| Siemens Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20160020609 | DEMAND SHAPING IN AN ELECTRICAL POWER GRID | 01-21-2016 |
| 20150305706 | ESTIMATION OF A MECHANICAL PROPERTY OF ANATOMY FROM MEDICAL SCAN DATA - A mechanical property of anatomy is estimated from a patient in vivo, such as estimating a patient-specific material property of a valve. A morphological model is used to determine anatomy dynamics. A biomechanical model, using the anatomy dynamics, predicts the dynamics, based, at least in part, on one or more material properties. Using an inverse solution based on comparison of dynamics predicted by the biomechanical model and the dynamics determined from the morphological model, values for the material properties are determined. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150253027 | ON-LINE OPTIMIZATION SCHEME FOR HVAC DEMAND RESPONSE - A computer-implemented method of optimizing demand-response (DR) of a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system of a building, includes determining ( | 09-10-2015 |
| 20150227838 | LOG-BASED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE - A method of building a model for predicting failure of a machine, including parsing ( | 08-13-2015 |
| 20150160321 | Method and System for B0 Drift and Respiratory Motion Compensation in Echo-Planar Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A method and apparatus for B | 06-11-2015 |
| 20150085998 | BIDIRECTIONAL REMOTE USER INTERFACE FOR HMI/SCADA USING INTERACTIVE VOICE PHONE CALLS - A two-way voice interface allows communication by telephone between a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and a human operator. A phone-HMI gateway communicates with the SCADA system through an application programming interface (API), composes messages to the operator in text format and interprets text derived from voice commands from the operator. A cloud telephone service is used to convert from voice to text and from text to voice, and to set up the telephone connection with the human operator. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150026208 | DYNAMIC AUTHORIZATION TO FEATURES AND DATA IN JAVA-BASED ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods are presented for dynamically controlling role-based access to enterprise applications. The access includes both a user's ability to access a requested functionality (hereinafter referred to as “features”) in an enterprise applications, as well as the user's ability to access the specific data (and request filtering of the data) within the enterprise applications. The systems and methods provide dynamic control by utilizing a number of separate tables for identifying each element (user, role and feature), with join-tables used to define, on an active/customized basis, the association of each user with respect to a particular role (user_role join-table) and association of each feature with the listing of roles (feature_role join-table). The join-tables and specific element tables may be modified during runtime to modify any of the associations or listings. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20140369576 | AUTOMATIC INTERATRIAL SEPTUM DETECTION FROM PRE-OPERATIVE AND INTRA-OPERATIVE 3D MEDICAL IMAGES FOR ACCURATE TRANSSEPTAL PUNCTURE - A computer-implemented method of determining an interatrial septum ring in a cardiac image includes determining a left atrium mean shape based on a plurality of training images and determining an interatrial septum ring mean shape based on the left atrium mean shape. A left atrium mesh is identified in a new image. Then, a deformation field from the left atrium mean shape to the left atrium mesh is calculated and applied to the interatrial septum ring mean shape to determine the interatrial septum ring in the new image. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140348408 | FLOW DIVERTER DETECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGING - A flow diverter is automatically detected from medical imaging data. The appearance of the flow diverter as represented in the data as well as the geometry or shape of the flow diverter is used in the detection. Using scoring for appearance relative to the centerline and cross-section of the centerline, the flow diverter is detected for increasing visualization. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140321240 | ELASTOGRAPHY FOR CEMENT INTEGRITY INSPECTION - A method for examining integrity of cement in a wellbore includes deploying an ultrasound transducer within a wellbore. One or more reference ultrasound images of the cement within the wellbore are acquired. A pushing pulse is emitted from the ultrasound transducer to elicit a displacement of the cement within the wellbore. A sequence of ultrasound images is acquired, over time, depicting the displacement of the cement within the wellbore elicited by the pushing pulse. A strain tensor map is generated from a difference between the one or more reference ultrasound images and the acquired sequence of ultrasound images. A degree of integrity of the cement within the wellbore is determined based on the generated strain tensor map. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140303943 | Rigid Body Proxy for Modeling in Three-Dimensional Simulation - Modeling is provided in three-dimensional simulation. Proxies are used as virtual rigid bodies to create ( | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140297002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL IN PLC - A Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework is implemented as part of the run-time system function features of a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system. Optimal control calculations are performed in the run-time MPC function block of the PLC. The optimal control function is determined by an MPC block in an engineering tool of the PLC, using a system dynamic matrix containing measurements from a unit step response test performed by the PLC. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140296842 | Patient Specific Planning and Simulation of Ablative Procedures - Patient specific temperature distribution in organs, due to an ablative device, is simulated. The effects of ablation are modeled. The modeling is patient specific. The vessel structure for a given patient, segmented from medical images, is accounted for as a heat sink in the model of biological heat transfer. A temperature map is generated to show the effects of ablation in a pre-operative analysis. Temperature maps resulting from different ablation currents and ablation device positions may be used to determine a more optimal location of the ablative device for a given patient. Other models may be included, such as accounting for the tissue damage during the ablation. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140241599 | PROVIDING REAL-TIME MARKER DETECTION FOR A STENT IN MEDICAL IMAGING - Real-time marker detection in medical imaging of a stent may be provided. A plurality of frames of image data may be obtained. A plurality of candidate markers for the stent may be determined in the plurality of frames of image data. One or more markers from the plurality of candidate markers may be detected. The detecting may be based on automatic initialization using a subset of frames of image data from the plurality of frames of image data. The detecting may be performed in real-time with the obtaining. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140221832 | TUNING ULTRASOUND ACQUISITION PARAMETERS - Values for ultrasound acquisition parameters are altered in a manifold space. The number of parameters to be set is reduced using a manifold. Virtual parameters different than the acquisition parameters are used to alter the greater number of acquisition parameters. In a further use, optimum image settings may be obtained in an automated system by measuring image quality for feeding back to virtual parameter adjustment. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140219548 | Method and System for On-Site Learning of Landmark Detection Models for End User-Specific Diagnostic Medical Image Reading - A method and system for on-line learning of landmark detection models for end-user specific diagnostic image reading is disclosed. A selection of a landmark to be detected in a 3D medical image is received. A current landmark detection result for the selected landmark in the 3D medical image is determined by automatically detecting the selected landmark in the 3D medical image using a stored landmark detection model corresponding to the selected landmark or by receiving a manual annotation of the selected landmark in the 3D medical image. The stored landmark detection model corresponding to the selected landmark is then updated based on the current landmark detection result for the selected landmark in the 3D medical image. The landmark selected in the 3D medical image can be a set of landmarks defining a custom view of the 3D medical image. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140200868 | SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING RELAXATION OF A CLASS OF ENERGY MANAGEMENT MODELS - According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for optimizing a cost of electric power generation in a smart site energy management model, including determining a matrix X that minimizes a semidefinite program C·X−μ ln(det(X)) subject to constraints A | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140200853 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION, GROUPING AND SIZING OF EMBEDDED FLAWS IN ROTOR COMPONENTS USING ULTRASONIC INSPECTION - A method and software system for flaw identification, grouping and sizing for fatigue life assessment for rotors used in turbines and generators. The method includes providing ultrasonic data of a plurality of rotor slices and providing volume reconstruction of the ultrasonic data. The method also includes providing in-slice identification, grouping and sizing of flaw indications in the rotor based on the volume reconstruction. Further, the method includes providing inter-slice identification, grouping and sizing of the flaw indications based on the in-slice flaw indications and providing flaw location and size information. The method can be used in both phased-array and A-scan inspections. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140187942 | Needle Enhancement in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging - A needle is enhanced in a medical diagnostic ultrasound image. The image intensities associated with a needle in an image are adaptively increased and/or enhanced by compounding from a plurality of ultrasound images. Filtering methods and probabilistic methods are used to locate possible needle locations. In one approach, possible needles are found in component frames that are acquired at the same time but at different beam orientations. The possible needles are associated with each other across the component frames and false detections are removed based on the associations. In one embodiment of needle detection in an ultrasound component frame, lines are found first. The lines are then searched to find possible needle segments. In another embodiment, data from different times may be used to find needle motion and differences from a reference, providing the features in additional to features from a single component frame for needle detection. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140165077 | Reducing The Scan Cycle Time Of Control Applications Through Multi-Core Execution Of User Programs - A method for pipeline parallelizing a control program for multi-core execution includes using ( | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140153802 | DEFORMABLE TREE MATCHING WITH TANGENT-ENHANCED COHERENT POINT DRIFT - Deformable, anatomical trees represented by scan data from different times are matched. Coherent point drift (CPD) solved using expectation maximization is enhanced with tangent or other curve information. By including point-curve information, another characteristic than GMM-based probabilities are included in the cost function for matching. The angle information provided by the tangent, normal, or other point-curve measure may more likely match points in one set representing a tree to points in another set representing the tree. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140151292 | STACKABLE ACOUSTIC TREATMENT MODULE - An acoustic treatment module stack includes a plurality of stacked pipe segments. Each pipe segment includes n ultrasound amplifier-transducers with an angular separation of (360/n)° on an outer circumference of the pipe segment, in which n is a positive integer, and a reflector unit disposed in a center of the pipe segment that includes n reflectors in which each ultrasound amplifier-transducer has a corresponding reflector positioned opposite of the ultrasound amplifier-transducer. Each acoustic treatment module is rotated (360/(n×m))° with respect to a preceding acoustic treatment module, in which m is a positive integer, and the plurality of acoustic treatment modules includes at least m pipe segments. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140136174 | System and Method for Patient Specific Modeling of Liver Tumor Ablation - A method and system for tumor ablation planning and guidance based on a patient-specific model of liver tumor ablation is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the liver and circulatory system of the liver is estimated from 3D medical image data of a patient. Blood flow in the liver and the circulatory system of the liver is simulated based on the patient-specific anatomical model. Heat diffusion due to ablation is simulated based on a virtual ablation probe position and the simulated blood flow in the liver and the venous system of the liver. Cellular necrosis in the liver is simulated based on the simulated heat diffusion. A visualization of a simulated necrosis region is generated and displayed to the user for decision making and optimal therapy planning and guidance. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133733 | Cell Feature-Based Automatic Circulating Tumor Cell Detection - An automated method for detecting circulating tumor cells in a microscopic image of a blood sample includes receiving, by a computer, a plurality of low-resolution images, each low resolution image providing a representation of the blood sample with one of a plurality of stains applied. The computer determines a threshold value for each of the plurality of stains based on the low resolution images and identifies a list of potential cells based on the threshold values. A gating process is performed on the list of potential circulating tumor cells to identify one or more likely or highly likely circulating tumor cells. The computer presents the subset of the low-resolution images in a verification interface comprising one or more components allowing a user to confirm that a respective low-resolution image included in the subset of the low-resolution images includes one or more circulating tumor cells. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133724 | MULTI-STAGE MAGNETIC RESONANCE RECONSTRUCTION FOR PARALLEL IMAGING APPLICATIONS - A computer-implemented method for reconstruction of a magnetic resonance image includes acquiring a first incomplete k-space data set comprising a plurality of first k-space lines spaced according to an acceleration factor and one or more calibration lines. A parallel imaging reconstruction technique is applied to the first incomplete k-space data to determine a plurality of second k-space lines not included in the first incomplete k-space data set, thereby yielding a second incomplete k-space data set. Then, the parallel imaging reconstruction technique is applied to the second incomplete k-space data to determine a plurality of third k-space lines not included in the second incomplete k-space data, thereby yielding a complete k-space data set. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140126796 | MRI RECONSTRUCTION WITH MOTION-DEPENDENT REGULARIZATION - A method of image reconstruction for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes obtaining k-space scan data captured by the MRI system, the k-space scan data being representative of an undersampled region over time, iteratively reconstructing preliminary dynamic images for the undersampled region from the k-space scan data via optimization of a first instance of a minimization problem, the minimization problem including a regularization term weighted by a weighting parameter array, generating a motion determination indicative of an extent to which each location of the undersampled region exhibits motion over time based on the preliminary dynamic images, and iteratively reconstructing motion-compensated dynamic images for the region from the k-space scan data via optimization of a second instance of the minimization problem, the second instance having the weighting parameter array altered as a function of the motion determination. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140107852 | USE OF A DEMAND RESPONSE TO ENABLE IMPROVED POWER SUPPLY RESTORATION PLANNING - A utility network powered by a power source has a plurality of substations enabled to power electrical equipment in a participant site. At least one substation is disconnected from the utility network and is to be reconnected via a substation with a power constraint. A processor determines how much power should be shed in a participant site of the substation with the power constraint to allow reconnection of the substation that is disconnected. The processor initiates a Demand Response signal to power consuming equipment in the participant site of the substation with the power constraint to shed power. After shedding power based on the Demand Response signal, the substation that was disconnected is connected to the utility network by closing a switch. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140100827 | CONSTRUCTION OF ENTROPY-BASED PRIOR AND POSTERIOR PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS WITH PARTIAL INFORMATION FOR FATIGUE DAMAGE PROGNOSTICS - A method for predicting fatigue crack growth in materials includes providing a prior distribution obtained using response measures from one or more target components using a fatigue crack growth model as a constraint function, receiving new crack length measurements, providing a posterior distribution obtained using the new crack length measurements, and sampling the posterior distribution to obtain crack length measurement predictions. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140100798 | TURBINE BLADE FATIGUE LIFE ANALYSIS USING NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT AND DYNAMICAL RESPONSE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES - A method dynamically reconstructing a stress and strain field of a turbine blade includes providing a set of response measurements from at least one location on a turbine blade, band-pass filtering the set of response measurements based on an upper frequency limit and a lower frequency limit, determining an upper envelope and a lower envelope of the set of response measurements from local minima and local maxima of the set of response measurements, calculating a candidate intrinsic mode function (IMF) from the upper envelope and the lower envelope of the set of response measurements, providing an N×N mode shape matrix for the turbine blade, where N is the number of degrees of freedom of the turbine blade, when the candidate IMF is an actual IMF, and calculating a response for another location on the turbine blade from the actual IMF and mode shapes in the mode shape matrix. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140098964 | Method and Apparatus for Acoustic Area Monitoring by Exploiting Ultra Large Scale Arrays of Microphones - Systems and methods are provided to create an acoustic map of a space containing multiple acoustic sources. Source localization and separation takes place by sampling an ultra large microphone array containing over 1020 microphones. The space is divided into a plurality of masks, wherein each masks represents a pass region and a complementary rejection region. Each mask is associated with a subset of microphones and beamforming filters that maximize a gain for signals coming from the pass region of the mask and minimizes the gain for signals from the complementary region according to an optimization criterion. The optimization criterion may be a minimization of a performance function for the beamforming filters. The performance function is preferably a convex function. A processor provides a scan applying the plurality of masks to locate a target source. Processor based systems to perform the optimization are also provided. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140097845 | Dynamic Image Reconstruction with Tight Frame Learning - A computer-implemented method for learning a tight frame includes acquiring undersampled k-space data over a time period using an interleaved process. An average of the undersampled k-space data is determined and a reference image is generated based on the average of the undersampled k-space data. Next, a tight frame operator is determined based on the reference image. Then, a reconstructed image data is generated from the undersampled k-space data via a sparse reconstruction which utilizes the tight frame operator. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140093153 | Method and System for Bone Segmentation and Landmark Detection for Joint Replacement Surgery - A method and system for automatic bone segmentation and landmark detection for joint replacement surgery is disclosed. A 3D medical image of at least a target joint region of a patient is received. A plurality bone structures are automatically segmented in the target joint region of the 3D medical image and a plurality of landmarks associated with a joint replacement surgery are automatically detected in the target joint region of the 3D medical image. The boundaries of segmented bone structures can then be interactively refined based on user inputs. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140088935 | VISCOELASTIC MODELING OF BLOOD VESSELS - A method for modeling a blood vessel includes: (a) modeling a first segment of the blood vessel based on medical imaging data acquired from a subject; (b) computing a first modeling parameter at an interior point of the first segment; and (c) computing a second modeling parameter at a boundary point of the first segment using a viscoelastic wall model. Systems for modeling a blood vessel are described | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140088899 | EIGEN-VECTOR APPROACH FOR COIL SENSITIVITY MAPS ESTIMATION - A method for estimating a coil sensitivity map for a magnetic resonance (MR) image includes providing a matrix A of sliding blocks of a 3D image of coil calibration data, calculating a left singular matrix V | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140086469 | MRI RECONSTRUCTION WITH INCOHERENT SAMPLING AND REDUNDANT HAAR WAVELETS - A method of image reconstruction for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a plurality of coils includes obtaining k-space scan data captured by the MRI system, the k-space scan data being representative of an undersampled region over time, determining a respective coil sensitivity profile for the region for each coil of the plurality of coils, and iteratively reconstructing dynamic images for the region from the k-space scan data via an optimization of a minimization problem. The minimization problem is based on the determined coil sensitivity profiles and redundant Haar wavelet transforms of the dynamic images. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140085318 | Multi-GPU FISTA Implementation for MR Reconstruction with Non-Uniform K-Space Sampling - A system for performing image reconstruction in a multi-threaded computing environment includes one or more central processing units executing a plurality of k-space components and a plurality of graphic processing units executing a reconstruction component. The k-space components executing on the central processing units include a k-space sample data component operating in a first thread and configured to receive k-space sample data from a first file interface; a k-space sample coordinate data component operating in a second thread and configured to receive k-space sample coordinate data from a second file interface; and a k-space sample weight data component operating in a third thread and configured to retrieve k-space sample weight data from a third file interface. The reconstruction component is configured to receive one or more k-space input data buffers comprising the k-space sample data, the k-space sample coordinate data, and the k-space sample weight data from the one or more central processing units, and reconstruct an image based on the input data buffers using an iterative reconstruction algorithm. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140081400 | Semi-Automatic Customization Of Plates For Internal Fracture Fixation - A method on a processor customizes a fixation plate for repairing a bone fracture. A digital CAD model of an implant contains smooth analytic geometry representations including NURBS. The CAD geometry is directly manipulated to generate a customized implant CAD model that conforms to the desired region of the bone surface of a patient. Direct manipulation of NURBS geometry is computationally fast and suitable for interactive planning. The patient specific customized implant is produced directly from the generated customized CAD model with a standard CNC machine before surgery. The patient customized implant is implanted in the patient. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140079308 | Method and System for Real Time Stent Enhancement on Live 2D Fluoroscopic Scene - A method and system for real time stent enhancement on a live 2D fluoroscopic scene is disclosed. A motion compensated stent enhancement image is generated from a first set of frames in a fluoroscopic image sequence. A weighting field is generated based on the motion compensated stent enhancement image. For each new frame in the fluoroscopic image sequence that is received, the stent is enhanced in the new frame by compounding the new frame with the motion compensated stent enhancement image using the weighting field. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140078797 | CONTROL FOR FAULT-BYPASS OF CASCADED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER - A cascaded multi-level inverter is controlled in fault bypass operation. Rather than relying on approximations or feedback forms, the reference voltages are generated as an analytic solution. The analytic solution and its implementation are not affected by the output frequency of the inverter and it is able to provide maximum possible balanced line-line voltage to a three-phase motor. In addition, the analytic solution provides exact limits for the allowable operation region of the motor power factor in order to prevent overvoltage conditions of the cell inverter. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140074306 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY CONTROL MANAGEMENT - In order to reduce computation time and cost involved with determining one or more optimal parameters for a pre-cooling strategy, for a modeled system, a two-step genetic algorithms is used to optimize energy consumption of the modeled system with respect to cost of the energy consumption. A first step of the two-step genetic algorithms determines a population of potential solutions that are used to initialize a second step of the two-step genetic algorithm. The second step of the two-step genetic algorithm determines the one or more optimal parameters for the pre-cooling strategy from the population output by the first genetic algorithm. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140064326 | NOISE ROBUST TIME OF FLIGHT ESTIMATION FOR ACOUSTIC PYROMETRY - An acoustic signal traversing a hot gas is sampled at a source and a receiver and is represented in overlapping windows that maximize useable signal content. Samples in each window are processed to represented in different sparsified bins in the frequency domain. Determining a signal delay between the source and the receiver from a summation of maximum smoothed coherence transform cross-correlation values of different data windows wherein a sparseness of a mean smoothed coherence transform cross-correlation of windows is maximized. Determining a set of delay times wherein outliers are deleted to estimate a time of flight from which a temperature of the hot gas is calculated. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140062195 | BIDIRECTIONAL DEMAND RESPONSE CONTROL - A method for managing allocation of electrical power includes selecting one or more power consuming entities for receiving a request to reduce electrical power usage (S | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140060580 | HIGH INTENSITY ULTRASOUND FOR PIPELINE OBSTRUCTION REMEDIATION - High intensity ultrasound is used for pipeline obstruction remediation. Ultrasound transducers are positioned around an outside of the pipeline. The transducers transmit acoustic energy into the obstruction. The acoustic energy heats the obstruction at a location spaced away from the walls of the pipeline. As the obstruction heats, an opening may be formed in the obstruction, relieving pressure build-up without releasing the plug. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140058715 | Method and System for Non-Invasive Functional Assessment of Coronary Artery Stenosis - A method and system for non-invasive assessment of coronary artery stenosis is disclosed. Patient-specific anatomical measurements of the coronary arteries are extracted from medical image data of a patient acquired during rest state. Patient-specific rest state boundary conditions of a model of coronary circulation representing the coronary arteries are calculated based on the patient-specific anatomical measurements and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient at rest. Patient-specific rest state boundary conditions of the model of coronary circulation representing the coronary arteries are calculated based on the patient-specific anatomical measurements and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient at rest. Hyperemic blood flow and pressure across at least one stenosis region of the coronary arteries are simulated using the model of coronary circulation and the patient-specific hyperemic boundary conditions. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is calculated for the at least one stenosis region based on the simulated hyperemic blood flow and pressure. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140056501 | Method and System for Multi-Atlas Segmentation of Brain Computed Tomography Image Data - A method and system for multi-atlas segmentation brain structures and vessel territories in a brain computed tomography (CT) image is disclosed. Each of a plurality of atlas images is individually registered to an input brain CT image, resulting in a plurality of warped atlas images. A region of interest is defined based on labeled brain structures in each of the plurality of warped atlas images. For each atlas image, a respective sum of squared difference (SSD) value is calculated between the corresponding warped atlas image and the brain CT image within the region of interest defined for the corresponding warped atlas image. A number of the atlas images are selected based on the SSD values calculated for the atlas images. The brain structures and vessel territories are segmented in the brain CT image using only the selected atlas images. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140043492 | Multi-Light Source Imaging For Hand Held Devices - Systems and methods are provided to record at least a first and a second image of a marking on a surface of an object with a mobile computing device including a processor, a display and a camera with a lens. The lens and the display are located at the same side of the body of the computing device. The first image is taken with a first part of the display illuminating the object and the second image is taken with a second part of the display illuminating the object illuminating the object from different directions. Different illumination directions provide different shadow effects related to ridges and grooves on the surface. Processing the images which are substantially registered allows extraction of markings created by ridges and or grooves on the surface of the object. Computer tablets and smart phones perform the steps of the present invention. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140040275 | SEMANTIC SEARCH TOOL FOR DOCUMENT TAGGING, INDEXING AND SEARCH - A semantic tagging engine automatically generates semantic tags for the given documents and enables semantic search, based on meanings of search terms and content tags. A Semantic Knowledge Management Tool (SKMT) forms a semantic search and knowledge management platform to search, analyze and manage enterprise content. SKMT scans different content sources and generates indexes of semantic keywords. Its interface allows users to manage various data sources, search, explore and visualize search results at semantic level. SKMT provides high precision of semantic search and semantic data visualization. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140039806 | ESTIMATING REMAINING USEFUL LIFE FROM PROGNOSTIC FEATURES DISCOVERED USING GENETIC PROGRAMMING - A method for estimating a remaining useful life of a system includes monitoring sensor data from sensors deployed within a system. A plurality of features are extracted from the sensor data. Tree graphs are generated including mathematical operators and features as nodes and a advanced feature is produced from each of the tree graphs by transforming the tree graphs into equations. A recursive operation including analyzing a fitness of each of the advanced features, performing crossover/mutation on the tree graphs, producing advanced features from the altered tree graphs, and analyzing the fitness of the altered tree graphs to produce at least one final advanced feature is performed. A remaining useful life of the system is calculated based on the final advanced feature. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140037228 | ZERO COMMUNICATION BLOCK PARTITIONING - A computer-implemented method for calculating a multi-dimensional wavelet transform in an image processing system comprising a plurality of computation units includes receiving multi-dimensional image data. An overlap value corresponding to a number of non-zero filter coefficients associated with the multi-dimensional wavelet transform is identified. Then the multi-dimensional image data is divided into a plurality of multi-dimensional arrays, wherein the multi-dimensional arrays overlap in each dimension by a number of pixels equal to the overlap value. A multi-dimensional wavelet transform is calculated for each multi-dimensional array, in parallel, across the plurality of computation units. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140035900 | Rendering of Design Data - Computer assisted design data is rendered in the cloud. A client-server relationship is provided for 3D rendering. To reduce the burden on the server, the 3D rendering adapts based on the client capabilities. Where possible, some of the 3D rendering is performed by the server and some by the client machine. The 3D rendering by the client machine may be limited to avoid transfer of geometrical data of the CAD data. Different textures or shaders are used for rendering images associated with motion. Dictionary information is accumulated by the client machine to reduce the number of coefficients later transferred to the client machine for 3D rendering. The model represented by the CAD data is used to predict rendered images so that video compression may be performed. The server sparsely renders an image and compressive sensing is used by the client machine to generate the complete image. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140032187 | STOCHASTIC STATE ESTIMATION FOR SMART GRIDS - A method of approximating a solution of a stochastic state estimation (SSE) model of an electric grid, includes choosing ( | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032000 | Power System Stabilization Using Distributed Inverters - A power grid of renewable sources is stabilized. Inverters for connecting power sources, such as wind turbines, batteries, or photovoltaics, to a grid are used to damp grid oscillations. The damping is distributed to the inverters, but based on measurements for the grid rather than local measurements. The control of the damping is based on grid wide analysis, and the damping is performed proportionately by already existing inverters distributed throughout the grid. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140029823 | Method and System for Automatic Prostate Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images - A method and system for fully automatic segmentation the prostate in magnetic resonance (MR) image data is disclosed. Intensity normalization is performed on an MR image of a patient to adjust for global contrast changes between the MR image and other MR scans and to adjust for intensity variation within the MR image due to an endorectal coil used to acquire the MR image. An initial prostate segmentation in the MR image is obtained by aligning a learned statistical shape model of the prostate to the MR image using marginal space learning (MSL). The initial prostate segmentation is refined using one or more trained boundary classifiers. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140026145 | PARALLEL PROCESSING IN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE APPLICATIONS - A human-machine interface (HMI) application ( | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140024932 | Computation of Hemodynamic Quantities From Angiographic Data - Methods for computing hemodynamic quantities include: (a) acquiring angiography data from a patient; (b) calculating a flow and/or calculating a change in pressure in a blood vessel of the patient based on the angiography data; and (c) computing the hemodynamic quantity based on the flow and/or the change in pressure. Systems for computing hemodynamic quantities and computer readable storage media are described. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140022250 | System and Method for Patient Specific Planning and Guidance of Ablative Procedures for Cardiac Arrhythmias - A method and system for patient-specific planning and guidance of an ablation procedure for cardiac arrhythmia is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical heart model is generated based on pre-operative cardiac image data. The patient-specific anatomical heart model is registered to a coordinate system of intra-operative images acquired during the ablation procedure. One or more ablation site guidance maps are generated based on the registered patient-specific anatomical heart model and intra-operative patient-specific measurements acquired during the ablation procedure. The ablation site guidance maps may include myocardium diffusion and action potential duration maps. The ablation site guidance maps are generated using a computational model of cardiac electrophysiology which is personalized by fitting parameters of the cardiac electrophysiology model using the intra-operative patient-specific measurements. The ablation site guidance maps are displayed by a display device during the ablation procedure. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140019104 | CONTEXT-BASED SYNTHESIS OF SIMULATION MODELS FROM FUNCTIONAL MODELS OF CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS - An approach and tool integrate cyber-physical systems design based on the function-behavior-state (FBS) methodology where multi-domain simulation models capturing both the behavioral and structural aspects of a system are automatically generated from its functional description. The approach focuses on simulation-enabled FBS models using automatic and context-sensitive mappings of functional basis elementary functions to simulation components described in physical modeling languages. Potentially beneficial process loops are recognized and inserted in the functional model. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140018665 | COMPRESSABLE CATHETER TIP WITH IMAGE-BASED FORCE SENSING - A catheter ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140012558 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED AND PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR, IMAGING, AND CLINICAL DATA FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT OF DISEASES - A system operating in a plurality of modes to provide an integrated analysis of molecular data, imaging data, and clinical data associated with a patient includes a multi-scale model, a molecular model, and a linking component. The multi-scale model is configured to generate one or more estimated multi-scale parameters based on the clinical data and the imaging data when the system operates in a first mode, and generate a model of organ functionality based on one or more inferred multi-scale parameters when the system operates in a second mode. The molecular model is configured to generate one or more first molecular findings based on a molecular network analysis of the molecular data, wherein the molecular model is constrained by the estimated parameters when the system operates in the first mode. The linking component, which is operably coupled to the multi-scale model and the molecular model, is configured to transfer the estimated multi-scale parameters from the multi-scale model to the molecular model when the system operates in the first mode, and generate, using a machine learning process, the inferred multi-scale parameters based on the molecular findings when the system operates in the second mode. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140009598 | Pipeline Inspection Piglets - For pipeline inspection, a small, untethered capsule (a “piglet”) images from within a pipeline. The capsule is small enough that rotation about any of three orthogonal axes while within the pipeline is possible. Movement both along the pipeline and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis is possible. To assure images of the pipeline without viewing gaps, the field of view for imaging surrounds the capsule without a gap. Given the possible rotation and translation, the captured images may be motion compensated to provide oriented images of a length of the pipeline. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20130343642 | MACHINE-LEARNT PERSON RE-IDENTIFICATION - Automated person re-identification may be assisted by consideration of attributes of the person in a joint classification with matching of the person. By both solving for similarities in a plurality of attributes and identities, discriminative interactions may be captured. Automated person re-identification may be assisted by consideration of a semantic color name. Rather than a color histogram, probability distributions are mapped to color terms of the semantic color name. Using other descriptors as well, similarity measures for the various descriptors are weighted and combined into a score. Either or both considerations may be used. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130333896 | APPLICATION OF HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND TO THE DISPLACEMENT OF DRILLING MUD - A method for disrupting an obstruction from a wellbore includes determining a location of an obstruction within a wellbore. An ultrasound transducer is deployed down an interior of a casing in the wellbore. Ultrasound energy is focused, using the ultrasound transducer, to the determined location of the obstruction and the obstruction is disrupted using the focused ultrasound energy. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130332773 | GENERALIZED PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN MACHINE CONDITION MONITORING - A generalized pattern recognition is used to identify faults in machine condition monitoring. Pattern clusters are identified in operating data. A classifier is trained using the pattern clusters in addition to annotated training data. The operating data is also used to cluster the signals in the operating data into signal clusters. Monitored data samples are then classified by evaluating confidence vectors that include substitutions of signals contained in the training data by signals in the same signal clusters as the signals contained in the training data. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130331687 | Combined Cardiac and Respiratory Motion Compensation for Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Procedures - A method for compensating cardiac and respiratory motion in atrial fibrillation ablation procedures includes (a) simultaneously determining a position of a circumferential mapping (CFM) catheter and a coronary sinus (CS) catheter in two consecutive image frames of a series of first 2-D image frames; (b) determining a distance between a virtual electrode on the CS catheter and a center of the CFM catheter for a first image frame of the two consecutive image frames, and for a second image frame of the two consecutive image frames; and (c) if an absolute difference of the distance for the first image frame and the distance for the second image frame is greater than a predetermined threshold, compensating for motion of the CFM catheter in a second 2-D image. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130325762 | ADAPTIVE REMOTE MAINTENANCE OF ROLLING STOCKS - Adaptive remote maintenance of rolling stocks is provided by machine-learning ( | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130320974 | EFFICIENT REDUNDANT HAAR MINIMIZATION FOR PARALLEL MRI RECONSTRUCTION - A method for parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction of digital images includes providing a set of acquired k-space MR image data v, a redundant Haar wavelet matrix W satisfying W | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130308790 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DOPPLER RECOGNITION AIDED METHOD (DREAM) FOR SOURCE LOCALIZATION AND SEPARATION - Systems and methods are provided for source localization and separation by sampling a large scale microphone array asynchronously to simulate a smaller size but moving microphone array. Signals that arrive from different angles at the array are shifted differently in their frequency content. The sources are separated by evaluating correlated and even equal frequency content. Compressive sampling enables the utilization of extremely large scale microphone arrays by reducing the computational effort orders of magnitude in comparison to standard synchronous sampling approaches. Processor based systems to perform the source separation methods are also provided. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130305224 | Rules Engine for Architectural Governance - A software architecture as designed is governed. A rules engine tests code for implemented architectural decisions. Deviation from designed architecture is detected by execution of the rules engine. To create the rules engine, the architecture is broken down into automatically testable architectural decisions. The decisions can be tested, allowing creation and application of the rules engine. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130305223 | Dashboard for Architectural Governance - A software architecture as designed is governed. A rules engine tests code for implemented architectural decisions. Deviation from designed architecture is detected by execution of the rules engine. The dashboard generates a graphical or textual representation indicating violations and/or changes in the implemented architecture over time. A dashboard assists in managing implementation of the architecture by indicating deviation or the results of change to coding. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130304235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAULT PROGNOSTICS ENHANCED MPC FRAMEWORK - A model predictive control (MPC) framework is enhanced to provide prognostic information and fault tolerant control strategies. A system fault is calculated based on predicted values and is used to generate an internal reference trajectory to which the system is controlled using MPC. If the system fault exceeds a threshold maximum, then the MPC control model is either tuned or reconfigured depending on whether the fault is external or internal. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130301897 | METHOD OF DEFORMABLE MOTION CORRECTION AND IMAGE REGISTRATION IN X-RAY STENT IMAGING | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130301895 | AUTOMATIC REFERNCE SELECTION FOR REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL IMAGING TIME SERIES - A reference selection method includes receiving a plurality of volumes imaging an object of interest ( | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130298937 | HIGH INTENSITY ULTRASOUND FOR PIPELINE OBSTRUCTION REMEDIATION - High intensity ultrasound is used for pipeline obstruction remediation. Ultrasound transducers are positioned around an outside of the pipeline. The transducers transmit acoustic energy into the obstruction. The acoustic energy heats the obstruction at a location spaced away from the walls of the pipeline. As the obstruction heats, an opening may be formed in the obstruction, relieving pressure build-up without releasing the plug. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130294667 | Method and System for Pericardium Based Model Fusion of Pre-operative and Intra-operative Image Data for Cardiac Interventions - A method and system for model based fusion pre-operative image data, such as computed tomography (CT), and intra-operative C-arm CT is disclosed. A first pericardium model is segmented in the pre-operative image data and a second pericardium model is segmented in a C-arm CT volume. A deformation field is estimated between the first pericardium model and the second pericardium model. A model of a target cardiac structure, such as a heart chamber model or an aorta model, extracted from the pre-operative image data is fused with the C-arm CT volume based on the estimated deformation field between the first pericardium model and the second pericardium model. An intelligent weighted average may be used improve the model based fusion results using models of the target cardiac structure extracted from pre-operative image data of patients other than a current patient. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130289912 | EIGEN-VECTOR APPROACH FOR COIL SENSITIVITY MAPS ESTIMATION - A method for estimating a coil sensitivity map for a magnetic resonance (MR) image includes providing ( | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130287293 | Active Lighting For Stereo Reconstruction Of Edges - Active lighting is provided for stereo reconstruction ( | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130282005 | CATHETER NAVIGATION SYSTEM - An integrated catheter navigation system ( | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130279825 | MOTION COMPENSATED OVERLAY - A method for displaying a motion compensated overlay includes receiving a model of a structure of interest, capturing an image depicting a region of interest and an instrument, determining whether the structure of interest is visible in the image, registering the model of the structure of interest to the image upon determining that the structure of interest is visible, and combining the model of the structure of interest with the image according to a registration to determine an overlay image. