Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Energy, Inc.

Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.

Siemens Mobility Gmbh

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Corporation

Ziyan Wu

Srikrishna Karanam

Terrence Chen

Arun Innanje

Abhishek Sharma

Meng Zheng

Shanhui Sun

Jan Ernst

Benjamin Planche

Zhang Chen

Kuan-Chuan Peng

Yimo Guo

Kevin P Bailey

Georgios Georgakis

Rameswar Panda

Stefan Kluckner

Kai Ma

Birgi Tamersoy

Mingchao Wang

Slobodan Ilic

Sergey Zakharov

Yining Wang

Weiqiang Hao

Zhuobiao He

Ren Li

Changjiang Cai

Zhongpai Gao

Yunye Gong

Wei Zhang

Vivek Kumar Singh

Yao-Jen Chang

Andreas Hutter

Xiao Chen

Lingyun Wang

Ti-chiun Chang

Andreas Wimmer

Yikang Liu

Andreas Meyer

Yongqin Xiao

Hasan Sinan Bank

Mareike Kritzler

Phani Ram Kumar Kuruganty

Oliver Lehmann

Naveen Kumar Singa

Dong Zhang

Ramesh Nair

Bor-Jeng Chen

Kunpeng Li

Liangchen Song

Elena Zhao

Lidan Wang

Zheng Peng

Qin Liu

Zikui Cai

Pierre Sibut-Bourde

Rameswar Rameswar

A power management apparatus for a workflow to enable low power MR patient positioning on edge devices is disclosed. The power management apparatus changes an operational mode of an edge device from a first power mode to a second power mode after a defined time-interval. The power management apparatus further controls the edge device to capture a first image of a first scene. The power management apparatus further determines a trigger point based on a detection of a plurality of objects in the captured first image. The power management apparatus further changes the operational mode of the edge device from the second power mode to a third power mode to control a consumption of electric power while a set of operations is executed at the edge device. The operational mode of the edge device may be changed at the determined trigger point.

Apparatus and method to enable low power magnetic resonance patient positioning on edge devices

A person's privacy is protected by the law in many settings and disclosed herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with anonymizing an image of a person while still preserving the visual saliency and/or utility of the image for one or more downstream tasks. These objectives may be accomplished using various machine-learning (ML) techniques such as ML models trained for extracting identifying and residual features from the input image as well as ML models trained for transforming the identifying features into identity-concealing features and for preserving the utility features of the image. An output image may be generated based on the various ML models, wherein the identity of the person may be substantially disguised in the output image while the background and utility attributes of the original image may be substantially maintained in the output image.

Systems and methods for anonymizing images

Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with estimating the motions of multiple 3D points in a scene and predicting a view of scene based on the estimated motions. The tasks may be accomplished using one or more machine-learning (ML) models. A first ML model may be used to predict motion-embedding features for a temporal state of a scene, based on motion-embedding features for previous states. A second ML model may be used to predict a motion field representing displacement or deformation of the multiple 3D points from a source time to a target time. Then, a third ML model may be used to predict respective image properties of the 3D points based on their updated locations at the target time and/or a viewing direction. An image of the scene at the target time may then be generated based on the predicted image properties of the 3D points.

Systems and methods for motion estimation and view prediction

Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with automatically annotating a 3D image dataset. The 3D automatic annotation may be accomplished based on a 2D annotation provided by an annotator and by propagating the 2D annotation through multiple images of a sequence of 2D images associated with the 3D image dataset. The automatically annotated 3D image dataset may then be used to annotate other 3D image datasets based on similarities between the first 3D image dataset and the other 3D image datasets. The automatic annotation of the first 3D image dataset and/or the other 3D image datasets may be conducted based on one or more machine-learning models trained for performing those tasks.

Systems and methods for annotating 3D data

The physical characteristics of one or more anatomical structures of a person may change in accordance with conditions surrounding the determination of such physical characteristics. Machine learning based techniques may be used to determine a template representation of the one or more anatomical structures that may indicate the physical characteristics of the one or more anatomical structures free of the impact imposed by changing conditions. The template representation may then be used to predict the physical characteristics of the one or more anatomical structures under a new set of conditions, without subjecting the person to additional medical scans.

Systems and methods for determining anatomical deformations

The 3D pose of a person may be estimated by triangulating 2D representations of body keypoints (e.g., joint locations) of the person. The triangulation may leverage various metrics such as confidence scores associated with the 2D representations of a keypoint and/or temporal consistency between multiple 3D representations of the keypoint. The 2D representations may be arranged into groups, a candidate 3D representation may be determined for each group, taking into account of the confidence score of each 2D representation in the group, and the candidate 3D representation that has the smallest error may be used to represent the keypoint. Other 3D representation(s) of the keypoint determined from images taken at different times may be used to refine the 3D representation of the keypoint.

