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20110080402 | Method of Localizing Landmark Points in Images - A method of localizing landmark points and fitting appearance based models to image data. Image products are computed efficiently which improves the computational cost and improves performance of fitting algorithms for such models. | 04-07-2011 |
20110081074 | Method of Computing Global-to-Local Metrics for Recognition - A method of computing global-to-local metrics for recognition. Based on training examples with feature representations, the method automatically computes a local metric that varies over the space of feature representations to optimize discrimination and the performance of recognition systems. | 04-07-2011 |
20130346068 | Voice-Based Image Tagging and Searching - The electronic device with one or more processors and memory provides a digital photograph of a real-world scene. The electronic device provides a natural language text string corresponding to a speech input associated with the digital photograph. The electronic device performs natural language processing on the text string to identify one or more terms associated with an entity, an activity, or a location. The electronic device tags the digital photograph with the one or more terms and their associated entity, activity, or location. | 12-26-2013 |
20140218353 | IMAGE GROUP PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION - Techniques are provided for efficiently generating 3D information from a set of digital images. Techniques are also provided for displaying groups (or clusters) of digital images using 3D information associated with the digital images. In one technique, a group of digital images are displayed as a stack of thumbnail images where the thumbnail images are aligned on a display with respect to each other based on common features identified in the digital images, camera position, and/or camera pose. In another technique, a group of digital images are organized on a display in either a 3D layout or a 2D layout based on 3D information associated with each digital image in the group. In another technique, a transition effect is generated based on projections of two digital images onto a common scene plane and blending (or cross fading) one of the 3D projections with the other of the 3D projections. | 08-07-2014 |
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20110077733 | LEAFLET CONTACTING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A prosthesis can include a leaflet contacting member and an anchoring member. The leaflet contacting member can have an outer surface and an aperture that extends through at least a portion of the leaflet contacting member. The outer surface of the leaflet contacting member can be configured to contact one or more leaflets of the heart valve during coaptation of the leaflets, and the contact of the leaflets with the outer surface can prevent the leaflets from contacting one or more wires that extend through the aperture of the leaflet contacting member. | 03-31-2011 |
20120245678 | Device And A Method For Augmenting Heart Function - A device, a kit and a method are presented for permanently augmenting the pump function of the left heart. The basis for the presented innovation is an augmentation of the physiologically up and down movement of the mitral valve during each heart cycle. By means of catheter technique, minimal surgery, or open heart surgery implants are inserted into the left ventricle, the mitral valve annulus, the left atrium and adjacent tissue in order to augment the natural up and down movement of the mitral valve and thereby increasing the left ventricular diastolic filling and the piston effect of the closed mitral valve when moving towards the apex of said heart in systole and/or away from said apex in diastole. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245679 | Device, A Kit And A Method For Heart Support - A device, a kit and a method is presented for permanently augmenting the pump function of the left heart. The mitral valve plane is assisted in a movement along the left ventricular long axis during each heart cycle. The very close relationship between the coronary sinus and the mitral valve is used by various embodiments of a medical device providing this assisted movement. By means of catheter technique an implant is inserted into the coronary sinus, the device is augmenting the up and down movement of the mitral valve and thereby increasing the left ventricular diastolic filling when moving upwards and the piston effect of the closed mitral valve when moving downwards. | 09-27-2012 |
20120283813 | Tissue Penetration Device And Method - A medical device for canalization of a tissue comprises a radially expandable and crimpable or collapsible substantially tubular member that has a rear end, a front end, and a pattern of struts or a mesh of wires arranged in-between the rear end and the front end, arranged around an interior of the device. The tubular member has extensions, which are arranged towards the interior of the device in a first state of the device, and towards an exterior of the medical device in a second state of the device, wherein the second state of the medical device is the tubular member turned inside out. During storage, the device is restrained in a delivery catheter in the second state. During delivery the device turns outside in and digs into the tissue to create a channel therein, thus preventing or fixating debris or other matter to spread from the channel. | 11-08-2012 |
20130211317 | Device, A Kit And A Method For Treatment Of Disorders In The Heart Rhythm Regulation System - A tissue lesion creating device is structured and arranged to be inserted through the vascular system into a body vessel adjacent the heart and to be subsequently subjected to a change of shape in order to penetrate into the heart tissue. The tissue lesion creating device may thus be used for treating disorders to the heart rhythm regulation system. A kit of devices provides a plurality of devices for creating a lesion pattern for treating such disorders. | 08-15-2013 |
