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A system for monitoring a patient's vital signs that features a vital-sign monitor including sensors for measuring from the patient at least one of the following vital-sign data: O₂ saturation, blood pressure, electro-cardiogram, respirator rate, and blood glucose level. The system also includes a global positioning system that determines location-based data. A wireless transmitter, in electrical contact with the vital-sign monitor and global positioning system, receives the vital-sign and location-based data and wirelessly transmits these data through a conventional wireless network. A gateway software piece receives and processes the data from the wireless network and stores these data in a computer memory associated with a database software piece. The system also includes an Internet-based user interface that displays the vital sign data for both individual patients and care-providers.

A system for monitoring a patient's vital signs that features a vital-sign monitor including sensors for measuring from the patient at least one of the following vital-sign data: O₂ saturation, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, respirator rate, and blood glucose level. The system also includes a global positioning system that determines location-based data. A wireless transmitter, in electrical contact with the vital-sign monitor and global positioning system, receives the vital-sign and location-based data and wirelessly transmits these data through a conventional wireless network. A gateway software piece receives and processes the data from the wireless network and stores these data in a computer memory associated with a database software piece. The system also includes an Internet-based user interface that displays the vital sign data for both individual patients and care-providers.

A performance analysis support system is disclosed that provides one or more recommended solutions of a performance improvement project to management and the expected improvement benefit of each solution. The performance analysis support system guides a user through a detailed, consistent analysis process, helping organizational leaders accurately diagnose critical performance or productivity issues. Then, the performance analysis support system estimates the personnel and equipment requirements, time, costs, and return on investment associated with each solution generated based on the analysis results. In addition, the performance analysis support system provides management immediate access to ongoing and past analyses.

The present invention provides a technology called Pulse-Multiline Excitation or PME. This technology provides a novel approach to fluorescence detection with application for high-throughput identification of informative SNPs, which could lead to more accurate diagnosis of inherited disease, better prognosis of risk susceptibilities, or identification of sporadic mutations. The PME technology has two main advantages that significantly increase fluorescence sensitivity: (1) optimal excitation of all fluorophores in the genomic assay and (2) “color-blind” detection, which collects considerably more light than standard wavelength resolved detection. Successful implementation of the PME technology will have broad application for routine usage in clinical diagnostics, forensics, and general sequencing methodologies and will have the capability, flexibility, and portability of targeted sequence variation assays for a large majority of the population.

The invention discloses a fault diagnosis and assessment method of an intelligent substation. The fault diagnosis and assessment method is characterized by including the specific steps that a fault diagnosis and assessment information model of the intelligent substation is constructed; fault and assessment indexes of a primary device, a secondary device and a network device in the intelligent substation are calculated on the basis of the fault diagnosis and assessment information model; a Petri net is used to perform primary fault diagnosis and assessment to the intelligent substation; and final diagnosis and assessment are performed by means of a distributed type expert system based on a knowledge base. The fault diagnosis and assessment method has the advantages of being clear in the diagnosis process, fast and practical in diagnosis methods and accurate and reliable in diagnosis results.

A portable dialysis access monitor device, comprising: an electronic monitor device and a server. The electronic monitor device includes a first microprocessor, an acoustic detector, a touch screen, a first storage device, a diagnostic programming module, an alarm device and a power supply device. The first microprocessor collects acoustic frequency signals, sound signals and thrill signals detected from a dialytic fistula. If signal difference is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the electronic monitor device provides a warning by the alarm device. The server includes a second microprocessor, a second storage device and a mobile internet. The server receives and analyzes the acoustic frequency signals, the sound signals and the thrill signals detected from the dialytic fistula by utilizing the second microprocessor to get an analyzed result. The server transmits the analyzed result to the electronic monitor device by utilizing the mobile internet.

