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20100189333 | METHOD AND BRANCHING DETERMINATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A BRANCHING POINT WITHIN A HOLLOW ORGAN - A method is disclosed for determining a branching point within a hollow organ in image data representing the spatial structure thereof. In at least one embodiment, the method includes setting a start point within the hollow organ; determining at least one local threshold which corresponds to the presence of a wall of the hollow organ; carrying out a region growing method using the threshold; analyzing the connectivity of a number of outer growth layers; and localizing a branching on the basis of the connectivity analysis. Moreover, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a correspondingly designed branching determination unit. | 07-29-2010 |
20110103667 | METHOD FOR HIGHLIGHTING LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS IN ANATOMICAL VOLUME RENDERINGS OF VESSEL STRUCTURES AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THIS METHOD - A method is disclosed for highlighting local characteristics in anatomical volume renderings of vessel structures and a computer system is disclosed for carrying out this method. In at least one embodiment of the method, the method includes determining or receiving a volume of interest; generating or receiving at least one first tomographic volume data record in the volume of interest, having a rendered display of a vessel structure; generating or receiving at least one second volume data record, which is used as a mask for the first volume data record and has at least one characteristic vector with a minimum data width of 2 bit for each voxel; accepting at least one characteristic definition for at least one predefined position or predefined region of the mask or the first volume data record, which is at the same position, and encoding the at least one characteristic definition in at least one characteristic vector of the mask; and combined rendering of the first volume data record and the mask, wherein the mask translucently marks a defined surrounding area of the predefined position as a function of the characteristic vectors present there. | 05-05-2011 |
20110158495 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF THE CENTRAL LINE OF AT LEAST ONE PORTION OF A TUBULAR TISSUE STRUCTURE - A method and a device are disclosed for automated detection of at least one part of the central line of at least one portion of a tubular tissue structure. In at least one embodiment of the method, characteristic landmarks of the tubular tissue structure are detected in a 3D data record of the tubular tissue structure; the detected characteristic landmarks of the tubular tissue structure and landmarks of a model of landmarks, which model belongs to the tubular tissue structure and takes into account the position of the landmarks relative to one another, are related to one another such that at least one portion of the tubular tissue structure is identified in the 3D data record of the tubular tissue structure. The central line of the identified portion of the tubular tissue structure is determined at least in part on the basis of at least one detected characteristic landmark and/or at least one landmark of the model of landmarks. | 06-30-2011 |
20110262020 | Method And Computer System For Automatic Vectorization Of A Vessel Tree - A method and a computer system are disclosed for automatic vectorization of the profile of a vessel tree and at least one of its properties on the basis of tomographic images of an examined patient. In at least one embodiment, using previously established location probabilities of landmarks in the vessel tree, there is an automatic determination of a plurality of distinctive landmarks in the current tomographic image data record of the patient, a registration of the current tomographic image data record to the statistical vessel model, an automatic determination of previously unidentified landmarks in the registered tomographic image data record using characteristic identification features of the previously unidentified landmarks from the statistical vessel model and the statistical location probability thereof, and a determination of at least one current vessel model using the identified landmarks and at least one vessel property at and/or between the identified landmarks. | 10-27-2011 |
20110263964 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AT LEAST ONE CHANGE IN A TUBULAR TISSUE STRUCTURE IN A LIVING BEING, CALCULATION UNIT AND DATA STORAGE MEDIUM - A method is disclosed for establishing at least one change in a tubular tissue structure in a living being from a first time to a second time, which differs from the first, wherein the midline of the tubular tissue structure is respectively determined in a provided first volume data record, generated at the first time, of the tubular tissue structure in the living being, and in a provided second volume data record, generated at the second time, which differs from the first, of the tubular tissue structure. In at least one embodiment, at least one change in the minimum and/or the maximum diameter of the inner wall of the tubular tissue structure and/or at least one change in the minimum and/or the maximum diameter of the outer wall of the tubular tissue structure is established in order to establish the at least one change in the tubular tissue structure along the tubular tissue structure at mutually corresponding positions of the midlines of the tubular tissue structure in the first volume data record and the tubular tissue structure in the second volume data record. At least one embodiment of the invention also relates to a calculation unit for carrying out the method and to a data storage medium, which has a calculation program implementing the method. | 10-27-2011 |