Systems and methods for determining 3D human pose based on 2D keypoints

A method and a system for managing healthcare records of a user are provided. The method includes storing an electronic medical record related to the user in form of a non-fungible token (NFT) written to a blockchain, associating a smart contract to the NFT in the blockchain, authorizing a request to access the electronic medical record related to the user based on the defined ownership of the electronic medical record stored in the blockchain, identifying one or more NFTs from the blockchain comprising one or more electronic medical records related to the user based on processing of the identifier information in associated one or more smart contracts therewith, in response to the request, and sending the one or more electronic medical records corresponding to the identified one or more NFTs to a requestor associated with the request.

Patient care record management system

An automated process for data annotation of medical images includes obtaining image data from an imaging sensor, partitioning the image data, identifying an object of interest in the partitioned image data, generating an initial contour with one or more control points with respect to the object of interest, identifying a manual adjustment of one of the control points, automatically adjust a position of at least one other control point within a predetermined range of the manually adjusted control point to a new position, the new position of the at least one other control point and manually adjusted control point defining a new contour, and generating an updated image with the new contour and corresponding control points.

Interactive contour refinements for data annotation

An apparatus for automated collision avoidance includes a sensor configured to detect an object of interest, predicting a representation of the object of interest at a future point in time, calculating an indication of a possibility of a collision with the object of interest based on the representation of the object of interest at the future point in time, and executing a collision avoidance action based on the indication.

Automated collision avoidance in medical environments

The present disclosure provides a system and method for fetus monitoring. The method may include obtaining ultrasound data relating to a fetus collected by an ultrasound imaging device; generating a 4D image of the fetus based on the ultrasound data; directing a display component of a virtual reality (VR) device to display the 4D image to an operator; detecting motion of the fetus based on the ultrasound data; and directing a haptic component of the VR device to provide haptic feedback with respect to the motion to the operator.

Systems and methods for fetus monitoring

A human model such as a 3D human mesh may be generated for a person in a medical environment based on one or more images of the person. The images may be captured using a sensing device that may be attached to an existing medical device such as a medical scanner in the medical environment. Such an arrangement may ensure that unblocked views of the person (e.g., body keypoints of the person) may be obtained and used to generate the human model. The position of the medical device in the medical environment may be determined and used to facilitate the human model construction such that the pose and body shape of the person in the medical environment may be accurately represented by the human model.

Systems and methods for human model recovery

Click based contour editing includes detecting a selection input with respect to an image presented on a graphical user interface; designating an area of the image corresponding to the selection input as a region of interest; detecting at least one other selection input on the graphical user interface with respect to the image; determining if the at least one other selection input is within the region of interest or outside of the region of interest; and if the at least one other selection input is within the region of interest, excluding the portion of the image corresponding to the other input; or if the other selection input is outside of the region of interest, including the portion of the image corresponding to an area of the image associated with the other selection input.

Click based contour editing

A medical system may utilize a modular and extensible sensing device to derive a two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) human model for a patient in real-time based on images of the patient captured by a sensor such as a digital camera. The 2D or 3D human model may be visually presented on one or more devices of the medical system and used to facilitate a healthcare service provided to the patient. In examples, the 2D or 3D human model may be used to improve the speed, accuracy and consistency of patient positioning for a medical procedure. In examples, the 2D or 3D human model may be used to enable unified analysis of the patient's medical conditions by linking different scan images of the patient through the 2D or 3D human model. In examples, the 2D or 3D human model may be used to facilitate surgical navigation, patient monitoring, process automation, and/or the like.

Sensing device for medical facilities

Human model recovery may be realized utilizing pre-trained artificially neural networks. A first neural network may be trained to determine body keypoints of a person based on image(s) of a person. A second neural network may be trained to predict pose parameters associated with the person based on the body keypoints. A third neural network may be trained to predict shape parameters associated with the person based on depth image(s) of the person. A 3D human model may then be generated based on the pose and shape parameters respectively predicted by the second and third neural networks. The training of the second neural network may be conducted using synthetically generated body keypoints and the training of the third neural network may be conducted using normal maps. The pose and shape parameters predicted by the second and third neural networks may be further optimized through an iterative optimization process.

Human model recovery using deep learning techniques

A method for medical imaging is provided. The method may include automatically determining that a positioning procedure of a subject has been finished based on image data of the subject captured by an image capturing device. The method may also include obtaining status information of a medical device. The method may further include causing the medical device to perform a scan on the subject based on a determination result that the positioning procedure of the subject has been finished, the status information of the medical device, and a starting signal of the scan.

Systems and methods for medical imaging

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