APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USER EVALUATION

1 . An apparatus for analyzing changes in symptoms of a patient, comprising:

a display for displaying a stimulus to a patient;

an audio/video capture device for capturing audio, video, or both audio and video of a patient performing an action in response to a stimulus presented to the patient;

a computer vision processing system for determining, in accordance with the captured audio/video, one or more reactions of the patient to the presented stimulus, and wherein the computer vision processing system causes the display to display additional information to the patient in response to the determined one or more reactions, causes the audio/video capture device to capture audio, video, or both audio and video of a patient performing an action in response to the displayed additional stimulus presented to the patient in accordance with the captured audio/video, and causes the computer vision processing system to determine one or more reactions of the patient to the presented additional stimulus;

a storage device for storing and indexing the determined reactions of the patient with one or more demographic categories to which the patient is classified;

a second processor configured to identify a correlation between one or more of the determined stored reactions and one or more of the demographic items; and

a data output device for presenting the determined correlation.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the storage device further stores one or more medication administration statistics of the patient.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the processing system is configured to determines a correlation between one or more of the determined stored reactions and one or more of the medication administration statistics.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein determined correlation between the one or more of the determined stored reactions and one or more of the medication administration statistics is used to determine efficacy of the medication.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the efficacy of the medication is further correlated with the one or more demographic items.

6 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the efficacy of the medication is further correlated with all of the one or more demographic items to determine a query response matrix.

7 . The system of claim 6 , further comprising a user interaction module for receiving input of a demographic profile of a potential patient comprising one or more demographic items, and for providing a correlation between the input demographic profile and expected medication efficacy.

8 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises one or more microexpressions.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the microexpressions comprise one or more facial reactions within 250 milliseconds after presentation of the stimulus to the patient.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the one or more facial reactions are determined in accordance with the movement of one or more action units associated with the face of the patient.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises a change in one or more symptoms associated with a disease.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein a change in one or more of the one or more symptoms is indicative in a change in the overall progression of the disease.

13 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the stimulus presented to the patient comprises a sequence of images, and the response comprises one or more microexpressions recognized within 250 milliseconds after presentation of each image of the sequence of images.

14 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the stimulus presented to the patient comprises one or more instructions provided to the patient in accordance with monitoring of medication administration of the patient, and wherein the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises the action of the patient performing a requested step indicative of proper medication administration.

15 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further correlates the determined one or more reactions of the patient to similar one or more reactions of a plurality of patients similarly situated to the patient along at least one dimension of disease to determine an individual baseline for the patient.

16 . A system for analyzing changes in symptoms of a patient, comprising:

a display for displaying information to a patient;

an audio/video capture device for capturing audio/video of a patient performing an action in response to a stimulus presented to the patient, the stimulus presented to the patient comprising one or more instructions provided to the patient in accordance with monitoring of medication administration of the patient, and wherein the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises the action of the patient performing a requested step indicative of proper medication administration, the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises a change in one or more symptoms associated with a disease, the change in one or more of the one or more symptoms being indicative of a change in the overall progression of the disease;

a processor for determining, in accordance with the captured audio/video, one or more reactions of the patient to the presented stimulus, a correlation between one or more of the determined stored reactions and one or more of the medication administration instructions, the correlation being used to determine efficacy of the medication, and where the efficacy of the medication is further correlated with one or more of the one or more demographic items to determine a query response matrix;

a storage device for storing the query response matrix;

a user interaction module for receiving input of a demographic profile of a potential patient comprising one or more demographic items, and for determining a correlation between the input demographic profile and expected medication efficacy, and

a data output device for presenting the determined correlation.

17 . The system of claim 16 , wherein the processor further correlates the determined one or more reactions of the patient to similar one or more reactions of a plurality of patients similarly situated to the patient along at least one dimension of disease to determine an individual baseline for the patient, and wherein subsequent determined one or more reactions for the patient are compared relative to the individual baseline for the patient.

18 . A method for analyzing changes in symptoms of a patient, comprising:

displaying information to a patient on a display;

capturing audio/video of a patient performing an action in response to a stimulus presented to the patient, the stimulus presented to the patient comprising one or more instructions provided to the patient in accordance with monitoring of medication administration of the patient, and wherein the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises the action of the patient performing a requested step indicative of proper medication administration, the action performed in response to the stimulus presented to the patient comprises a change in one or more symptoms associated with a disease, the change in one or more of the one or more symptoms being indicative of a change in the overall progression of the disease;

determining, in accordance with the captured audio/video, one or more reactions of the patient to the presented stimulus, a correlation between one or more of the determined stored reactions and one or more of the medication administration instructions, the correlation being used to determine efficacy of the medication, and where the efficacy of the medication is further correlated with one or more of the one or more demographic items to determine the query response matrix;

storing the query response matrix;

receiving input of a demographic profile of a potential patient comprising one or more demographic items, and for determining a correlation between the input demographic profile and expected medication efficacy, and

presenting the determined correlation.

19 . The method of claim 18 , comprising further correlating the determined one or more reactions of the patient to similar one or more reactions of a plurality of patients similarly situated to the patient along at least one dimension of disease to determine an individual baseline for the patient, and wherein subsequent determined one or more reactions for the patient are compared relative to the individual baseline for the patient.

20 . The method of claim 19 , wherein the one or more reactions of the patient to the presented stimulus comprises one or more facial reactions determined in accordance with the movement of one or more action units associated with the face of the patient.