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130279780 | Method and System for Model Based Fusion on Pre-Operative Computed Tomography and Intra-Operative Fluoroscopy Using Transesophageal Echocardiography - A method and system for model-based fusion of pre-operative image data and intra-operative fluoroscopic images is disclosed. A fluoroscopic image and an ultrasound image are received. The ultrasound image is mapped to a 3D coordinate system of a fluoroscopic image acquisition device used to acquire the fluoroscopic image. Contours of an anatomical structure are detected in the ultrasound image, and a transformation is calculated between the ultrasound image and a pre-operative CT image based on the contours and a patient-specific physiological model extracted from the pre-operative CT image. A final mapping is determined between the CT image and the fluoroscopic image based on the transformation between the ultrasound image and physiological model and the mapping of the ultrasound image to the 3D coordinate system of the fluoroscopic image acquisition device. The CT image or the physiological model can then be projected into the fluoroscopic image. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130275128 | CHANNEL DETECTION IN NOISE USING SINGLE CHANNEL DATA - Methods related to Generalized Mutual Interdependence Analysis (GMIA), a low complexity statistical method for projecting data in a subspace that captures invariant properties of the data, are implemented on a processor based system. GMIA methods are applied to the signal processing problem of voice activity detection and classification. Real-world conversational speech data are modeled to fit the GMIA assumptions. Low complexity GMIA computations extract reliable features for classification of sound under noisy conditions and operate with small amounts of data. A speaker is characterized by a slow varying or invariant channel that is learned and is tracked from single channel data by GMIA methods. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130274940 | CLOUD ENABLED BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM - A method of controlling energy consumption in a building. The method includes receiving occupant request data comprising a plurality of requests, wherein each of the plurality of requests corresponds to one of a plurality of zones in the building wherein the occupant request data is received via a cloud computing resource. The method also includes receiving weather data comprising at least one of current weather measurement data and weather forecast data wherein the weather data is received via a cloud computing resource. In addition, a facility management rule is received via a cloud computing resource. Further, the method includes generating a plurality of output control signals via cloud computing resource, wherein each of the plurality of output control signals is based on one of a plurality of requests and predicted occupant schedules, energy price data and the facility management rule. The control signals are generated by using simulation-based model predictive control method to determine a set of optimized control signals based on optimized energy use or optimized energy cost. The optimized control signals are transmitted to controllers. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130272591 | PHASE SENSITIVE T1 MAPPING IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - Phase sensitive T1 mapping is provided in magnetic resonance (MR). The phase from samples of a modified Look-Locker inversion recovery sequence may be used to normalize contrast, allowing for accurate motion registration without extra information acquisition. The sign may be estimated, allowing T1 mapping with a single application of a non-linear fit. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130272587 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION ON MOBILE DEVICES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A mobile device ( | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130268214 | PROBABILISTIC FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION USING ULTRASONIC INSPECTION DATA CONSIDERING EIFS UNCERTAINTY - A method for probabilistically predicting fatigue life in materials includes sampling a random variable for an actual equivalent initial flaw size (EIFS), generating random variables for parameters (ln C, m) of a fatigue crack growth equation | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130266198 | METHOD FOR CREATING ATTENUATION CORRECTION MAPS FOR PET IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130262041 | Three-Dimensional Model Determination from Two-Dimensional Sketch with Two-Dimensional Refinement - A three-dimensional model is determined from a two-dimensional sketch. Rather than or in addition to modification of 3D constraints to reduce gaps in the 3D model, 2D constraints are modified. The geometry of the 2D sketch is altered in the view plane (x, y) or 2D input instead of maintaining the geometry of the 2D sketch and only modifying in the view direction (z). Gaps may be reduced through alteration of the 2D geometry. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130261446 | Robotic Navigated Nuclear Probe Imaging - Robotic navigation is provided for nuclear probe imaging. Using a three-dimensional scanner ( | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259343 | ALTERNATING DIRECTION OF MULTIPLIERS METHOD FOR PARALLEL MRI RECONSTRUCTION - A method for reconstructing parallel magnetic resonance images includes providing a set of acquired k-space MR image data y, and finding a target MR image x that minimizes ½∥Fv−y∥ | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259341 | IMAGE FUSION FOR INTERVENTIONAL GUIDANCE - A method for real-time fusion of a 2D cardiac ultrasound image with a 2D cardiac fluoroscopic image includes acquiring real time synchronized US and fluoroscopic images, detecting a surface contour of an aortic valve in the 2D cardiac ultrasound (US) image relative to an US probe, detecting a pose of the US probe in the 2D cardiac fluoroscopic image, and using pose parameters of the US probe to transform the surface contour of the aortic valve from the 2D cardiac US image to the 2D cardiac fluoroscopic image. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259337 | Cardiac Chamber Volume Computation from Contours and Base Plane in Cardiac MR Cine Images - A system receives cardiac cine MR images consists of multiple slices of the heart over time. A series of short axis images slices are received. Long axis images are also received by the system, wherein a base plane defined by landmark points is detected. An intersection of the base plane with a contour of a heart chamber is determined for a plurality of slices in the short axis image. A volume for each of the contour slices covering the heart chamber, including for contours that are limited by base plane intersections, is evaluated. All slice volumes are summed to determine a total volume of the chamber. In one embodiment the chamber is a left ventricle and the landmark is a mitral valve. An ejection factor is determined. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130255937 | HIGH SPEED CEMENT BOND LOGGING AND INTERACTIVE TARGETED INTERVENTION - A method for cement bond logging and targeted intervention, including lowering a cylindrical n×m array of ultrasound (US) transducers into a well, firing the US transducers to transmit US signals into a well casing, converting reflected US signals received by the transducers into electronic form and transmit the converted signals to a control unit, analyzing the converted signals to detect holidays, if a holiday is detected, determining a position and angle of the holiday with respect to the transducers, and applying a high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) signal to the well casing to fill the holiday. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130246034 | Method and System for Non-Invasive Functional Assessment of Coronary Artery Stenosis - A method and system for non-invasive assessment of coronary artery stenosis is disclosed. Patient-specific anatomical measurements of the coronary arteries are extracted from medical image data of a patient acquired during rest state. Patient-specific rest state boundary conditions of a model of coronary circulation representing the coronary arteries are calculated based on the patient-specific anatomical measurements and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient at rest. Patient-specific rest state boundary conditions of the model of coronary circulation representing the coronary arteries are calculated based on the patient-specific anatomical measurements and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient at rest. Hyperemic blood flow and pressure across at least one stenosis region of the coronary arteries are simulated using the model of coronary circulation and the patient-specific hyperemic boundary conditions. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is calculated for the at least one stenosis region based on the simulated hyperemic blood flow and pressure. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130245429 | ROBUST MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING USING SPARSE APPEARANCE REPRESENTATION AND ONLINE SPARSE APPEARANCE DICTIONARY UPDATE - A computer-implemented method for tracking one or more objects in a sequence of images includes generating a dictionary based on object locations in a first image included in the sequence of images. One or more object landmark candidates are identified in the sequence of images and a plurality of tracking hypothesis for the object landmark candidates are generated. A first tracking hypothesis is selected from the plurality of tracking hypothesis based on the dictionary. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130243352 | Global Error Minimization In Image Mosaicking Using Graph Laplacians And Its Applications In Microscopy - An image mosaicking method includes performing pairwise registration of a plurality of tiles ( | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130243294 | Method and System for Hemodynamic Assessment of Aortic Coarctation from Medical Image Data - A method and system for non-invasive hemodynamic assessment of aortic coarctation from medical image data, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is disclosed. Patient-specific lumen anatomy of the aorta and supra-aortic arteries is estimated from medical image data of a patient, such as contrast enhanced MRI. Patient-specific aortic blood flow rates are estimated from the medical image data of the patient, such as velocity encoded phase-contrasted MRI cine images. Patient-specific inlet and outlet boundary conditions for a computational model of aortic blood flow are calculated based on the patient-specific lumen anatomy, the patient-specific aortic blood flow rates, and non-invasive clinical measurements of the patient. Aortic blood flow and pressure are computed over the patient-specific lumen anatomy using the computational model of aortic blood flow and the patient-specific inlet and outlet boundary conditions. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130243292 | NETWORK CYCLE FEATURES IN RELATIVE NEIGHBORHOOD GRAPHS - Methods for analyzing biomedical data include: (a) obtaining macroscopic imaging data; (b) obtaining histopathological imaging data; (c) executing a parallel algorithm stored on a non-transient computer-readable medium to compute one or a plurality of network cycle features of a relative neighborhood graph derived from the histopathological imaging data; (d) registering the macroscopic imaging data and the histopathological imaging data; and (e) correlating the macroscopic imaging data and the network cycle features. Systems for analyzing biomedical data and computer readable storage media are described. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130238294 | GLOBAL SOLUTIONS OF SMART BUILDING-GRID ENERGY MANAGEMENT MODELS - According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for optimizing a cost of electric power generation in a smart site energy management model, including providing a cost function that models a smart building-grid energy system of a plurality of buildings on a site interconnected with electric power grid energy resources and constraints due to a building model, an electric grid model, and a building-grid interface model, where decision variables for each of the building model, the electric grid model, and the building-grid interface model are box-constrained, and minimizing the cost function subject to the building model constraints, the electric grid model constraints, and building-grid interface model constraints. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130238148 | INTERIOR POINT METHOD FOR REFORMULATED OPTIMAL POWER FLOW MODEL - A method for approximating an optimal power flow of a smart electric power grid includes providing a cost function that models a smart electric power grid having buses connected by branches, deriving a set of linear equations that minimize the cost function subject to constraints from an expression of an extremum of the cost function with respect to all arguments, reducing a dimension of the linear equations by solving for a subset of the linear equations, re-organizing the reduced dimension linear equations into primal and dual parts, and decomposing the re-organized reduced dimensional linear equations into two systems of block matrix equations which can be solved by a series of back substitutions. A solution of the two systems of block matrix equations yields conditions for a lowest cost per kilowatthour delivered through the smart electric power grid. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130231792 | System and Method of Energy Management Control - A method of controlling energy consumption in a building includes receiving occupancy data including at least one of occupant request data and occupant schedule data, receiving weather data including at least one of current weather measurement data and weather forecast data, generating an output control signal based on the occupancy data and the weather data, and transmitting the output control signal to a building automation system (BAS) of the building. The occupant request data includes a current request, and the occupant schedule data includes a predicted occupant schedule. The output control signal adjusts a building control device in a zone in the building. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130231552 | Method and System for Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from Magnetic Resonance Images - A method and system for automated diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from magnetic resonance images is disclosed. Anatomical features are extracted from a structural magnetic resonance image (MRI) of a patient. Functional features are extracted from a resting-state functional MRI (rsFMRI) series of the patient. An ADHD diagnosis for the patient is determined based on the anatomical features, the functional features, and phenotypic features of the patient using a trained classifier. An ADHD subtype may then be determined for patients diagnosed as ADHD positive using a second trained classifier. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130226542 | Method and System for Fast Patient-Specific Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulations for Therapy Planning and Guidance - A method and system for patient-specific cardiac electrophysiology is disclosed. Particularly, a patient-specific anatomical model of a heart is generated from medical image data of a patient, a level-set representation of the patient-specific anatomical model is generated of the heart on a Cartesian grid; and a transmembrane action potential at each node of the level-set representation of the of the patient-specific anatomical model of the heart is computed on a Cartesian grid. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226359 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TOTAL COST OPTIMIZATION FOR BUILDINGS WITH HYBRID VENTILATION - A method including: computing a total cost for a first zone in a building, wherein the total cost is equal to an actual energy cost of the first zone plus a thermal discomfort cost of the first zone; and heuristically optimizing the total cost to identify temperature setpoints for a mechanical heating/cooling system and a start time and an end time of the mechanical heating/cooling system, based on external weather data and occupancy data of the first zone. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130223704 | Method and System for Joint Multi-Organ Segmentation in Medical Image Data Using Local and Global Context - A method and system for segmenting multiple organs in medical image data is disclosed. A plurality of landmarks of a plurality of organs are detected in a medical image using an integrated local and global context detector. A global posterior integrates evidence of a plurality of image patches to generate location predictions for the landmarks. For each landmark, a trained discriminative classifier for that landmark evaluates the location predictions for that landmark based on local context. A segmentation of each of the plurality of organs is then generated based on the detected landmarks. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130218003 | RAPID ENTRY POINT LOCALIZATION FOR PERCUTANEOUS INTERVENTIONS - A method for localizing a skin entry point on a patient for a percutaneous intervention includes planning a needle trajectory for the percutaneous intervention using a 3D planning image dataset and a planning application, performing a superior-inferior localization of an imaging scanner table containing an imaging scanner using the needle trajectory, and performing a lateral localization of the skin entry point using the needle trajectory. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218002 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR ULTRASOUND IMAGE SIMULATION - Ultrasound data is simulated using magnetic resonance (MR) elastography. MR elastography provides tissue characteristic information, such as elastic modulus, velocity, or stiffness. This tissue characteristic information indicates a density or viscosity of the tissue, allowing simulation of ultrasound data with MR acquired data. The same MR imaging system may be used to acquire the MR elastography and pre-operative anatomy information. The actual ultrasound information may be registered with simulated ultrasound information for registration of the actual ultrasound information with the MR anatomy information. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130216110 | Method and System for Coronary Artery Centerline Extraction - A method and system for extracting coronary artery centerlines from 3D medical image volumes is disclosed. Heart chambers are segmented in a 3D volume. Coronary artery centerlines are initialized in the 3D volume coronary artery based on the segmented heart chambers. The coronary artery centerlines are locally refined based on a vesselness measure. A length of each coronary artery centerline is shrunk to verify that the coronary artery centerline is within a coronary artery. The coronary artery centerline is the extended using data-driven vessel tracing. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130208989 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHAPE MEASUREMENTS ON THICK MPR IMAGES - A method for measuring shapes in thick multi-planar reformatted (MPR) digital images, including identifying a shape in a digital MPR image, scan-converting points corresponding to the identified shape on a starting plane of an MPR slab in an image volume from which the MPR was obtained to generate a plurality of starting points for the identified shape, calculating an end point in the MPR slab corresponding to each starting point, propagating a ray from each starting point to each corresponding end point, accumulating samples along each ray, and computing a desired measurement value from the accumulated samples after reaching the end point for all rays. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130208960 | NON-RIGID COMPOSITION OF MULTIPLE OVERLAPPING MEDICAL IMAGING VOLUMES - A method, including: registering a new image volume with a composed image volume ( | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130198227 | TEMPORAL PATTERN MATCHING IN LARGE COLLECTIONS OF LOG MESSAGES - A method for identifying a plurality of patterns of events from within event log file data includes receiving a query comprising a plurality of patterns, each of the patterns comprising a plurality of events. One or more key events is determined from the plurality of patterns of events. The one or more key events is located within a database of stored event log file data. An event stream comprising the key events and all other events of the event log file data occurring within a predetermined time span from the time of the located one or more events is generated. Each of the plurality of patterns of the received query are searched for from within the event stream. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130197884 | Method and System for Advanced Measurements Computation and Therapy Planning from Medical Data and Images Using a Multi-Physics Fluid-Solid Heart Model - Method and system for computation of advanced heart measurements from medical images and data; and therapy planning using a patient-specific multi-physics fluid-solid heart model is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the left and right ventricles is generated from medical image patient data. A patient-specific computational heart model is generated based on the patient-specific anatomical model of the left and right ventricles and patient-specific clinical data. The computational model includes biomechanics, electrophysiology and hemodynamics. To generate the patient-specific computational heart model, initial patient-specific parameters of an electrophysiology model, initial patient-specific parameters of a biomechanics model, and initial patient-specific computational fluid dynamics (CFD) boundary conditions are marginally estimated. A coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulation is performed using the initial patient-specific parameters, and the initial patient-specific parameters are refined based on the coupled FSI simulation. The estimated model parameters then constitute new advanced measurements that can be used for decision making. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130197881 | Method and System for Patient Specific Planning of Cardiac Therapies on Preoperative Clinical Data and Medical Images - A method and system for patient-specific planning of cardiac therapy, such as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), based on preoperative clinical data and medical images, such as ECG data, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and ultrasound data, is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the left and right ventricles is generated from medical image data of a patient. A patient-specific computational heart model, which comprises cardiac electrophysiology, biomechanics and hemodynamics, is generated based on the patient-specific anatomical model of the left and right ventricles and clinical data. Simulations of cardiac therapies, such as CRT at one or more anatomical locations are performed using the patient-specific computational heart model. Changes in clinical cardiac parameters are then computed from the patient-specific model, constituting predictors of therapy outcome useful for therapy planning and optimization. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130197854 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING MACHINE TOOL COMPONENT FAULTS - A machine tool system is diagnosed by identifying a fault class to which an input measurement vector belongs. The fault class corresponds to a group of weight vectors in a code book of a self organized map that describes the machine tool system based on training data. Probabilities that the input measurement vector belongs to a given class are estimated based on the posterior probability of the weight vectors of the code book corresponding to the given class given the input measurement vector. Training data to create the code book may be collected under a first operating condition while the input measurement vector is collected under a second operating condition. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130191320 | METRIC TO ASSESS THE SYSTEM RELIABILITY IMPACT OF DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION FAILURES - A method for assessing the survivability of a distributed automation power grid in response to a failure. The method including: generating a failure in a section of a grid; identifying the location of the section and isolating the section; aggregating sections of the grid downstream from the failed section into a first group and sections of the grid upstream from the failed section into a second group; computing, using a Markov chain, a first parameter indicating whether a communication network of the grid is operational after the failure; computing, using a Markov chain, a second parameter indicating whether enough backup energy exists for the second group after the failure; and computing, using a Markov chain, a third parameter based on the first and second parameters, wherein the third parameter is indicative of the time required for the grid to be restored to its operating state prior to the failure. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191189 | NON-ENFORCEMENT AUTONOMOUS PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS - Methods and systems based on Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) determine that a vehicle occupies a parking spot. A road-side system checks in the vehicle having an on-board DSRC system into a parking system. The system provides the on-board DSRC system with a parking rate and the on-board DSRC system provides the road-side system with payment data. A final parking fee is determined and is charged after the vehicle has left the parking spot. Parking rates are determined dynamically based on existing and/or expected conditions. A planning system provides a vehicle with a parking spot at a scheduled time. Navigation data is provided to the vehicle to reach the scheduled parking spot. Traffic and environmental policies are enforced by applying the methods and systems. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191100 | BLOOD FLOW COMPUTATION IN VESSELS WITH IMPLANTED DEVICES - A method for modeling blood flow through a flow diverter includes receiving a medical image containing blood vessels. Vessel geometry is extracted from the received medical image. Inlets and outlets are tagged within the extracted vessel geometry. A desired flow diverter is selected. A model of the selected flow diverter is generated within the imaged blood vessel, the model representing the flow diverter as a tube having a porous surface characterized by a viscous resistance and an inertial resistance. A course of blood flow though the flow diverter is predicted based on the generated model, the extracted vessel geometry, and the tagged inlets and outlets. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191041 | INSULATION DEFECT DETECTION OF HIGH VOLTAGE GENERATOR STATOR CORE - In a general methodology for insulation defect identification in a generator core, a Chattock coil is used to measure magnetic potential difference between teeth. Physical knowledge and empirical knowledge is combined in a model to predict insulation damage location and severity. Measurements are taken at multiple excitation frequencies to solve for multiple characteristics of the defect. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191039 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DETERMINISTIC FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION FOR ROTOR MATERIALS - A method of fatigue life prediction including: calculating a critical crack size of an object of interest; identifying a first flaw in ultrasound data of the object of interest; determining that the first flaw interacts with a second flaw, the first flaw is to be merged with the second flaw, or the first flaw is isolated; calculating an initial crack size based on the determination; and calculating an increase in the initial crack size due to fatigue and creep to determine a number of load cycles until the initial crack size reaches the critical crack size. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130190602 | 2D3D REGISTRATION FOR MR-X RAY FUSION UTILIZING ONE ACQUISITION OF MR DATA - Systems and methods for 2D3D registration of apply MR volumes and X-ray images using DRR techniques. A bone classifier is trained from co-registered UTE1, UTE2 and CT prior images. Dual-echo MR UTE1 and UTE2 images are acquired from a patient. The bone structure of the patient is classified and a labeled segmentation is generated. A DRR image is generated from the labeled segmentation and is registered with an X-ray image of the patient. The registration methods are implemented on a processor based system. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130187913 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SNAPPING NORMALS TO CREATE FAIR 3D SURFACES FROM EDGE CURVES - A method for generating a three dimensional (3D) surface includes receiving an input corresponding to a plurality of curves joined to define a single edge loop, analyzing each of the plurality of curves to define a plurality of edge segments based on an identified curve feature, calculating snap normal vectors for the endpoints of each of the plurality of edge segments, dividing the segmented edge loop into sub-loops based on the plurality of edge segments, determining the surface normal vectors for the sub-loops and combining these values with the snap surface normals at each end point to produce a final surface normal for each end point, and generating the continuous 3D surface based on triangles associated with the segmented edge loop and the surface normals associated with the end points. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130185594 | AUTOMATED TESTING OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS - An arrangement for providing integrated, model-based testing of industrial systems in the form of a model-based test design module, a test execution engine and an automated test infrastructure (ATI) component. The ATI component includes a keyword processor that interfaces with test commands created by the design module to implement the testing of a specific industrial system. Configuration and deployment information is also automatically created by the design module and used by the ATI component to set up and control the specific industrial system being tested. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130177230 | IMPLANT POSE DETERMINATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING - The pose of an implant represented in a medical image is determined from the medical image. The x-ray image of the implant is compared to a database of the implant viewed at different poses (e.g., viewed from different directions). The implant pose associated with the best match indicates the pose of the implant in the x-ray image. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130172739 | MULTI-MODAL MEDICAL IMAGING - A nuclear probe and ultrasound transducer are interconnected, such as being in a same hand-held housing. The interconnection aligns the coordinate systems in a known spatial relationship. The ultrasound data is used to detect transducer offset or change in position without a tracking sensor. The radiation detected by the nuclear probe may be reconstructed into an image based on the detected transducer position since the nuclear probe moves with the ultrasound transducer. Both anatomical and functional imaging may be provided together without the complications of calibration and tracking. Where a therapeutic transducer is included, therapy may also be provided. The anatomical and functional information identifies the regions for treatment. The same device, already positioned correctly based on the functional and anatomical imaging, is then used for treatment with high intensity focused ultrasound. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130172732 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING DYNAMIC REGISTRATION, OVERLAYS, AND 3D VIEWS WITH FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGES | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130162846 | TRIGGER FOR BLADE IMAGING BASED ON A CONTROLLER - A rotating rotor in a turbine has blades attached. At least one blade is a reference blade of which a reference position is determined by a Once-Per-Rotation sensor. A camera positioned at a viewing port takes a sequence of images of all the blades during a rotation at a trigger moment determined by a controller. The controller receives a signal indicating that the reference blade passes its reference point. The controller is provided with data about the number of blades, the position of the camera and a desired dwell of an image related to the blade. The controller calculates the trigger moments and generates trigger signals to the camera. The trigger moment is adjusted for changing rotor speed by extracting a blade feature from blade images. The camera records images that are labeled and stored as image data on a storage device. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130159774 | DYNAMIC REPRIORITIZATION OF TEST CASES DURING TEST EXECUTION - Systems and methods are described that dynamically reprioritize test cases for Model-Based Testing (MBT) during test execution. Test case execution is prioritized according to their potential to detect uncovered failures within a design model. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130158385 | Therapeutic Ultrasound for Use with Magnetic Resonance - Therapeutic ultrasound applicator is provided for use with magnetic resonance system. An array of many elements, such as a multi-dimensional array, is used. To avoid cabling, the transmitters are positioned at the array. The array and transmitters are shielded to reduce interference. To avoid large inductors for the many elements, an acoustic matching layer may be sized to provide a desired phase angle or electrical impedance matching. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130154913 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A GAZE AND GESTURE INTERFACE - A system and methods for activating and interacting by a user with at least a 3D object displayed on a 3D computer display by at least the user's gestures which may be combined with a user's gaze at the 3D computer display. In a first instance the 3D object is a 3D CAD object. In a second instance the 3D object is a radial menu. A user's gaze is captured by ahead frame containing at least an endo camera and an exo camera worn by a user. A user's gesture is captured by a camera and is recognized from a plurality of gestures. User's gestures are captured by a sensor and are calibrated to the 3D computer display. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130153241 | BLOW OUT PREVENTER (BOP) CORROBORATOR - Systems and methods supplementing existing management methods to corroborate performance of a blow out preventer for a submerged well. The corroborator is located on the blow out preventer and includes a flow meter external to a pipe to measure flow inside the pipe, a pipe joint locator, a ram seal confirmation agent and a dedicated communication connection from the corroborator to a computer topside. Data from at least one sensor topside, which may represent a mud tank level, is also received. The computer calculates a probability that a malfunction related to the well occurs. The computer implements a Principal Component Analysis model of the well based on historical data, to assess a likelihood that a threshold value will be surpassed based on collected sensor data and to generate an alert. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130144573 | Method and System for Patient-Specific Hemodynamic Assessment of Virtual Stent Implantation - A method and system for assessment of virtual stent implantation in an aortic aneurysm is disclosed. A patient-specific 4D anatomical model of the aorta is generated from the 4D medical imaging data. A model representing mechanical properties of the aorta wall is adjusted to reflect changes due to aneurysm growth at a plurality of time stages. A stable deformation configuration of the aorta is generated for each time stages by performing fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations using the patient-specific 4D anatomical model at each time stage based on the adjusted model representing the mechanical properties of the aorta wall at each time stage. Virtual stent implantation is performed for each stable deformation configuration of the aorta and FSI simulations are performed for each virtual stent implantation. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130141092 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNING PARAMETERS | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130137968 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE DISTORTION CORRECTION WITH A REFERENCE VOLUME - Distortion correction is provided in magnetic resonance imaging. Distortions in one volume are corrected using another volume. The isocenter of the other volume is nearer to an edge of the one volume than the isocenter of the one volume. Using data registration, the other volume is used to correct distortions in the one volume. The other volume may be acquired in little time relative to the acquisition of the one volume by having a smaller field of view, lower resolution, and/or smaller signal-to-noise ratio. The other volume may be a connecting volume for correcting distortions in two volumes to be composed together. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130129170 | Method and System for Precise Segmentation of the Left Atrium in C-Arm Computed Tomography Volumes - A method and system for multi-part left atrium (LA) segmentation in a C-arm CT volume is disclosed. Multiple LA part models, including an LA chamber body mesh, an appendage mesh, a left inferior pulmonary vein (PV) mesh, a left superior PV mesh, a right inferior PV mesh, and a right superior PV mesh, are segmented in a 3D volume. A volume mask is generated from the LA chamber mesh, the appendage mesh, and the PV meshes. Erosion is performed in the LA chamber body and a plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask. The plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask are refined using region growing, and a smooth mesh is fit to each ostia region. A consolidated LA mesh is generated from the volume mask and the parts of the LA mesh are relabeled in the ostia region based on part boundaries detected using an optimization approach. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130121550 | Non-Contrast-Enhanced 4D MRA Using Compressed Sensing Reconstruction - A reconstructed image is rendered of a patient by a processor from a set of undersampled MRI data by first subtracting two repetitions of the acquired data in k-space to create a third dataset. The processor reconstructs the image by minimizing an objective function under a constraint related to the third dataset, wherein the objective function includes applying a Karhunen-Loeve Transform (KLT) to a temporal dimension of data. The objective function under the constraint is expressed as arg min | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130114872 | COMPRESSED SENSING USING REGIONAL SPARSITY - A method for reconstructing an image includes acquiring raw image data during a scan of an area, estimating an image from the raw image data, separating the estimated image into a region of interest (ROI) and a background region, and applying compressed sensing to iteratively update only the ROI and maintain the background region to reconstruct an image. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130113816 | VISUALIZING BRAIN NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - A method for visualizing brain connectivity includes receiving image data including molecular diffusion of brain tissue, constructing a tree data structure from the image data, wherein the tree data structure comprises a plurality of network nodes, wherein each network node is connected to a root of the tree data structure, rendering a ring of a radial layout depicting the tree data structure, wherein a plurality of vertices may be traversed from the top to the bottom, duplicating at least one control point for spline edges sharing a common ancestor, and bundling spline edges by applying a global strength parameter β. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130110756 | Short-term Load Forecast Using Support Vector Regression and Feature Learning | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130110295 | ADVANCED HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR COLLABORATIVE BUILDING CONTROL | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130101187 | CORONARY ARTERY MOTION MODELING - A method for tracking coronary artery motion includes constructing ( | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130096414 | LOCALIZATION OF AORTA AND LEFT ATRIUM FROM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - The aorta and left atrium are localized from magnetic resonance data. The locations of the aorta and left atrium are detected jointly. The aorta and the left atrium are, at least in part, treated as one object. The detection may be from data representing a two-dimensional region. The two-dimensional region may be determined by first detecting the left ventricle from data representing a volume. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130094745 | NON-RIGID 2D/3D REGISTRATION OF CORONARY ARTERY MODELS WITH LIVE FLUOROSCOPY IMAGES - A method for non-rigid registration of digital 3D coronary artery models with 2D fluoroscopic images during a cardiac intervention includes providing a digitized 3D centerline representation of a coronary artery tree that comprises a set of S segments composed of Q | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130094725 | Reproducible Segmentation of Elliptical Boundaries in Medical Imaging - A boundary in a medical image is segmented. To increase reproducibility, a multi-level segmentation approach is used. A boundary is detected based on a seed point. The boundary is used to construct a banded graph. Local segmentation is performed using the banded graph. Based on the local segmentation, a new seed point is found. The local segmentation identifies a consistent location for the seed point. The boundary detection is performed again using the new seed point. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130091432 | METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR FORENSIC VIDEO SEARCH - A forensic video search user interface is disclosed that accesses databases of stored video event metadata from multiple camera streams and facilitates the workflow of search of complex global events that are composed of a number of simpler, low complexity events. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130090777 | ADAPTIVE DEMAND RESPONSE BASED ON DISTRIBUTED LOAD CONTROL - Adaptive demand response based on distributed load control may be provided. A demand response request indicative of a demand response event for an area may be received. A maximum power consumption for the area during the demand response event may be determined based on the demand response request. One or more set points for the area during the demand response event may be determined prior to the demand response event. The one or more set points are determined based on the maximum power consumption. Prior to or during the demand response event, a real-time power consumption for the area may be calculated. When the real-time power consumption exceeds the maximum power consumption, one or more loads in the area may be controlled to maintain the real-time power consumption at or below the maximum power consumption. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130088587 | HOUGH TRANSFORM APPROACH TO GAP MEASUREMENT IN BLADE INSPECTION - Two adjacent objects with a gap between the objects rotate in a hot atmosphere with a temperature greater than 300 F in a gas turbine. Automatic and accurate contactless measurement of the gap is performed by taking images of the gap. An image, preferably an infra-red image is taken from the gap, a processor extracts the two edges from the image of the gap. The processor also determines a line through the pixels of an edge by applying a Hough transform on the pixels. The edges are substantially parallel. A line substantially perpendicular to the lines is also determined. Using the substantially parallel lines and the line substantially perpendicular to the substantially parallel lines the processor determines a width of the gap. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130085377 | LOCALIZATION OF A DEVICE FOR MR-GUIDED INTERVENTION - Localization of a coil is provided for magnetic resonance (MR)-guided intervention. A multi-scale decomposition and characteristic transitions in the power spectra for the coil are used to determine a distribution of likelihood of the coil being at each of various locations and/or to determine a confidence in the position determination. For example, the power spectra along each axis is used to generate a likelihood distribution of the location of the coil. The power spectra are decomposited at different scales. For each scale, the modulus maxima reflecting transitions in the power spectra are matched using various criteria. A likelihood is calculated for each of the matched candidates from characterizations of the matched candidates. The likelihood distribution is determined from a combination of the likelihoods from the various scales. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083988 | ACTIVE CATHETER RECONSTRUCTION FOR INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - A method for device visualization includes receiving a set of physical characteristics including a description of spatial relationships of a plurality of markers within a device. Radiographic data of the device within a subject is acquired. An approximate location of each of the plurality of markers is identified within the radiographic data. A trajectory function is constructed for the device within the subject based on the identified approximate locations of each of the markers and the received set of physical characteristics. A section function is constructed for the device based on the set of physical characteristics and a 3D model is generated for the device based on the constructed trajectory function and the section function. A rendering of the 3D model is displayed on a display device. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083980 | LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING OF CRYO-BALLOON DURING INTERVENTIONAL FLUOROSCOPY IMAGING - A method for the detection of a balloon catheter within a fluoroscopic image, including: removing noise from a fluoroscopic image; detecting edges of a balloon catheter in the fluoroscopic image, wherein the detected edges include subsets of connected edges; extracting an edge subset from the subsets of connected edges; fitting a model to the extracted edge subset; removing outliers of the extracted edge subset based on the fitting of the model; adding the extracted edge subset without the outlier to a data set; repeating the extracting, fitting, removing and adding steps for the remainder of the subsets of connected edges; and fitting the model to the data set, wherein the data set is indicative of the balloon catheter. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130083187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDS FREE INSPECTION - Systems and methods for inspecting a device are disclosed. The method includes arranging the device in a known position relative to a plurality of movable cameras. The plurality of movable cameras is mounted on a controllable actuator. The plurality of cameras is pointed at the device by controlling the controllable actuator to position the camera with a user interface. An image of the device generated by the camera is displayed on a mobile and wireless display. The computing device also causes a rendered virtual image of the device to be displayed on the mobile and wireless display. A stream of interest and a region of interest is selected at the mobile and wireless display from the images generated by the cameras. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130077841 | Method and System for Automatic Rib Centerline Extraction Using Learning Base Deformable Template Matching - A method and system for extracting rib centerlines in a 3D volume, such as a 3D computed tomography (CT) volume, is disclosed. Rib centerline voxels are detected in the 3D volume using a learning based detector. Rib centerlines or the whole rib cage are then extracted by matching a template of rib centerlines for the whole rib cage to the 3D volume based on the detected rib centerline voxels. Each of the extracted rib centerlines are then individually refined using an active contour model. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077839 | Temporal Difference Encoding for Angiographic Image Sequences | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130076355 | Fast, Low Energy Deposition and Homogeneous T2 Weighted Variable Amplitude PSIF (T2 VAPSIF) Imaging in the Presence of B0inhomogeneities - A method for acquiring medical images, including: applying, during a first period, a plurality of radio frequency (RF) pulses to an area of interest, wherein the RF pulses applied during the first period are Kaiser-Bessel pulses; applying, during a second period, a plurality of 180 degree RF preparation pulses to the area; applying, during a third period, a plurality of 180 degree RF pulses to the area to acquire a center of a k-space; applying, during a fourth period, a plurality of RF pulses to the area, wherein the RF pulses applied during the fourth period have an angle smaller than the 180 degree RF pulses applied during the third period; applying, during a fifth period, a plurality of constant RF pulses to the area to acquire outer lines of the k-space; and generating an image of the area by using a steady-state free precession echo readout. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130073489 | HYBRID INTERIOR-POINT ALTERNATING DIRECTIONS ALGORITHM FOR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES AND FEATURE SELECTION - A method for training a classifier for selecting features in sparse data sets with high feature dimensionality includes providing a set of data items x and labels y, minimizing a functional of the data items x and associated labels y | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130072782 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE VOLUME COMPOSITION AND NORMALIZATION - A method and system for automatic magnetic resonance (MR) volume composition and normalization is disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of MR volumes is received. A composite MR volume is generated from the plurality of MR volumes. Volume normalization of the composite MR volume is then performed to correct intensity inhomogeneity in the composite MR volume. The volume normalization of the composite MR volume may be performed using template MR volume or without a template MR volume. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070996 | Method and System for Up-Vector Detection for Ribs in Computed Tomography Volumes - A method and system for up-vector detection for ribs in a 3D medical image volume, such as a computed tomography (CT) volume is disclosed. A rib centerline of at least one rib is extracted in a 3D medical image volume. An up-vector is automatically detected at each of a plurality of centerline points of the rib centerline of the at least one rib. The up-vector at each centerline point can be detected using a trained regression function. Alternatively, the up-vector at each centerline point can be detected by detecting an ellipse shape in a cross-sectional rib image generated at each centerline point. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070995 | 2D/3D IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130070967 | MOTION ANALYSIS THROUGH GEOMETRY CORRECTION AND WARPING - An object in a hot atmosphere with a temperature greater than 400 F in a gas turbine moves in a 3D space. The movement may include a vibrational movement. The movement includes a rotational movement about an axis and a translational movement along the axis. Images of the object are recorded with a camera, which may be a high-speed camera. The object s provided with a pattern that is tracked in images. Warpings of sub-patches in a reference image of the object are determined to form standard format warped areas. The warpings are applied piece-wise to areas in following images to create corrected images. Standard tracking such as SSD tracking is applied to the piece-wise corrected images to determine a movement of the object. The image correction and object tracking are performed by a processor. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130066870 | System for Generating a Medical Knowledge Base - A system generates medical knowledge base information by searching at least one repository of medical information to identify sentences including a received medical term. A data processor searches the identified sentences to identify sentences including a medical term different to the received term in response to a predetermined repository of medical terms and excludes sentences without a term different to the received term, to provide remaining multiple term sentences. The data processor groups different terms of individual sentences of the multiple term sentences to provide grouped terms, determines whether a medically valid relationship occurs between different terms of an individual group of terms of the grouped terms by using predetermined sentence structure and syntax rules and outputs data representing grouped terms having a medically valid relationship. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130064439 | Systems and Method for Automatic Prostate Localization in MR Images Using Random Walker Segmentation Initialized Via Boosted Classifiers - Automatic prostate localization in T2-weighted MR images facilitate labor-intensive cancer imaging techniques. Methods and systems to accurately segment the prostate gland in MR images are provided and address large variations in prostate anatomy and disease, intensity inhomogeneities, and artifacts induced by endorectal coils. A center of the prostate is automatically detected with a boosted classifier trained on intensity based multi-level Gaussian Mixture Model Expectation Maximization (GMM-EM) segmentations of the raw MR images. A shape model is used in conjunction with Multi-Label Random Walker (MLRW) to constrain the seeding process within MLRW. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130063436 | FLOATING VOLUME-OF-INTEREST IN MULTILAYER VOLUME RAY CASTING - A method that includes receiving vertices of a mesh, wherein the mesh represents a volume of interest (VOI) from an original volume, performing a transformation operation on the mesh, wherein the transformation operation transforms vertices of the mesh, obtaining sampling locations of the original volume using the transformed vertices, performing an inverse transformation on the transformed vertices of the mesh and the sampling locations, and performing a ray casting on the original volume to produce an image, wherein the ray casting uses the transformed vertices and a result of the inverse transformation as input. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130060554 | Network Traffic Profile Aggregation for Efficient Discrete Event Smart Grid Network Simulations - Systems and methods are provided for modeling and simulating a communication network operating under at least one communication protocol, which supports a Smart Grid electricity network. Communication performance data of the communication network are generated by a processor based on operating behavior of the Smart Grid with a plurality of assets under a first condition. Devices in the Smart grid are grouped in bins for rapid modeling. One or more different configurations of the communication network are entered into the processor and related performance data is also generated. Network configurations are compared based on the generated performance data which may include end-to-end delay and reception rate. Processor based systems to perform modeling methods are also provided. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060553 | SMART GRID COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT AND CO-SIMULATION TOOL - Systems and methods are provided for modeling and simulating a communication network operating under at least one communication protocol, which supports a Smart Grid electricity network. Communication performance data of the communication network are generated by a processor based on operating behavior of the Smart Grid with a plurality of assets under a first condition. Devices in the Smart grid are grouped in bins for rapid modeling. One or more different configurations of the communication network are entered into the processor and related performance data is also generated. Network configurations are compared based on the generated performance data which may include end-to-end delay and reception rate. Processor based systems to perform modeling methods are also provided. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060552 | Network Element Consolidation for Rapid Discrete Network Simulations - Systems and methods are provided for modeling and simulating a communication network operating under at least one communication protocol, which supports a Smart Grid electricity network. Communication performance data of the communication network are generated by a processor based on operating behavior of the Smart Grid with a plurality of assets under a first condition. Devices in the Smart grid are grouped in bins for rapid modeling. One or more different configurations of the communication network are entered into the processor and related performance data is also generated. Network configurations are compared based on the generated performance data which may include end-to-end delay and reception rate. Processor based systems to perform modeling methods are also provided. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060546 | VISUAL MODELING LANGUAGE FOR REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING - A method for generating a computer model representing constraints and desired functions for generating a product or service includes receiving user-selected items including requirements, features, dangers, goals, processes, stakeholders, or objects that are defined by a predetermined meta-model. A data element for each of the selected items received from the user is added to the computer model. A relationship is defined between the data element of the data elements and the defined relationships between the data elements are added to the computer model. The meta-model defines relationships between requirements and features, requirements and dangers, and requirements and goals. A graphical notation library defines a unique descriptive icon for each class of the selected items received from the user. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060524 | Machine Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis Incorporating Operational Data - A method for detecting an anomaly in a machine under test includes monitoring operational data from a control unit of the machine under test. An operational state of the machine under test is identified based on the monitored operational data. Sensor data is monitored from one or more sensors installed within or near to the machine under test. A model corresponding to the identified operational state of the machine under test is consulted to identify one or more key parameters and corresponding normal operating ranges for each determined key parameter. It is determined when a key parameter of the one or more key parameters is not within its corresponding normal operating range based on the monitored sensor data. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060132 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF CONTRAST INJECTION - A method for automatically detecting the presence of a contrast agent in an x-ray image includes acquiring a preliminary x-ray image. A background image is estimated. The contrast agent is administered. A plurality of image frames is acquired. The background image is subtracted from each image frame. An image having a highest image intensity is selected. A predefined shape model is fitted to the selected image using a semi-global optimization strategy. The fitting of the shape model is used to fit the shape model to each of the subtracted images. A feature value is calculated for each image frame based on pixel intensities of each pixel fitted to the shape model for the corresponding subtracted image. An image frame of peak contrast is determined by selecting the image frame with the greatest feature value. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130058555 | AUTOMATIC POSE INITIALIZATION FOR ACCURATE 2-D/3-D REGISTRATION APPLIED TO ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM ENDOVASCULAR REPAIR - A method for automatically initializing pose for registration of 2D fluoroscopic abdominal aortic images with a 3D model of an abdominal aorta includes detecting a 2D iliac bifurcation and a 2D renal artery bifurcation from a sequence of 2D fluoroscopic abdominal aortic images, detecting a spinal centerline in a 2D fluoroscopic spine image, providing a 3D iliac bifurcation and a 3D renal artery bifurcation from a 3D image volume of the patient's abdomen, and a 3D spinal centerline from the 3D image volume of the patient's abdomen, and determining pose parameters {x, y, z, θ}, where (x, y) denotes the translation on a table plane, z denotes a depth of the table, and θ is a rotation about the z axis, by minimizing a cost function of the 2D and 3D iliac bifurcations, the 2D and 3D renal artery bifurcation, and the 2D and 3D spinal centerlines. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057686 | CROWD SOURCING PARKING MANAGEMENT USING VEHICLES AS MOBILE SENSORS - Systems and methods for monitoring parking spots are disclosed. A system includes at least one vehicle and a remote computer that are in communication with each other. A vehicle includes a camera that generates image data, a location device that generates geographic coordinates of the vehicle, a computing device that receives the image data from the camera and the geographic coordinates of the vehicle and optionally data from a laser scanner that is calibrated with the camera and is connected to a smartphone that transmits data to the remote computer. Image data generated by the camera is processed with a reference image and data from the laser scanner to determine an occupation status of the parking spot. The occupation status is transmitted by the remote computer to a second vehicle. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130057569 | 2D-2D FUSION FOR INTERVENTIONAL GUIDANCE IN TRANS-CATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION - A method for fusing 2D fluoroscopic images with 2D angiographic images for real-time interventional procedure guidance includes using a 2-dimensional angiographic image to detect injection of a contrast agent into an anatomical structure, where the contrast agent first appears in a detected image frame, subtracting a background image from the detected image frame and binarizing the subtracted image frame to segment the anatomical structure from the subtracted image frame, registering the segmented anatomical structure with a predefined shape model of the anatomical structure to generate an anatomical mask, generating an anatomical probability map from the anatomical mask using intensity information from the subtracted image frame, where the anatomical probability map expresses a probability of a pixel in the subtracted image frame belonging to the anatomical structure, and fusing the angiographic image with one or more subsequently acquired 2-dimensional fluoroscopic images of the anatomical structure using the anatomical probability map. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130055196 | GENERATING PLC CODE FROM CAD MODELS - Product data management systems, methods, and mediums. A method includes receiving a functional model, and identifying a plurality of elements of the functional model. Each element corresponds to one or more machine operations. The method includes identifying concurrencies between elements to determine at least one set of elements. The method includes creating an execution thread for each of the sets of elements. The method can include generating a rule-based programmable logic controller (PLC) program corresponding to the functional model, based on the execution threads. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130053986 | BYZANTINE FAULT-TOLERANT SCADA SYSTEM - A system for automatically monitoring and controlling an infrastructure or process includes a plurality of remote clients installed along various portions of an industrial infrastructure or an infrastructure performing a process. Each of the remote clients collects data. A plurality of server replicas is in communication with the plurality of remote clients. The server replicas receive the collected data from the remote clients and process the received data. The plurality of remote clients and the plurality of server replicas communicate across an electronic network. The plurality of server replicas includes a state machine replication system that is tolerant of a failure of one or more of the server replicas. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130046759 | CONNECTING QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES TO RELEVANT ENTITIES - A method for brokering information includes receiving an initiator produced system activity, scoring a relevance of the system activity with each of a plurality of subscriber-specified thresholds, and transmitting an activity response to a subscriber activity feed in response to the system activity, the subscriber activity feed selected according to the relevance of a corresponding subscriber-specified threshold. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046668 | AGGREGATOR-BASED ELECTRIC MICROGRID FOR RESIDENTIAL APPLICATIONS INCORPORATING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES - A residential electric grid (microgrid) is proposed as a distribution arrangement between a utility company and a group of individual residential consumers. The residential consumers are also viewed as “producers” of renewable energy and are defined as “prosumers”. An aggregator is used at the microgrid to negotiate with the utility on behalf of the group of prosumers, commanding a better price for excess electricity sold back to the utility (especially as part of a Demand Response (DR) program). Importantly, the microgrid is constructed to include energy storage capability at the microgrid. Therefore, the arrangement is capable of supplying power to the residential customers in the event of an outage at the macrogrid level, and also selling back the electricity to the utility as part of a DR program. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046411 | Electric Vehicle Load Management - A distributed and collaborative load balancing method is disclosed that uses a utility's existing transmission and distribution system to charge an Electric Vehicle (EV) using load shifting over time and minimizes the overall cost of energy usage to charge EVs. The collaborative load balancing ensures grid reliability. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130038605 | SELECTIVE FLOW VISUALIZATION OF TRACED PARTICLES - A method for tracing a plurality of virtual particles through a flow filed includes receiving a flow field. A flow domain is divided into cells. Virtual particles are defined within the flow domain and values are collected for flow properties at each cell. A histogram is generated for each cell representing the collected flow properties for that corresponding cell. The histogram includes, for each of the one or more flow properties, a plurality of bins defining ranges of property values and a count of virtual particles within that cell that exhibit those properties. The histograms for the plurality of cells are advected with respect to the flow field over time. A graphical representation of the plurality of particles within the flow domain is rendered based on the advected histograms for the plurality of cells using a graphics processor. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130036323 | FAULT-TOLERANT REPLICATION ARCHITECTURE - A fault-tolerant replication system includes a first machine running a first hypervisor. A second machine is failure-independent of the first machine. The second machine runs a second hypervisor. A first plurality of virtual machines runs on the first hypervisor. A second plurality of virtual machines runs on the second hypervisor. Each of the virtual machines of the first and second plurality of virtual machines constitutes either a virtual machine replica server of a fault-tolerant replicated state machine or a backup corresponding to a virtual machine replica server of the fault-tolerant replicated state machine. Every backup is embodied on a different machine, of the first and second machines, from its corresponding virtual machine replica server. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130035885 | TOPOLOGY IDENTIFICATION IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORK WITH LIMITED MEASUREMENTS - A statistical technique is used to estimate the status of switching devices (such as circuit breakers, isolator switches and fuses) in distribution networks, using scares (i.e., limited or non-redundant) measurements. Using expected values of power consumption, and their variance, the confidence level of identifying the correct topology, or the current status of switching devices, is calculated using any given configuration of real time measurements. Different topologies are then compared in order to select the most likely topology at the prevailing time. The measurements are assumed as normally distributed random variables, and the maximum likelihood principle or a support vector machine is applied. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130035799 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT COLLABORATIVE HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDING CONTROL - A method and system for enabling facility managers and occupants of commercial buildings to collaboratively define energy policy for building energy control is disclosed. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130035596 | MODEL-BASED POSITIONING FOR INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY VOLUME STITCHING - Different intracardiac echocardiography volumes are stitched together. Different volumes of a patient are scanned with ICE. To stitch the volumes together, creating a larger volume, the volumes are spatially aligned. The alignment is based on feature, surface, or both feature and surface matching of the ICE volumes with a preoperative model of the same patient. The matching with the model indicates a relative position of the ICE volumes with each other. Using machine-trained classifiers may speed performance, allowing for real-time assembling of a volume from ICE data as the catheter is moved within the patient. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130035588 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FOR THERAPY PLANNING - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used for therapy planning. The motion or position of the treatment region is tracked over time for many cycles using MRI. For temporal resolution, the tracking is done in planes through the tumor at different orientations rather than using three-dimensional scanning. The tracking may be used for calculating a spatial probability density function for the target. Alternatively or additionally, spatiotemporal information derived from the surrogate is compared directly to that from the tracked object to determine the accuracy or robustness of the surrogate-to-target 3D correlation Gating or tracking based on this surrogate may be performed where the comparison indicates that the surrogate is sufficiently reliable (accurate). | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130034289 | FILTER APPROACH TO CATHETER ELECTRODE DETECTION AND TRACKING - A method including receiving a first two-dimensional (2D) image; and applying a filter to the 2D image to produce a filtered image that identifies a circular object of interest, wherein the filter is based on the integral sum of the function S, where the filter output at point x is | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130027037 | SELF CONSISTENT PARALLEL IMAGING WITH TEMPORAL SENSITIVITY ESTIMATION IN REAL-TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - Parallel imaging magnetic resonance reconstruction is performed with temporal sensitivity. Rather than estimate the coil sensitivity once for each coil of an array, the coil sensitivity at different times is estimated. The movement of the patient may result in different sensitivities at different times. By using the time varying sensitivity in iterative, self-consistent, non-linear parallel imaging, real-time imaging may be provided with stable artifacts in view of increasing SNR even with higher reduction factors (e.g., 4-6). | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130025544 | Methods and Systems to Dissuade Animals From An Area - Systems and methods for generating a laser beam illuminating a space around an object are provided. The laser beam illuminates an animal that is approaching the object in the space. The laser beam is generated by a laser illuminating at least a first micro-mirror that moves under control of a processor. Additional micro-mirrors are contemplated. The laser beam reflected from the moving micro-mirror illuminates the space around the object. Laser, processor and micro-mirrors are dimensioned to illuminate with a high probability an area with a cross-section perpendicular to a laser beam of 10 cm by 10 cm inside the space at a distance of up to 200 meters from the laser or farther. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130011030 | Method and System for Device Detection in 2D Medical Images - A method and system for device detection in a 2D medical image is disclosed. In order to account for shape variation of a 3D object in a 2D imaging plane, a hierarchical tree-structured array of trained classifiers is used to detect a 3D object, such as a pigtail catheter in a 2D medical image, such as a fluoroscopic image. The hierarchical tree-structured array of trained classifiers increases a dimensionality of the search space with each hierarchical level, and as the search space is increased, the classification is split into object sub-classes using trained classifiers independently trained for each sub-class. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20120330628 | Boundary Handling for Particle-Based Simulation - Boundary handling is performed in particle-based simulation. Slab cut ball processing defines the boundary volumes for interaction with particles in particle-based simulation. The slab cut balls are used for collision detection of a solid object with particles. The solid object may be divided into a plurality of independent slab cut balls for efficient collision detection without a bounding volume hierarchy. The division of the solid object may be handled in repeating binary division operations. Processing speed may be further increased by determining the orientation of each slab cut ball based on the enclosed parts of the boundary rather than testing multiple possible orientations. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120323547 | METHOD FOR INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM ANALYSIS AND ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTION PLANNING | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120321174 | Image Processing Using Random Forest Classifiers - A method of performing image retrieval includes training a random forest RF classifier based on low-level features of training images and a high-level feature, using similarity values generated by the RF classifier to determine a subset of the training images that are most similar to one another, and classifying input images for the high-level feature using the RF classifier and the determined subset of images. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120321169 | Shape Based Conditional Random Fields for Segmenting Intracranial Aneurysms - A method for segmenting intracranial aneurysms in digital medical images includes extracting a mesh representing a vessel surface from a volumetric digital image, the mesh comprising a set of points {p | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120314949 | System and Method for Image Segmentation by Optimizing Weighted Curvature - A method for segmenting an object in a digital image includes computing, for each point v | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120310699 | APPROACH AND TOOL BLENDING AD-HOC AND FORMAL WORKFLOW MODELS IN SUPPORT OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDER NEEDS - A flexible project management workflow uses a flexible process model that supports structured, unstructured and semi-structured workflow execution. The model combines formal models with data triggers and spontaneously triggered action items that may be added ad hoc by approvers or actors involved in the workflow. The model makes use of Web-based implementation, automatic tracking of data evolution and e-mail notifications as usability components. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120297364 | AUGMENTED DESIGN STRUCTURE MATRIX VISUALIZATIONS FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEM ANALYSIS - A design matrix structure visualization technique and tool for the study and analysis of systems, such as software systems, where the bounds of the matrix are defined by a selected focusing metric and entities forming the system are displayed in the matrix as blocks of size relative to their proportion of the selected focusing metric. Relationships between entities are illustrated by summing all relationships between individual elements forming each displayed entity. Where possible, an identifier defining the characteristic of a displayed block is also shown. Preferably, the technique and tool includes a “zoom” feature to allow a user to drill down and uncover details associated with smaller blocks as shown in the original view. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120296202 | Method and System for Registration of Ultrasound and Physiological Models to X-ray Fluoroscopic Images - A method and system for registering ultrasound images and physiological models to x-ray fluoroscopy images is disclosed. A fluoroscopic image and an ultrasound image, such as a Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) image, are received. A 2D location of an ultrasound probe is detected in the fluoroscopic image. A 3D pose of the ultrasound probe is estimated based on the detected 2D location of the ultrasound probe in the fluoroscopic image. The ultrasound image is mapped to a 3D coordinate system of a fluoroscopic image acquisition device used to acquire the fluoroscopic image based on the estimated 3D pose of the ultrasound probe. The ultrasound image can then be projected into the fluoroscopic image using a projection matrix associated with the fluoroscopic image. A patient specific physiological model can be detected in the ultrasound image and projected into the fluoroscopic image. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120286974 | Hit and Run Prevention and Documentation System for Vehicles - Systems and methods provide a vehicle hit-and-run prevention and documentation method and system that warn approaching vehicles that pose a collision threat and document the occurrence of a collision. Embodiments use vehicle proximity sensors in conjunction with vehicle video cameras to detect an approaching object, determine the likelihood of collision and if likely, record video data. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120284002 | Simplified Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics - For efficient smooth particle hydrodynamics using more particle information, virtual particles are created. Each virtual particle represents an averaging of properties for the fluid particles in a cell. For density, force, or other calculations for a given fluid particle, the interaction between the particles within a cell are calculated. For calculating the influence of particles outside the cell on the particle in the cell, the virtual particles from the neighboring cells are used. The interaction with these aggregate particles reduces the number of calculations while still including the influence from particles of other cells. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120275271 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BLIND LOCALIZATION OF CORRELATED SOURCES - A system and a method for a blind direction of arrival estimation is provided for a nonlinear 1-dimensional array of M receivers of J| 11-01-2012 | |
| 20120274781 | MARGINAL SPACE LEARNING FOR MULTI-PERSON TRACKING OVER MEGA PIXEL IMAGERY - A method for tracking pedestrians in a video sequence, where each image frame of the video sequence corresponds to a time step, includes using marginal space learning to sample a prior probability distribution p(x | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120271162 | Constrained Registration for Motion Compensation in Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Procedures - A method for model based motion tracking of a catheter during an ablation procedure includes receiving a training series of biplanar fluoroscopic images of a catheter acquired under conditions that will be present during an ablation procedure, segmenting and processing the series of biplanar images to produce a distance transform image for each biplanar image at each acquisition time, minimizing, for each pair of biplanar images at each acquisition time, a cost function of the distance transform image for each pair of biplanar images to yield a translation parameter that provides a best fit for a model of the catheter to each pair of biplanar images at each acquisition time, and calculating an updated catheter model for each acquisition time from said translation parameter. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120268450 | Automated Detection of Airway and Vessel Orientations for Quantitative Analysis and Visualization - A method including displaying a three-dimensional (3D) image of a lung, receiving a selection of an airway of the lung and displaying a two-dimensional (2D) cross-section image of the airway perpendicular to the airway's long axis, wherein the display of the 2D cross-section image occurs almost immediately after the selection of the airway is received. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120260239 | PARALLELIZATION OF PLC PROGRAMS FOR OPERATION IN MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENTS - A method of identifying and extracting functional parallelism from a PLC program has been developed that results in the ability of the extracted program fragments to be executed in parallel across a plurality of separate resources, and a compiler configured to perform the functional parallelism (i.e., identification and extraction processes) and perform the scheduling of the separate fragments within a given set of resources. The inventive functional parallelism creates a larger number of separable elements than was possible with prior dataflow analysis methodologies. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259885 | META-DATA APPROACH TO QUERYING MULTIPLE BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES - A method for retrieving information spread across a plurality of different ontologies, including: defining a meta-ontology, wherein the meta-ontology includes high-level properties and their mappings to specific properties defined in a plurality of different ontologies; receiving a question, wherein the question is associated with a high-level property; and providing an answer to the question, wherein the answer is determined by using the meta-ontology. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120254412 | REPLICATED STATE MACHINE UTILIZING VIEW CHANGE PROTOCOL RESILIENT TO PERFORMANCE ATTACKS - A network of replicated servers providing a service includes a plurality of server replicas. A leader is elected from among the plurality of server replicas for coordinating ordering of operations among the plurality of server replicas. A view change protocol is executed by the plurality of server replicas after the election of the leader. Each iteration of the view change protocol corresponds to a unique view number. The server replicas are directed by the view change protocol to cooperate to order operations by exchange of information associated with particular view numbers. The information is prioritized in accordance with the view numbers. The non-leaders monitor the response time of the leader and elect a new leader when it is determined that the monitored length of time is greater than a threshold value that is dependent upon current network conditions. | 10-04-2012 |
