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A display forms part of a set of at least two displays. The displays of the set are for connection to a common image supplying apparatus. The display comprises a rewritable memory storing position data indicating a position of the display relative to the other displays of the set and orientation data indicating an orientation of the display. In this way, information stored at the display can be used to configure an image supplying apparatus to supply image data which is appropriate for the positions and orientations of the multiple displays.

A mechanism for producing three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) images representing a target volume of a subject (e.g., a patient). Specifically, the proposed method applies to target volumes that are associated with a quasi-periodic motion, e.g., the heart. Said quasi-periodic motion is characterized by a regular, repetitive and/or rhythmic motion of the target volume that may not have a consistent frequency and/or period (e.g., where said frequency and/or period varies with time).

A computer-implemented method of image viewing and/or processing within an image viewing and/or processing environment, comprising the following steps:- obtaining screen capture content of at least part of an image display of the first processing application, wherein the image display is based on image data at least partially loaded into the first processing application;- automatically attempting to retrieve window characteristic information from the screen capture content based on at least one screen location of window characteristic information from the library of screen locations;- classifying the screen capture content:- as recognizable if window characteristic information can be retrieved;- as non-recognizable if the library of screen locations currently does not contain any screen locations and/or if no window characteristic information can be retrieved;- in case the screen capture content is classified as recognizable:- providing the window characteristic information to the second processing application;- synchronizing the window of the second processing application based on the received window characteristic information of the first processing application;in case the screen capture content is classified as non-recognizable:- performing a learning process to determine at least one screen location of window characteristic information on the image display based on changes happening over time on the image display and/or based on user input and storing the at least one screen location of window characteristic information in the library of screen locations.

Proposed concepts thus aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods and systems pertaining to generating a synthetic data signal. In particular, embodiments aim to provide a method for generating a synthetic data signal by first modifying a data signal (to be input into a trained generative network) by adding error-correction information to the data signal. The modified data signal (i.e., the data signal with the added error-correction information) is then input into the trained generative network to generate a synthetic data signal. The added error-correction information allows errors to be corrected during subsequent reconstruction of the data signal from the synthetic data signal.

An acoustic sensing system is provided for monitoring sounds including sounds from a subject's airway. An acoustic sensor generates an acoustic signal, and a pressure or flow sensor generates a pressure or flow signal relating to the subject's airway. The acoustic signal and the pressure or flow signal are processed to identify secretions. In one aspect, the acoustic signal is processed to filter out sounds associated with the secretions. In another aspect, for each identified secretion, a type is identified from a plurality of different secretion types.

According to an aspect, there is provided a treatment device (2; 30; 60; 130) for performing light-based treatment operations on or to a subject. The treatment device (2; 30; 60; 130) comprises a light source (12) for generating light for performing the treatment operation; a dichroic filter (34; 64; 104; 134) arranged at a first angle with respect to the incident light such that the incident light is separated into a transmitted light component and a reflected light component according to a cut-off wavelength of the dichroic filter (34; 64; 104; 134), wherein the transmitted light component is transmitted through the dichroic filter (34; 64; 104; 134) and the reflected light component is reflected by the dichroic filter (34; 64; 104; 134); a light exit window (10) through which a light component is emitted from the treatment device (2; 30; 60; 130); a beam dump (44; 74; 140) configured to absorb a light component; and a heat sink (46; 76; 142) coupled to the beam dump (44; 74; 140) to dissipate heat from the beam dump (44; 74; 140). The light exit window (10) and beam dump (44; 74; 140) are arranged with respect to the dichroic filter (34; 64; 104; 134) such that one of the transmitted light component and the reflected light component is emitted from the treatment device (2; 30; 60; 130) via the light exit window (10) and the other one of the transmitted light component and reflected light component is incident on the beam dump (44; 74; 140). The dichroic filter (34; 64; 104; 134) is provided on a first surface of a solid dichroic prism (38; 68) or an internal surface in a solid dichroic cuboid.

