摘要:
A method for providing automatic decision support for the selection of a treatment protocol includes receiving information pertaining to the patient, the condition and the preferences partially or wholly by automatically parsing patient records. The information pertaining to the patient, the condition and the preferences may be partially or wholly ascertained by prompting a user for manual input of the desired data. The information is used to calculate one or more surrogate variables. A knowledge base including a plurality of treatment protocols is accessed and one or more of the plurality of treatment protocols are selected from the knowledge base based on the received information pertaining to the patient, the condition, and the preferences, the surrogate variables, and using a probabilistic framework. The selected treatment protocols are provided as treatment guidance.
摘要:
An RF receiver includes an analog GO circuit that recognizes the presence of a data packet within a received RF signal in the receiver's analog gain control section, and in response produces an analog GO signal, and a digital GO circuit that recognizes the presence of a data packet from the receiver's digital demodulator section, and in response produces a digital GO signal. Gain control functions within the analog gain control section, and digital demodulator functions within the digital demodulator section, are enabled in response to respective analog and digital GO signals. The system is capable of distinguishing a valid data packet from noise, co-channel interference and adjacent panel interference. A symbol timing recovery circuit within the receiver identifies periodic samples of a data packet preamble that most closely match the preamble bits, with the receiver employing a continuation of the identified periodic samples to decode the remainder of the data packet.
摘要:
A system and method for diagnosis and treatment decisions based on information maximization is disclosed. Utilizing patient information as well as clinical records from other patients can reduce the uncertainty in both diagnosis and treatment options. The information maximization may consider additional data such as risk, cost, and comfort in making a proper medical decision.
摘要:
A method and an apparatus display marks in an image data set, wherein an image data set comprising marks is provided and wherein during a review phase not all marks within the image data set are displayed at the same time. A list of the marks can be generated by sorting the marks depending on a predetermined sorting criterion and wherein the marks are displayed temporally one after another within the image data set in accordance with the generated list. The image data set is for example a medical image data set, wherein the marks are CAD marks and wherein the sorting criterion is the probability of marking illness, in particular the suspiciousness.
摘要:
Three-dimensional cardiac border is delineated in medical imaging. A view is labeled, such as identifying a two-dimensional view as an apical four-chamber view. A three-dimensional border is detected as a function of the view label. For example, the view is associated from a plane through a volume and a known orientation relative to the heart. Labeling the view indicates the orientation of the heart in the scanned volume. By determining the orientation of the heart, border detection processes may be simplified or assisted.
摘要:
A system and method for diagnosis and treatment decisions based on information maximization is disclosed. Utilizing patient information as well as clinical records from other patients can reduce the uncertainty in both diagnosis and treatment options. The information maximization may consider additional data such as risk, cost, and comfort in making a proper medical decision.
摘要:
A cardiac view of a medical ultrasound image is automatically identified. By grouping different views into sub-categories, a hierarchal classifier identifies the views. For example, apical views are distinguished from parasternal views. Specific types of apical or parasternal views are identified based on distinguishing between images of the geneses. Different features are used for classifying, such as gradients, functions of the gradients, statistics of an average frame of data from a clip or sequence of frames, or a number of edges along a given direction. The number of features used may be compressed, such as by classifying a plurality of features into a new feature. For example, alpha weights in a model of features and classes are determined and used as features for classification.
摘要:
A system and method for local deformable motion analysis and for accurately tracking motion of an object isolating local motion of an object from global motion of an object is disclosed. The object is viewed in an image sequence and image regions are sampled to identify object image regions and background image regions. The motion of at least one of the identified background image regions is estimated to identify those background image regions affected by global motion. Motion from multiple background image regions are combined to measure the global motion in that image frame. The measured global motion in the object image regions are compensated to measure local motion of the object and the local motion of the object is tracked. A system and method for accurately measuring the local deformable motion of an object as the relative motion between two control point sets is disclosed. The point sets are defined as the inner contour and the outer contour of an object. The motion of the control point sets is estimated and the relative motion is used to characterize the local deformation and local motion of the object.
摘要:
CAD (computer-aided diagnosis) systems and applications for breast imaging are provided, which implement methods to automatically extract and analyze features from a collection of patient information (including image data and/or non-image data) of a subject patient, to provide decision support for various aspects of physician workflow including, for example, automated diagnosis of breast cancer other automated decision support functions that enable decision support for, e.g., screening and staging for breast cancer. The CAD systems implement machine-learning techniques that use a set of training data obtained (learned) from a database of labeled patient cases in one or more relevant clinical domains and/or expert interpretations of such data to enable the CAD systems to “learn” to analyze patient data and make proper diagnostic assessments and decisions for assisting physician workflow.
摘要:
The invention is directed to improvement in diagnostic medical ultrasound contrast agent imaging. Subharmonic and harmonic imaging are combined by generating a subharmonic frequency intensity value, generating a harmonic frequency intensity value, and generating display indicia as a function of both the subharmonic and harmonic intensity values. A first embodiment of the invention is directed to using predominantly harmonic information in one mode and predominantly subharmonic information in a second mode. A second embodiment of the invention is directed to combining harmonic and subharmonic information in the same mode.