experiment to be performed to the user.
6. The method for monitoring erectile function according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the total monitoring period of a single day is not more than six hours.
7. The method for monitoring erectile function according to claim 1, wherein the analysis result of erectile function is visually pushed in a graph form.
8. An erectile function monitoring system applied to the method for monitoring erectile function as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 7, comprising:
the intelligent underpants are used for collecting erection data of the penis of a user in a night sleep state in real time;
the mobile terminal is in communication connection with the intelligent underpants and is used for acquiring the erection data and uploading the erection data to a cloud server;
the cloud server is in communication connection with the mobile terminal and is used for analyzing the erection function of the user according to the erection data to obtain an erection function analysis result of the user;
the mobile terminal is also used for receiving the erection function analysis result returned by the cloud server and visually pushing the erection function analysis result.
9. The erectile function monitoring system of claim 8, wherein the smart underpants are in wireless communication connection with the mobile terminal.
10. The erectile function monitoring system of claim 8, wherein the wireless communication connection comprises a bluetooth communication connection and a WiFi communication connection.
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