An apparatus and a method of measuring a blood pressure of an examinee while detecting the body activity of the examinee uses a pressurizing unit of a blood pressure gauge having first and second driving modes for pressurizing a cuff. A central processing unit classifies signals, which represent the movement, the position, or the direction of the blood pressure gauge detected by a sensor installed in a body of the blood pressure gauge, into a plurality of groups, and selectively performs the first driving mode or the second driving mode according to signal bands classified into the groups. The central processing unit is configured to generate blood pressure data so that the variation in the blood pressure of the examine is exactly determined according to the activity degree and the posture of the examinee.

The invention provides an intelligent fault diagnosis method of a numerical control machine tool. The intelligent fault diagnosis method uses fault tree diagnosis as a base, faults are diagnosed by combining a Bayes probability and rule reasoning method, fault cause is found, and maintenance advices are proposed. The intelligent fault diagnosis method includes: firstly extracting fault information from historical maintenance records and machine tool operation instructions, and establishing a numerical control machine tool fault information knowledge base; searching fault trees belonging to a fault position in the fault information knowledge base according to fault characteristic information, calculating probability of occurrence of each fault tree under the current condition if a plurality of fault trees fit conditions, and determining sequence for diagnosing the fault trees according to size of the probability; and finally judging whether all sub-events of top events of the fault trees occur, returning to a fault treatment method corresponding to the events and serving as a solution if the sub-evens are bottom events of the fault trees, otherwise searching sub-events of the events continuously until finding all bottom events fit the fault characteristic information. The intelligent fault diagnosis method of the numerical control machine tool is rapid in diagnosis speed and accurate and reasonable in diagnosis result.

A method and an arrangement for creating an individualized, computer-aided model of a system, for determining physiological variables and/or parameters from clinical measurements and continuous measurements. Furthermore, one or more embodiments makes it possible to detect disease-related changes, to the heart in particular, and enables an improved medical interpretation of measurements by implant sensors. The system is not limited to physiological systems, and can also be used to monitor technical systems.

In an on-vehicle network diagnosis system, a master data storage stores master data, which includes reference connection information of a plurality of electronic control apparatuses with respect to an on-vehicle network. Current connection information of the plurality of electronic control apparatuses with respect to the on-vehicle network is obtained based on a response, which is transmitted from the plurality of electronic control apparatuses in reply to a response request. A validity of a connecting state of the plurality of electronic control apparatuses relative to the on-vehicle network is diagnosed by comparing the current connection information with the master data and thereby determining whether the current connection information matches with the master data.

In the failure diagnosis system of the present invention, the maintenance case information including data ambiguity and a partially deficient portion is utilized even in the case where maintenance case information having a high similarity is not sufficiently provided. The failure diagnosis system is provided with: a failure diagnosis rule creation unit 31 which, by utilizing maintenance case information accumulated in the past, creates a failure diagnosis rule used for listing up candidates of maintenance parts required for recovering the equipment from a failure phenomenon; a failure diagnosis execution unit 32 which, upon occurrence of a failure, outputs the candidates of maintenance parts required for recovering from the failure phenomenon to a maintenance work assist terminal with reference to the failure diagnosis rule; and a failure diagnosis rule updating unit 33 for updating the failure diagnosis rule, and the failure diagnosis rule creation unit 31 has a factor-information link creation unit, which creates links among pieces of factor information composed of pieces of information relating to the failure phenomenon, information relating to the subject component, and information relating to the corresponding treatment in the maintenance case information accumulated in the past.

An ultrasonic diagnostic system prepares a diagnostic data including image by transmitting ultrasonic pulses to a living tissue, and receiving and analyzing reflected wave of the ultrasonic pulses, and has an analytical processing unit to measure a backscattering intensity by using a scattering wave from a region of interest in the living tissue on a basis of the reflected wave which is received, and to detect a variation frequency of the measured backscattering intensity to obtain the diagnostic data to be available.

The present invention identifies and quantifies changes in gene expression associated with non-small cell lung cancer NSCLC by examining gene expression in tissue from normal lung and diseased lung. The present invention also identifies and quantifies expression profiles which serve as useful diagnostic markers as well as markers that are useful to monitor disease states, disease progression, drug toxicity, drug efficacy and drug metabolism.

