Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Aktiengellschaft

Volker Schmidt

Siegfried Schneider

Tilo Christ

Werner Striebel

Thomas Birkhoelzer

Gudrun Zahlmann

Hans Schüll

Christoph Grundel

Klaus Abraham-Fuchs

Helmut Reichenberger

Arne Hengerer

Michael Becker

Klaus Gagneur

Michael Mankopf

Alexander Herold

Paul Druegh

Robert Wirth

Henrich Seifert

Sven Tiffe

Heinz Prihoda

Gregor De Lijzer

The invention relates to a holding device for supporting the hands of a patient resting on an examination couch. In accordance with the invention, the holding device for supporting the hands of a patient resting on an examination couch comprises gripping zones which are distanced from one another, said gripping zones each being grippable with a hand of the patient, with the holding device being moveable independently of further devices surrounding the patient.

Holding device

The invention relates to a method for analyzing image processing procedures, in which unprocessed original image data is stored, stored original image data is retrieved, retrieved original image data is processed, the individual processing steps during the processing of the image data are in some instances stored together with the respective processing step parameter values, and the processed image data is stored such that it can be assigned to the processing steps stored during its processing and in some instances processing step parameter values. According to the invention the processed image data is analyzed statistically and the result of the statistical analysis is stored such that it can be assigned to the stored processing steps and in some instances processing step parameter values. The original image data is optionally included in the statistical analysis of the processed image data.

Method for analyzing image data

In a method and a system for supporting the evaluation of a picture of a patient's eye the picture is displayed on a screen. An image-processing algorithm from a number of image processing algorithms is selected due to a preliminary diagnosis selected from a number of diagnoses which are related to diabetes. Each image-processing algorithm of the number of image processing algorithms is associated with a diagnosis of the number of diagnoses and is designed to search for a pattern which is specific to the respective diagnosis. The selected image-processing algorithm then is applied to the picture and a pattern which is detected by the selected image-processing algorithm is marked on the screen in the picture.

Method and system for supporting the evaluation of a picture of an eye

In a method and system for retrieving a medical image from a data base, an image processing algorithm is applied to a first medical image. The result of the applied image processing algorithm to the first medical image is compared with a plurality of results being stored in a data base. Each result of the plurality of results is the result of the image-processing algorithm being applied to each medical image of a plurality of medical images which is stored in the data base. Then, a second medical image belonging to the plurality of medical images is determined and retrieved from the data base, wherein the relevant result is comparable to the relevant result related to the first medical image.

Method and system for retrieving a medical picture

In a method and system for monitoring the course of therapy administered to a patient, at least one information value that requires a therapeutic and/or diagnostic measure and that is a direct or indirect measure of the course of the therapy is registered continuously or in time intervals, and at least one comparison value, to be compared to the information value or to a calculated value determined based on the information value, is allocated to the information value. An alarm signal is emitted given an impermissible deviation of the information value or of the calculated value from the comparison value and is detected in the course of the comparison. The comparison value is varied dependent on the course of the therapy and is adapted to the course of the therapy, the adaptation of ensuing automatically or by means of an authorized person or entity.

Method and system for monitoring the course of therapy of a patient being therapeutically treated

A method and medical system for the postdischarge surveillance of a patient () for detecting a case of pneumonia, secondary bleeding, a wound healing problem, a pulmonary complication, a urinary tract infection or a thrombosis of the patient (), having a data bank (), which is arranged at a location other than the location () at which the patient () is based during the surveillance and stores data relevant for the postdischarge surveillance of the patient () recorded during the postdischarge surveillance.

Method and medical system for the postdischarge surveillance of a patient

In a system for conducting medical studies a number of medical locations, such as clinics or medical practices, are connected to a central server via a computer network. The system is constructed in modular fashion, and it is automatically determined, with computer support within the system, whether a specific patient is eligible to participate in a medical study of the system, and if so, the sequence of the corresponding medical study is controlled centrally by corresponding modules, automatically and in a study-specific and patient-specific fashion.

Computerized system for conducting medical studies

A system for automatically monitoring persons in a domestic environment by using sensors for detecting characteristic parameters which are supplied to a surveillance center which, if necessary, alerts an alarm center, particularly a service provider, the sensors detecting a plurality of domestic devices (including measuring devices) used or operated regularly and the sensor data being supplied personalized and automatically to the center which evaluates the incoming data by using an expert system with predetermined rules.

System for automatically monitoring persons in a domestic environment

A method for the processing of data which are stored in at least one database in at least partially encrypted form, in which case the data can be read by a user communicating with the database via a communications link and, if necessary, new data can be stored, in which case the data are decrypted and/or encrypted exclusively by the user using a key which is stored in a central further database and can be transmitted exclusively to the authorized user.

Secure data processing method

A medical system for monitoring a measured value of a patient characterizing blood clotting and/or for setting a medication that influences blood clotting for a patient in a home environment, has a device for acquiring measured values of the patient relating to blood clotting, a device for transmitting the measured values to a system central, a device for interrogating the measured values, and a reception device at a monitoring person. The system central has a memory for the measured values, an analysis device for the measured values by comparing the measured values to stored reference values, an alarm generator which generates an alarm signal upon a recognition of predetermined conditions, and a routing device for forwarding the alarm signal to a reception device of a person to be alerted in a process chain.

Medical system for monitoring a measured value of a patient relating to blood-clotting

User interface for a medical playback device

In an autonomous emergency monitoring system, wherein the user need not carry any signaling devices whatsoever, an emergency situation can be reported to an external receiver by voice input via microphones via a communication interface. Further, a monitoring of the person can ensue via sensor systems that can likewise setup an external connection via the communication interface.

Home emergency warning system

In a method and apparatus for determining the energy balance of a living subject on the basis of the energy use and on the basis of nutrition intake, the energy balance is calculated on the basis of a determined energy use of the subject and on the basis of an input of the nutrition intake of the subject via an input unit. This calculation takes place in a calculating unit supplied with a signal corresponding to the energy use, using a value of the calorific value of the food that can be obtained from a memory. A signal corresponding to this energy balance can be generated on a display unit.

Method and apparatus for determining the energy balance of a living

Monitoring apparatus is disclosed for monitoring the operating condition of transmission facilities of communications transmission technology, whereby signal collectors (stations) of a signal collecting device collect trouble reports acquired in monitoring the transmission. The monitoring apparatus should collect trouble reports in as economical a manner as possible and should keep further criteria for the quality of the monitored transmission devices ready for interrogation, as needed. This is achieved by a monitoring apparatus having an evalution and memory device which periodically registers measured values. The measuring device can be advantageously employed for monitoring line terminal equipment in PCM transmission facilities.

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Erlangen, Germany

Volker Schmidt