An apparatus is arranged to generate a data signal comprising compressed data for a biomedical waveform signal and an indication of a property of the compression process used to generate the compressed data from the biomedical waveform signal. A second apparatus includes a receiver (201) receiving the data signal. A decompressor (303) generates a reconstructed biomedical waveform signal by decompression of the compressed data. Further, the second apparatus comprises an adapter (307) which adapts the decompression in dependence on the indication of the property of the compression. The approach may provide a highly efficient and flexible compression of biomedical waveform signals.

A method is disclosed, comprising: receiving, by a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters indicating at least two search space set (SS) groups for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring; monitoring the PDCCH according to a first SS group of the at least two SS groups; receiving a downlink control information (DCI) comprising a PDCCH monitoring adaptation field indicating skipping PDCCH during a first window; stopping or skipping, during the first window, the PDCCH monitoring; and in response to transmitting an uplink signal comprising a negative acknowledgement, resuming or starting, after a transmission occasion of the uplink signal, the PDCCH monitoring according to a second SS group of the at least two SS groups.

The invention relates to methods and products for risk stratification of low risk prostate cancer patients. In particular the methods provide for predicting an outcome for prostate cancer patients with an ISUP score of 1 or 2. In addition the invention describes treatment suggestions based on the methods of the invention.

A method is disclosed, comprising sending, by a wireless device, to a session management function, SMF, a protocol data unit, PDU, session message requesting a quality of service, QoS, flow of the wireless device, wherein: the QoS flow comprises a plurality of PDU sets associated with a respective plurality of data units of an application; each PDU set comprises one or more PDUs of a respective data unit; the QoS flow comprises QoS parameters of the QoS flow indicating a packet error rate, PER, and a packet delay budget, PDB, for the QoS flow; and the QoS flow is associated with one or more alternative QoS parameter sets, each alternative QoS parameter set comprising an alternative PDU set error rate, PSER, and an alternative PDU set delay budget, PSDB; and receiving, by the wireless device from the SMF, a non-access stratum, NAS, message indicating whether QoS requirements as indicated by the QoS parameters are fulfilled or not.

An apparatus comprises a receiver (201) receiving a biomedical waveform time domain signal and a circuit (203) arranging samples of the biomedical signal into an N-dimensional data structure (N≥2). A compression circuit (205) generates compressed data by applying a compression process to the N-dimensional data structure where the compression process includes an N-dimensional transform coding. A data signal generator (207) generates the data signal to include the compressed data, and an adapter (209) adapts the arranging of samples of the biomedical signal into the structure dependent on a property, such as for example a periodicity, of the biomedical waveform time domain signal. A complementary apparatus is arranged to perform the complementary operations to reconstruct the biomedical waveform time domain signal.

Disclosed is a method (100) for controlling an x-ray system (102), wherein the x-ray system (102) is configured to acquire x-ray images (142) of a target radiation field (134) based on imaging instructions (132) provided by an operator (500) on a display unit (130), wherein the size of the target radiation field (134) may exceed a size of a detector (116). The display unit (130) is configured to display augmented image data (120), wherein the augmented image data (128) comprises 3D projection information (124) about the position of the subject (106) as well as overlays of virtual collimation fields (136). The virtual collimation fields (136) comprise sets of virtual positions (138) of the x-ray components (110). The x-ray system (102) may then be controlled to move the x-ray components (110) to the virtual positions (138), acquiring an x-ray image (142) at each virtual position (138).

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A personal care device drive unit, a personal care system and a method for detecting which of a set of different functional units is attached to the personal care device drive unit using a combination of: at least one parameter related to a measured electric current in a motor of the personal care device drive unit, at least one parameter relating to a measured vibration of a main body of the personal care device drive unit, and at least one parameter of a magnetic field measured by a magnetic field sensor at a fixed location in the main body of the personal care device drive unit. At least one of the set of different functional units includes a functional unit having an integrated magnetic field modifier which modifies a magnetic field detectable at the fixed location in the main body into a pre-determined value.