20130226070 | Device And Kit For Treatment Of Disorders In The Heart Rhythm Regulation System - A tissue cutting device is disclosed, which is structured and arranged to be inserted through the vascular system into a body vessel adjacent to the heart and/or into the heart, and to be subsequently subjected to a change of shape in order to penetrate into the heart tissue. The tissue cutting device may thus be used for treating disorders to the heart rhythm regulation system. A kit of devices provides a plurality of devices for creating a lesion pattern for treating such disorders. | 08-29-2013 |
20130289717 | Device And A Method For Augmenting Heart Function - A device, a kit and a method are presented for permanently augmenting the pump function of the left heart. The basis for the presented innovation is an augmentation of the physiologically up and down movement of the mitral valve during each heart cycle. By means of catheter technique, minimal surgery, or open heart surgery implants are inserted into the left ventricle, the mitral valve annulus, the left atrium and adjacent tissue in order to augment the natural up and down movement of the mitral valve and thereby increasing the left ventricular diastolic filling and the piston effect of the closed mitral valve when moving towards the apex of said heart in systole and/or away from said apex in diastole. | 10-31-2013 |
20140163609 | Collapsible Medical Closing Device, A Method And A Medical System For Delivering An Object - The disclosure is related to the sealing of an opening in a body, e.g. a blood vessel or a human heart. In particular the disclosure relates to a collapsible medical closing device, a method and a medical system for delivering an object. Furthermore, the disclosure provides positioning of an object and sealing a gap of an opening in a body with one single piece of equipment. In one embodiment, a collapsible medical closing device ( | 06-12-2014 |
20140171853 | Device And Kit For Treatment Of Disorders In The Heart Rhythm Regulation System - A tissue cutting device is disclosed, which is structured and arranged to be inserted through the vascular system into a body vessel adjacent to the heart and/or into the heart, and to be subsequently subjected to a change of shape in order to penetrate into the heart tissue. The tissue cutting device may thus be used for treating disorders to the heart rhythm regulation system. A kit of devices provides a plurality of devices for creating a lesion pattern for treating such disorders. | 06-19-2014 |
20140343590 | Device, And A Method For Treatment Of Increased Blood Pressure - Methods and devices are presented which act by cutting the renal nerves slowly through. The minimally invasive implantable devices can be delivered through state of the art delivery catheters into the renal arteries as known from stenting, and do not require external generators, thereby being easily to introduce in normal equipped radiology catheter labs. | 11-20-2014 |
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20110040502 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR MONITORING FLOW CIRCUITS - A device is provided for monitoring the integrity of a flow circuit in fluid communication with a receptacle. The flow circuit comprises a pumping device for transferring fluid through the flow circuit. The device operates according to a monitoring method in which a pressure signal is received from a pressure sensor, the pressure signal being indicative of fluid pressure in the receptacle or the flow circuit. The pressure signal is then processed for detection of a beating signal. The beating signal manifests itself as an amplitude modulation of the pressure signal and is formed by interference between pressure waves generated by a pulse generator associated with the receptacle and pressure waves generated by the pumping device. The integrity of the flow circuit is determined based at least partly on the presence or absence of the beating signal. The device and the flow circuit may be part of an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, and the method may be implemented as a computer program product. | 02-17-2011 |
20110106466 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MONITORING THE INTEGRITY OF A FLUID CONNECTION - A surveillance device monitors the integrity of a fluid connection between first and second fluid containing systems based on at least one time-dependent measurement signal from a pressure sensor in the first fluid containing system. The first fluid containing system comprises a first pulse generator, and the second fluid containing system comprises a second pulse generator. The pressure sensor is arranged to detect first pulses originating from the first pulse generator and second pulses originating from the second pulse generator. The integrity of the fluid connection is determined based on the presence of second pulses in the measurement signal. The second pulses may be detected by analysing the measurement signal in the time domain and/or by using timing information indicative of the timing of the second pulses in said at least one measurement signal. The analysis may be based on a parameter value that represents a distribution of signal values within a time window of the measurement signal. The parameter value may be calculated as a statistical dispersion measure of the signal values, or may result from a matching of the signal values within the time window to a predicted temporal signal profile of a second pulse. The fluid connection may be established between a human blood system and an extracorporeal blood flow circuit. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112595 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A TIME-DEPENDENT MEASUREMENT SIGNAL - A monitoring device is arranged to receive a time-dependent measurement signal from a pressure sensor in a fluid containing system, which is associated with a first pulse generator and a second pulse generator. The pressure sensor is arranged in the fluid containing system to detect a first pulse originating from the first pulse generator and a second pulse originating from the second pulse generator. The monitoring device is configured to process the measurement signal to remove the first pulse. In this process, the monitoring device receives the measurement signal, obtains a first pulse profile which is a predicted temporal signal profile of the first pulse, and filters the measurement signal in the time-domain, using the first pulse profile, to essentially eliminate the first pulse while retaining the second pulse. The fluid containing system may include an extracorporeal blood flow circuit and a blood circuit of a human patient. | 05-12-2011 |