A light emission section includes light generators which are operated on the basis of drive signals from a controller so as to emit near infrared interferable light beams having different specific wavelengths to a light interference section. The light interference section includes a beam splitter having a low-reflection region. The beam splitter allows a most portion of the near infrared interferable light beams to propagate toward an object to be examined, and reflects a portion of the near infrared interferable light beams to a movable mirror. The beam splitter causes interference between measurement light reflected by the object and reference light reflected by the movable mirror, and the resultant interference light propagates to a light detection section. The light detection section receives the interference light and calculates predetermined information regarding the object by making use of the quantity distribution of the interference light. A display section displays the calculated information.

The invention is an intelligent wean amblyopia and askant diagnosis and therapeutic apparatus made up of computer, monitor, keyboard, program sensor mouse, blue and red glasses and printer. The computer stores embedded vision function diagnosing software which can complete diagnosis of amblyopia and askant and therapy function. According to modern vision theory, it integrates several kinds of traditional therapeutic apparatus function with computer multi-media technology, realizes the integration of diagnosis, therapy and case recording. It applies to diagnosis of vision function of eyes such as eyesight, and contrast susceptibility. The product can diagnose and cure according to children in different age, the intelligent degree is high; it can upgrade the eyesight of children, improves the functions of eyes; it can carries on double-eye single-vision train before or after operation, solidifies the operation effect.

The invention relates to the field of application of combination of traditional Chinese medicine and computer technology, and discloses a system and a method for health status monitoring based on traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis information. The system comprises a mobile terminal; the mobile terminal is provided with an information acquisition device, an information processor and a display. The information acquisition device is used for acquiring multiple diagnosis information including face diagnosis, tongue diagnosis and inquiry. The information processor is used for calculating diagnosis results according to the multiple diagnosis information. The display is used for displaying diagnosis records including the diagnosis information and the diagnosis results. Therefore, users can learn their own health conditions at any time conveniently by the traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis method. The invention further provides the method for health status monitoring based on traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis information.

The invention features methods and compositions for diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with decreased nitric oxide bioavailability, such as a condition associated with elevated arginase activity, using an arginine- and/or arginase-inhibitor based therapy, which therapies include administration of arginine or an arginase inhibitor, either alone or in combination. The invention also contemplates administration of magnesium with arginine, an arginase inhibitor, or with arginine-arginase inhibitor combination therapy. The invention also features methods and compositions for diagnosis, including prognosis, of conditions associated with arginase activity by assessing the ratio of arginine to ornithine in samples from a subject.

A portable apparatus for determining testing the condition of a machine or device using ultrasonic signals with an array of ultrasonic sensors for receiving an ultrasonic signal transmitted from the machine or device. The apparatus possesses a heterodyne circuit coupled to receive the output signals from the ultrasonic sensors and convert the output signals to a heterodyned audio signal to be analyzed via a digital spectrum analyzer integral to the portable apparatus. The digital spectrum analyzer performs real-time fast fourier transformations on the heterodyned audio signal. After analyzing the signals, the hand held device uses a variety of audiovisual cues to direct a user to portions of the machine in need of repair or monitoring.

The invention discloses a power grid fault diagnosis method based on temporal Bayesian knowledge base (TBKB). The power grid fault diagnosis method comprises steps of establishing a corresponding temporal Bayesian knowledge base (TBKB) diagnosis model; clearly describing work principles and processes of relevant protectors and circuit breakers after elements are broken down; establishing a temporal causal relationship (TCR) among different action events; quantificationally expressing a successive restraint relationship among different action status nodes in the aspect of timing sequence; and identifying conditions of action events, time mark errors and the like of the abnormal protectors and the abnormal circuit breaks. Uncertain states of nodes and information loss nodes which do not pass TCR examination in alarm information are supposed and combined, so that a supposed state combination gather is formed, the fault probability of every supposed state combination is obtained, the fault probability of suspected fault elements is obtained, and fault elements are diagnosed. The protectors and the circuit breakers which operate mistakenly and fail to operate and the time mark error condition of the protectors and the circuit breakers are detected by forward reasoning of the TBKB modal to the fault elements. The total power grid diagnosis method is fast and accurate and is high in fault tolerance.