The present invention relates to a multicore optical fiber (10) configured for optical shape sensing. The optical fiber (10) comprises a cladding (12) and a plurality of fiber cores (14, 16, 18, 20) embedded in the cladding (12). The fiber cores (14, 16, 18, 20) each have a reflective strain sensitive structure (21) responsive to strain in the optical fiber (10). The cladding (12) comprises, along a length of the optical fiber (10), a main section (22) and a distal tip section (24) arranged distally from the main section (22). The main section (22) has a first width along a first axis transverse to a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber (10) and a first number of fiber cores, and the tip section (24) has a second width along a second axis parallel to said first axis and a second number of fiber cores. The second width is reduced with respect to the first width such that a bending stiffness of the tip section (24) about a bending axis orthogonal to said second axis is lower than the bending stiffness of the main section (22) about a bending axis orthogonal to said first axis. An elongated device for medical interventional application comprising such a multicore optical fiber is also disclosed.

An ultrasound imaging system acquires, stores, and displays a sequence of ultrasound images of microvasculature acquired during a cycle of contrast agent wash-in and wash-out. The sequence of images is recalled from memory and a region of interest containing microvessels in one of the images is selected using a user interface. The sizes of the microvessels in the region of interest are measured. A slider control on the user interface is manipulated to select a range of microvessel sizes in the region of interest for assessment.

A computer-implemented method of performing a haemodynamic simulation, is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a first processing system (110), spectral CT data (120) representing an anatomical region (130). The method also includes performing (S120), using the first processing system (110), a first haemodynamic simulation using at least a portion of the spectral CT data (120) to provide a first haemodynamic simulation result (140). The method also includes obtaining (S130) a reduced spectral CT dataset (120') from the spectral CT data (120) based on a relevance of one or more subsets (120_1..i) of the spectral CT data to the first haemodynamic simulation result (140). The method also includes transmitting (S140) the reduced spectral CT dataset (120') to a second processing system (150) and/or to a computer-readable storage medium (160).

The present invention relates to a multicore optical fiber (10) configured for shape sensing. The optical fiber (10) comprises an elongated main section (40) and a distal tip section (42) connected to the main section (40). The main section (40) comprises a first cladding (12a) and a plurality of first fiber cores (14a, 16a, 18a, 20a) embedded in the first cladding (12a), and the distal tip section (42) comprises a second cladding (12b) and a plurality of second fiber cores (14b, 16b, 18b, 20b) embedded in the second cladding (12b). The first and second fiber cores (14a, 14b, 16a, 16b, 18a, 18b, 20a, 20b) comprise reflective strain sensitive structures (21) configured for distributed shape sensing along the main section (40) and the distal tip section (42). The main section (40) comprises a first material and the distal tip section (42) comprises a second material different from the first material, wherein a first strain at break of the main section (40) is lower than a second strain at break of the distal tip section (42).

The present invention relates to an elongated device (10) for medical interventional application. The device comprises a multicore optical fiber (12) arranged for sensing shape, a longitudinal lumen (14) having a longitudinal axis and embedding the optical fiber (12), a shell (16) surrounding the lumen (14), the shell (16) having a main section (18) and a distal terminal section (20) having a bending stiffness lower than that of the main section. The device (10) further comprises a mechanically bendable extension member (34) coupled to a distal ending portion (32) of the optical fiber (12), the extension member (34) longitudinally extending within the lumen (14) into the terminal section (20) of the shell (16). The extension member (34) is configured to transfer bending information related to a bending of the extension member (34) to the ending portion (32) of the optical fiber (12) such that the bending information is sensed by the optical fiber (12).

There is provided a computer-implemented method for determining a setting of a therapy device adapted to provide sleep disordered breathing (SDB) therapy to a subject. The method comprises receiving medication information representative of medication used by the subject. The method comprises determining trait information based on the medication information. The trait information is representative of an influence of the medication on a pathophysiological trait of the subject. The pathophysiological trait has an influence on the SDB of the subject. The method comprises determining the setting of the therapy device based on the trait information.