20120283581 | DEVICES, A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND A METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION - A monitoring device receives a measurement signal obtained by a pressure sensor in an extracorporeal fluid system, such as an extracorporeal blood circuit for a dialysis machine which is in contact with a vascular system of a subject via a fluid connection. The monitoring device processes the measurement signal to identify pressure data that represents pulses originating from a first physiological phenomenon in the subject, excluding the heart of the subject. The first physiological phenomenon may be any of reflexes, voluntary muscle contractions, non-voluntary muscle contractions, a breathing system of the subject, an autonomous system of the subject for blood pressure regulation, or an autonomous system of the subject for body temperature regulation. The monitoring device may detect, present, track or predict a disordered condition of the subject using the pressure data, or monitor the integrity of the fluid connection based on the pressure data. | 11-08-2012 |
20130006128 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RAPID SYMPTOMATIC BLOOD PRESSURE DECREASE - A monitoring device is included in a medical system to implement a method for prediction of a rapid symptomatic drop in a subject's blood pressure, e.g. during a medical treatment such as dialysis. To this aim, a pulse shape parameter (pPS) with respect to a pulse generator of the subject is registered by means of a pressure sensor arranged in an extracorporeal blood flow circuit coupled to a cardiovascular system of the subject (P). The pressure sensor is configured to detect pressure variations in blood vessels of the subject (P). It is investigated, during measurement period, whether or not one or more of the pulse shape parameters fulfil a decision criterion. An output signal (a) is generated if the decision criterion is found to be fulfilled, to indicate a predicted rapid symptomatic blood pressure decrease in the subject (P). The decision criterion may operate on pulse magnitude measures calculated for the received pulse shape parameters (pPS), or statistical dispersion measures calculated based on the thus-calculated pulse magnitude measures. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006130 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A FLUID FLOW RATE IN A CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM - A device in an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment is configured to monitor a fluid flow rate (Q) of a cardiovascular system of a subject. The apparatus comprises an extracorporeal blood circuit and a connection (C) for connecting the extracorporeal blood circuit to the cardiovascular system. The device comprises an input for obtaining a time-dependent measurement signal (d(n)) from a pressure sensor in the extracorporeal blood circuit. The pressure sensor is arranged to detect a subject pulse originating from a subject pulse generator in the cardiovascular system of the subject, wherein the system further comprises a signal processor connected to the input. The signal processor is configured to process the measurement signal to obtain a pulse profile (e(n)) which is a temporal signal profile of the subject pulse, and to calculate a fluid flow rate (Q) based at least partly on the temporal signal profile. | 01-03-2013 |
20130023776 | MONITORING A PROPERTY OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM OF A SUBJECT - A device is configured to monitor a cardiovascular property of a subject. The device obtains measurement data from a primary pressure wave sensor arranged to detect pressure waves in an extracorporeal fluid circuit in fluid communication with the cardiovascular system of the subject. The device has a signal processor configured to generate a time-dependent monitoring signal based on the measurement data, such that the monitoring signal comprises a sequence of heart pulses, wherein each heart pulse represents a pressure wave originating from a heart beat in the subject; determine beat classification data for each heart pulse in the monitoring signal; and calculate, based at least partly on the beat classification data, a parameter value indicative of the cardiovascular property. The beat classification data may distinguish between heart pulses originating from normal heart beats and heart pulses originating from ectopic heart beats. The cardiovascular property may be an arterial status of the cardiovascular system, a degree of calcification in the cardiovascular system, a status of a blood vessel access used for connecting the extracorporeal fluid circuit to the cardiovascular system, a heart rate variability, a heart rate, a heart rate turbulence, an ectopic beat count, or an origin of ectopic beats. The device may be attached to or part of a dialysis machine. | 01-24-2013 |
20130096402 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RAPID SYMPTOMATIC BLOOD PRESSURE DECREASE - A monitoring arrangement | 04-18-2013 |