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20120165063 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A NODE OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for controlling a node of a wireless communication system has a traffic load determiner, a cooperation capacity determiner and a power control unit. The traffic load determiner determines a traffic load in the wireless communication system and the cooperation capacity determiner determines an available cooperation capacity of the node with another node of the wireless communication system. Further, the power control unit activates or deactivates an antenna of a node based on the determined traffic load and the determined available capacity. | 06-28-2012 |
20120177373 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTLY TRANSMITTING SIGNALS BETWEEN NODES OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system has a plurality of nodes adapted to provide for a communication with one or more devices, a central node, a passive optical network having a multiplexer/demultiplexer device adapted to demultiplex a first optical signal from the central node to the plurality of nodes, and to multiplex second optical signals from one or more of the nodes, each node having allocated a wavelength for generating its optical signal, wherein for directly transmitting signals from one node to at least one of the other nodes, the one node is adapted to generate an optical signal at the wavelength allocated to the at least one of the other nodes, the optical signal including the signal to be transmitted, and wherein the multiplexer/demultiplexer device of the passive optical network is adapted to combine the optical signal from the one node with the first optical signal. | 07-12-2012 |
20130244670 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CORE NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus for determining a core network configuration of a wireless communication system comprises cluster determiner. A core network of a wireless communication system has a plurality of base stations, a plurality of wireline links between the base stations and at least one control unit for controlling a cluster of base stations of the plurality of base stations. The cluster determiner determines as the core network configuration at least one cluster of base stations linked by wireline links and controlled by a same control unit based on a predefined basic network configuration, so that latencies between each base station of the cluster and the control unit of the cluster are below a maximal allowable latency. The predefined basic network configuration represents information about all base stations of a core network to be configured and about possible wireline links between the base stations. | 09-19-2013 |
20130294288 | METHOD FOR COORDINATED MULTIPOINT (COMP) TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS WITH RECONFIGURATION CAPABILITY - A method for coordinated multipoint communication in a wireless communication network, which has a plurality of base stations and a backhaul network connecting the plurality of base stations, includes selecting one or more cooperating base stations for a coordinated multipoint communication for a mobile unit serviced by a serving base station, determining whether the backhaul network supports a coordinated multipoint technique selected for a cooperating base station, and in case the backhaul network is not sufficient to support a coordinated multipoint technique for one or more of the cooperating base stations, reconfiguring the backhaul network to meet the requirements of the coordinated multipoint technique. | 11-07-2013 |
20130337818 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CONTROL UNIT USING FEASIBILITY REQUESTS AND FEASIBILITY RESPONSES - An apparatus for determining a control unit of a plurality of control units in a wireless communication system for controlling cooperative transmission or reception between base stations and a wireless device includes a cluster feasibility processor configured to receive a cluster feasibility response from at least one other control unit than a control unit controlling a base station serving a wireless device containing information of a feasible wireline cluster of base stations controllable by the at least one other control unit; and a control unit selector configured to select the at least one control unit for controlling a cooperative transmission or a cooperative reception between at least two base stations and the wireless device based on the at least one received information of the feasible wireline cluster of base stations controllable by the at least one other control unit. | 12-19-2013 |
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20140309076 | DIFFERENTIAL GEAR - A differential gear having a gear housing, an epicyclic gear housing which is arranged in the gear housing in a manner allowing rotation about a gear axis, and a planetary carrier which sits in the epicyclic gear housing, wherein the drive power applied to the epicyclic gear housing is divided by means of this differential gear, and the planetary carrier and the epicyclic gear housing can be coupled selectively by force fit via a coupling device. The differential gear has a brake device with a brake disk pack for the purpose of generating a coupling torque which couples the planetary carrier to the epicyclic gear housing, and an actuating mechanism for the purpose of generating an axial force which engages the brake device, wherein the bearing device has a first roller bearing with an outer bearing ring fixed to the gear housing. | 10-16-2014 |
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