The present invention relates to a system and computer-implementable method for document-based question answering. The method comprises obtaining a document; obtaining a question of a user related to said document; invoking an AI agent to generate an answer to said question; and outputting the generated answer.

A mechanism for controlling image processing performed on a portion of a digital ultrasound image. One or more display parameters for display of the portion of the digital ultrasound image are used to modify or define one or more parameters of at least one spatial filtering function applied to the portion of the digital ultrasound image.

A computer-implemented method of controlling power consumption within a medical imaging environment (110), is provided. The method includes: receiving video data (120) capturing at least a portion of a medical imaging system (130<1>) within the medical imaging environment (110). The method also includes predicting, based on the video data (120), and for at least one electrical system (130<1..i>) within the medical imaging environment including the medical imaging system (130<1>), or a subsystem of the medical imaging system (130<1>), a future demand for the at least one electrical system. The method also includes generating control signals (140<1..i>) for controlling an energy consumption of the at least one electrical system (130<1..i>) in accordance with the corresponding predicted future demand.

In the field of medical imaging, suboptimal settings for contrast-enhanced scan sequences can lead to impaired images and in turn to less accurate diagnosis or the need for repeat scans. There is therefore provided a method for adapting a medical imaging procedure to patient characteristics. The method comprises: obtaining (302) at least one measurement of a patient-specific physiological parameter, comprising at least one measurement of pulse transit time of a patient; based on the at least one measurement of pulse transit time, determining (304) a setting for at least one patient-specific system-control parameter for carrying out the medical imaging procedure, wherein the at least one patient-specific system-control parameter comprises at least one substance administration parameter that relates to administration of a substance to the patient for facilitating the medical imaging procedure; and outputting (306) the determined setting for the at least one patient-specific system-control parameter for carrying out the medical imaging procedure. The method thus utilizes pulse transit time as a dynamic feedback parameter for system control in medical imaging, such as for sequence timing and the administration of substances such as contrast agents and beta blockers.

A method of generating guidance for a user of a personal care device with regards to at least one aspect of user-control of the device by means of a controlled acoustic output.

A defibrillation method involving systematically operating a defibrillator (200) between a scheduled operation mode and a custom operation mode. The scheduled operation mode includes an uninterruptible CPR protocol of a fixed CPRtime period and a scheduled shock protocol. The custom operation mode includes an interruptible CPR protocol of a variable time period and a custom shock protocol. An initial execution of the custom operation mode by the defibrillator (200) is disabled by a defibrillation controller (204) prior to a delivery of an initial defibrillating shock to a heart of a patient by the defibrillator (200), and the initial execution of the custom operation mode by the defibrillator (200) is enabled by the defibrillation controller (204) subsequent to the delivery of the initial defibrillating shock by the defibrillator (200) to the heart of the patient.

Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 200, 400, 600) comprising a subject support (104) with an array of spatially distributed pressure sensors (108). The medical system further comprises a remote spatial mapping system (106, 106') configured for measuring a spatial map (132).The execution of machine executable instructions (130) causes a computational system (120) to: repeatedly (306) acquire the spatial map from the remote spatial mapping system; repeatedly (308) acquire the array of pressure data; generate (302, 310) a subject position model (138) using the repeatedly acquired spatial map and the array of pressure data; repeatedly (312) acquire the array of pressure data (140) from the array of spatially distributed pressure sensors; repeatedly (314) receive the subject position by inputting the array of pressure data into the subject position model; and repeatedly (316) provide the subject position.

Proposed concepts thus aim to provide schemes, solutions, concepts, designs, methods and systems pertaining to monitoring cardiac function of a subject. In particular, embodiments aim to provide a method for monitoring cardiac function of a subject by utilizing signal quality indicators (SQIs) to identify the best available ECG leads to use during an initialization/calibration phase of a trained algorithm for monitoring cardiac function (e.g., a machine-learning model trained to detect cardiac arrhythmia in a subject), as well as triggering a re-initialization/recalibration if the ECG lead signals are absent of transient noise (thus indicating a non-temporary change in the monitoring setup).