20130116587 | DETECTION OF DRASTIC BLOOD PRESSURE CHANGES - A cardiac-activity based prediction of a rapid drop in a patient's blood pressure during extracorporeal blood treatment is disclosed. A proposed alarm apparatus includes a primary beat morphology analysis unit bank of secondary analysis units and an alarm generating unit. The primary beat morphology analysis unit discriminates heart beats in a received basic electrocardiogram signal, classifies each beat into one out of at least two different beat categories, and associates each segment of the signal with relevant event-type data. The event-type data and the basic electrocardiogram signal together form an enhanced electrocardiogram signal, based upon which the primary beat morphology analysis unit determines whether one or more secondary signal analyses should be performed. Depending on the enhanced electrocardiogram signal's properties, the bank of secondary analysis units performs none, one or more of up to at least two different types of secondary analyses, and for each analysis performed produces a respective test signal. The alarm generating unit receives the test signals, and triggers an alarm signal indicative of an estimated rapid blood pressure decrease, if at least one alarm criterion is fulfilled. | 05-09-2013 |
20130150766 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A CONFIGURATION OF WITHDRAWAL AND RETURN DEVICES - A device is arranged to detect a configuration of withdrawal and return devices ( | 06-13-2013 |
20130172803 | CONTROLLING AN APPARATUS FOR FLUID TRANSFER TO AND/OR FROM A SUBJECT - A control system ( | 07-04-2013 |
20130204174 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A FAULT CONDITION - A device is configured to detect a fault condition in a fluid connection system between a first (e.g. extracorporeal blood circuit) and second (e.g. vascular system of a patient) fluid containing systems. The first and second fluid containing systems comprise a first and second pulse generator, respectively. A pressure sensor is arranged in the first fluid containing system to detect pulses originating from the first and second pulse generator. The device operates according to a detection method, by generating a time-dependent monitoring signal based on measurement data obtained from said at least one pressure sensor, such that the monitoring signal at least comprises one or more first pulses; processing ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130204542 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE INTEGRITY OF A CONNECTION SYSTEM - A device is configured to monitor the integrity of a connection system between first and second fluid containing systems comprising first and second pulse generators. A pressure sensor is arranged in the first fluid containing system to detect first pulses originating from the first pulse generator and second pulses originating from the second pulse generator. The device operates a monitoring method, by generating ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130274570 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RAPID SYMPTOMATIC BLOOD PRESSURE DECREASE - A monitoring arrangement | 10-17-2013 |
20140231319 | FILTERING OF A TIME-DEPENDENT PRESSURE SIGNAL - A device removes first pulses in a pressure signal of a pressure sensor which is arranged in a fluid containing system to detect the first pulses, which originate from a first pulse generator, and second pulses, which originate from a second pulse generator. The first pulse generator operates in a sequence of pulse cycles, each pulse cycle resulting in at least one first pulse. The device repetitively obtains a current data sample, calculates a corresponding reference value and subtracts the reference value from the current data sample. The reference value is calculated as a function of other data sample(s) in the same pressure signal. The fluid containing system may include an extracorporeal blood flow circuit, e.g. as part of a dialysis machine, and a cardiovascular system of a human patient. | 08-21-2014 |
20140298891 | DETECTING BLOOD PATH DISRUPTION IN EXTRACORPREAL BLOOD PROCESSING - A device monitors a blood path from a blood vessel access of a human subject through an extracorporeal blood processing apparatus and back to the blood vessel access. A pumping device in the blood path is operable to pump blood through the blood path from the blood withdrawal device to the blood return device. The monitoring device obtains pressure data from a pressure sensor arranged upstream of the pumping device in the blood path, and processes the pressure data for detection of a disruption of the blood path downstream of the pumping device, e.g. caused by VND (Venous Needle Dislodgement). The disruption is detected by evaluating presence/absence of cross-talk pulses at the pressure sensor, where the cross-talk pulses originate from one or more pulse generators in the extracorporeal blood processing apparatus and have propagated on a propagation path in a direction downstream of the pumping device through the blood return device, the blood vessel access and the blood withdrawal device to the pressure sensor. | 10-09-2014 |
20150019170 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A TIME-DEPENDENT MEASUREMENT SIGNAL - A monitoring device is arranged to receive a time-dependent measurement signal from a pressure sensor in a fluid containing system, which is associated with a first pulse generator and a second pulse generator. The pressure sensor is arranged in the fluid containing system to detect a first pulse originating from the first pulse generator and a second pulse originating from the second pulse generator. The monitoring device is configured to process the measurement signal to remove the first pulse. In this process, the monitoring device receives the measurement signal, obtains a first pulse profile which is a predicted temporal signal profile of the first pulse, and filters the measurement signal in the time-domain, using the first pulse profile, to essentially eliminate the first pulse while retaining the second pulse. The fluid containing system may include an extracorporeal blood flow circuit and a blood circuit of a human patient. | 01-15-2015 |