A battery condition diagnosis apparatus for a vehicle gradually supplies electricity to an electric motor 15 of an electric power steering apparatus 1 when a predetermined time elapses after an ignition switch 80 is turned off. The apparatus diagnoses the deteriorated condition of the battery 60 on the basis of the amount of supplied electricity and the detected battery voltage which changes in accordance therewith. The electric motor 15 may be a brushless DC motor. In this case, current is supplied to the electric motor 15 such that only d-axis armature current Id in the d-q coordinate system flows, to thereby prevent the electric motor 15 from rotating, whereby safety is secured. Accordingly, the condition of the battery can be accurately diagnosed by supplying electricity to the electric motor without changing the condition of the vehicle.

The invention discloses a remote intelligent family medical insurance method based on the integration of a wireless sensor network technology and a real-time monitoring technology, and mainly adopts the key technology in the WSN technology to grasp a context context-aware technology. By the comprehensive application of the technology, a medical monitoring platform facing the future is constructed.By the steps such as physical data collection, aggregation transfer, data mining and context reasoning, establishment of a joint knowledge base, generation of a medical insurance proposal, and re-configuration in accordance with a feedback instruction, and the like, a remote intelligent medical insurance is completed. The system can provide real-time convenient medical service for a patient who needs professional care of a doctor at any time and can ensure the safety of the patient to the great extent according to the information which is provided by the patient body and a surrounding sensor.

A system and method for cardiovascular exercise stress magnetic resonance using a MRI-compatible treadmill and real-time imaging. The treadmill comprises non-ferromagnetic components so that it may be used in proximity to a MRI scanner. The treadmill is positioned adjacent to the MRI scan table. A treadmill control system is used to control the speed and grade of the treadmill to allow it to perform a wide range of exercise protocols. Patients complete an exercise protocol on the treadmill and are then moved to the MRI scan table. Images are acquired as quickly as possible post-exercise to more accurately diagnose cardiovascular disease in patients.

The invention discloses a retinal fundus image bleeding detection method. A fundus image photographed by a color digital non-mydriatic fundus camera is utilized. The method adopts the following steps that (1) the size of an original image is adjusted; (2) the viewing field of the adjusted image is positioned; (3) bleeding and blood vessel areas based on double-scale background are crudely detected; (4) the blood vessels are detected; (5) a bleeding suspicious area is iteratively positioned; (6) feature extraction is performed on the bleeding suspicious area; and (7) classified detection is performed on the bleeding suspicious area, and the bleeding marked fundus image is generated. According to the method, the fundus image acquired under different acquisition conditions can be processed, the bleeding area can be rapidly and effectively detected and the bleeding site of the processed fundus image is visual and obvious so that further diagnosis is facilitated for ophthalmologists.

Provided are methods for the detection and diagnosis of sickle cell. The methods are based on the discovery that abnormal levels of selected analytes in sample fluid, typically blood samples, of patients who are at risk are supportive of a diagnosis of sickle cell. At least two new biomarkers for sickle cell are thus disclosed, Eotaxin and Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1. Altogether the concentrations of eleven analytes provide a sensitive and selective picture of the patient's condition, namely, whether the patient is suffering from sickle cell. Other important biomarkers for sickle cell are described, including but not limited to IL-12p40, SHBG, MMP-9, Adiponectin, Haptoglobin, FGF basic, IgM, Growth Hormone, Factor VII. Kits containing reagents to assist in the analysis of fluid samples are also described.