A personal care system and a method for controlling a lighting unit of a personal care device to provide contextual light-based functionality to a user of the personal care device. A light output of the lighting unit is adapted in accordance with which of a set of possible functional attachments a user has attached to the device.

An audio apparatus comprises a video signal receiver (201) receiving video signals from cameras capturing a scene, and an audio signal receiver (203) receives audio signals from microphones capturing audio of the scene. An object selector (205) selects an object of the scene by selecting an image object in a video signal and an object position determiner (207) determines an object position for the object in the scene from detections of the object in images of the video signals and from known poses of the cameras. The distance from the object position to the audio capture poses does not exceed five times the largest distance between the poses. An audio mixer (209) generates an audio mix signal by mixing the audio signals. At least some mixing weights for the audio signals are determined as a function of the first object position relative to audio capture poses for the audio signals.

A superconducting apparatus includes: an electrically superconductive coil having a first and second coil sections, which are separated and spaced apart from each other; a first support structure and a second support structure disposed to support the first and second coil sections. The first and second support structures are configured to maintain relative axial positions of the first and second coil sections to be fixed when the first and second coil sections are energized and de-energized, and to allow each of the first and second coil sections to expand radially during ramp energization; and a third support structure including a center ring or a mid-flexure stiffener, and a mid-flexure disposed between the first support structure and the second support structure. The center ring is adapted to provide a reactionary force to bending forces on the first and second coil sections and the mid-flexure structure is adapted to provide a substantially constant contact force with the first and second coil sections during expansion when the first and second coil sections are energized.

A hair cutting appliance (10) comprises a housing portion (20), a cutting unit (24) and an attachment hair collector (14). The cutting unit (24) extends between two lateral ends (36) and has a stationary cutting element (26) and a movable cutting element (28) that together define a cutting edge (30). The hair collector (14) comprises a bucket portion (50) forming a hair container (94), at least one mounting feature (56, 58, 60, 62) formed at a side edge (52) or a bottom edge (54) of the bucket portion (50), and a collar (66) formed at the bucket portion (50) and defining a hair inlet (96) together with the cutting unit (24). The collar (66) has two side walls (68) and a connecting wall (70) extending between the two side walls (68). The connecting wall (70) is arranged opposite to the cutting edge (30) to define a hair entry mouth (100) therebetween. Each of the side walls (68) extends to one of the two lateral ends (36) of the cutting unit (24). The two lateral ends (36) are arranged between the side walls (68) in a neighboring relationship.

System (FCS) and related method for X-ray imaging. The system comprises an input interface (IN) through which is receivable detector data detectable by an X-ray detector (XD) of an X-ray imaging apparatus (IA) upon irradiation by X-radiation from a focal spot (FS) of the imaging apparatus (IA)'s X-ray source (XR). A binner (BN) bins the detector data into binned detector data. The said binning by binner (BN) is based on a manner in which a spatial extent of a projection on the detector (XD) of the focal spot (FS) is changeable along at least one spatial direction X,Z.

A temperature supervisor (10) for an X-ray tube comprises a processor (12) configured to: receive tube operational data (16) during use of the X-ray tube in an X-ray imaging system, wherein the tube operational data comprises a voltage and/or current and/or power applied to the X-ray tube; process the received tube operational data to determine a present temperature of a component of the X-ray tube; receive mechanical load data (18) during use of the X-ray tube, wherein the mechanical load data relates to a present mechanical load on the component. In accordance with the invention, the mechanical load data is used to determine a present temperature limit for the component, wherein the present temperature limit is dynamic and dependent on the present mechanical load on the component. The determined present temperature of the component is compared with the determined present temperature limit of the component to output an alarm signal (21) for alerting a user and/or a safety control signal (22) for controlling operation of the X-ray tube, if the determined present temperature of the component is higher than the determined present temperature limit of the component. The temperature supervisor (10) provides safety in combination with high-performance utilization of the X-ray tube in that the dynamic temperature limit depends on the mechanical load on the X-ray tube component and therefore allows to take co-dependency between mechanical load and maximum thermal load into account.

The invention relates to a method of predicting an outcome of a subject having a melanoma based on the expression level of one or more genes. The invention further describes methods for determining an optimal treatment strategy based on gene expression levels. In addition the invention provides an immune checkpoint inhibitor for use in the treatment of melanoma, the use comprising determining the outcome base on gene expression levels and providing the immune checkpoint inhibitor when a favorable response to treatment is predicted.

Proposed concepts aim to provide methods and systems pertaining to assessing the quality of an ECG signal. In particular, embodiments aim to provide a method for automatically determining a signal quality value of an ECG signal based on a fiducial point of the ECG signal that has been identified using a non-ECG cardiac signal.

A monitor/defibrillator (10) employing a defibrillator controller (30) for, in a manual defibrillation mode, analyzing an unfiltered ECG data including cardiopulmonary resuscitation artifacts for detecting any presence of an unfiltered shockable cardiac rhythm within the unfiltered ECG data, and analyzing a filtered ECG data excluding cardiopulmonary resuscitation artifacts for detecting any presence of a filtered shockable cardiac rhythm within the filtered ECG data. The monitor/defibrillator (10) further employs a monitor controller (40) for, in the manual defibrillation mode, displaying an unfiltered ECG waveform and a filtered ECG waveform, and for delineating a color coding of a shock advised segment of the display of the filtered ECG waveform as an indication of a detection by the defibrillator controller (30) of a presence of the unfiltered shockable cardiac rhythm within the unfiltered ECG data and/or of a detection by the defibrillator controller (30) of a presence of the filtered shockable cardiac rhythm within the filtered ECG data.

A system (100) for determining a suitability of positions along a lumen (110) as end point locations for a stent, includes one or more processors (120) configured to: receive (S110), from an intraluminal imaging device (130), a temporal sequence of intraluminal images (140<1..n>) representing positions along the lumen (110), including at least a first intraluminal image (140<i⊂1..n>); and identify (S120), whether or not the first intraluminal image (140<i⊂1..n>) represents a suitable end point location for the stent.

A safety monitoring method for a gradient chain of a magnetic resonance examination system comprises:applying (S1) an input gradient waveform to the gradient chain at a set time period,determining (S2) a predicted output of the gradient chain which is induced by the input gradient waveform, on the basis of a predetermined frequency dependent impedance value of the gradient chain which has been predetermined by measuring transfer functions of the gradient chain for different frequencies before the set time period,measuring (S3) the actual output of the gradient chain which is induced by the input gradient waveform,comparing (S4) the actual output with the predicted output, andtriggering (SS) a corrective action if the comparing (S4) has indicated a difference beyond a predefined admissible difference.In this way, the safety monitoring method can reliably detect and mitigate electrical faults, such as broken conductors or loose contacts, to prevent sustained electrical arcing and thereby enhance the safety and integrity of the MR equipment, as well as protect patients and medical personnel.

System and related method for tomographic imaging. The system may comprise an input interface for receiving a scan request for a region of interest in a surrounding object. Control logic is operable to cause a tomographic imaging apparatus in an imaging session to acquire, along an acquisition axis (Z), multiple projection frames λ(z) of the surrounding object optionally with application of an image quality, IQ, booster operation, for ranges along the acquisition axis of the imaging apparatus. Whilst the imaging session is ongoing, based on a quality assessment in relation to the acquired projection frames, the control logic is to cause revisit one or more times, an earlier range and re-acquire there fresh projection fames λ'(z), with application of the image quality, IQ, booster operation, until the quality assessment is indicative of the quality being on target, or until a stopping condition is met.