The invention discloses a PCR primer for detecting an African swine fever virus, a kit and application thereof, and belongs to the detection field of the African swine fever virus. According to a conserved region of an ASFV p72 gene on the GenBank, four pairs of primers are designed, the primer with strong specificity and high sensitivity is screened out from the four pairs of primers, and the primer is composed of nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID No.1 and SEQ ID No.2. The invention further discloses a kit prepared from the primer and used for detecting the African swine fever virus, and a corresponding PCR detection method is established. The detection method established by the invention is more specific and sensitive in comparison with two African swine fever virus PCR detection methods recommended by OIE; and the clinical sample detection result shows that the PCR detection method disclosed by the invention is simple in operation, low in cost, good in specificity and high in sensitivity, and can be effectively applied to the screening and fast diagnosis of the African swine fever.

The invention discloses a WSN information perception system and method for industrial equipment, agriculture, communication, storage, and living environment monitor. In the system, a wireless collector obtains the sensor data of industrial equipment or environment through corresponding sensor interfaces, then the processed data is sent to a wireless gateway through an ad-hoc network; a wireless controller controls execution equipment according to the received control commands and sends the state information to the wireless gateway; the wireless gateway uploads the received sensor data and the state information to a base station, and transmits the control commands from the base station to the wireless controller; and the base station processes and sends the received sensor data and state information to a local monitor terminal and sends the control commands from the local monitor terminal to the wireless gateway. The local monitor terminal can store and display the collected sensor data and emit the control command, and thus the information collection, wireless transmission, and control of industrial equipment and environment in an industrial scene can be achieved by the system.

The invention discloses an eye fundus image structure segmentation method based on full convolution neural network. The method comprises the steps of firstly marking the macula, optic disc and optic cup of each fundus image sample, and generating the corresponding target result map of each fundus image sample; then using each fundus image sample and corresponding target result map as a pair of training image samples to obtain the training image sample set; using the training image sample set to train the full convolution neural network, and inputting the fundus image to be segmented to the full convolution neural network to get the corresponding target result map; then using the K-means clustering and ellipse fitting to get the segmentation result. The method of the invention can improve the precision of the fundus image segmentation and better distinguish the normal physiological structure of the fundus.

The invention relates to the field of fault diagnosis and discloses an automobile fault diagnostic kit and a diagnostic system and a method. The diagnostic system comprises a diagnostic kit which is installed on an automobile, and an intelligent terminal device which is in wireless connection with the diagnostic kit, wherein the diagnostic kit comprises a diagnostic module, a wireless communication module, a control module and a storage module; the diagnostic module is electrically connected with a fault diagnostic interface of an automobile bus and used for obtaining automobile fault and state information; after the intelligent terminal device sends a diagnostic or inquiry command to the diagnostic kit, the wireless communication module sends the automobile fault and terminal information or historical fault information to the intelligent terminal device; and the intelligent terminal device receives the information for analyzing and processing the information and displays a processing result on a display screen. The invention also discloses an automobile fault diagnostic method. By implementing the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the automobile fault can be conveniently and quickly diagnosed; abundant maintenance guidance is provided; meanwhile, automobile fault history can be looked up.

The present invention discloses a spectrum information and image information fusing crop plant disease and insect pest identifying and distinguishing method. According to the present invention, the decision process comprising spectrum image acquisition, leaf background separation, pest injury spot region identifying, and plant disease and insect pest type diagnosis is provided, the image-spectrum-in-one advantage of the imaging spectrum technology is completely utilized, and the spectrum characteristic and image characteristic combining plant disease and insect pest distinguishing method is provided based on the spectrum, geometry and texture characteristics presented by the leaf injury position and respectively captured by the two dimensionalities such as the image and the spectrum; and with the method of the present invention, the limitation of the traditional method in the distinguishing and the diagnosis is overcome, and characteristics of rapid, non-destructive and accurate diagnosis on the plant disease and insect pest are provided.

The invention discloses a combined endoscope imaging system based on an OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) and an imaging method. The combined endoscope imaging system comprises an endoscope imaging device which is controlled by a computation control unit and is provided with an OCT imaging system and a photoelectric imaging or image guide optical fiber imaging system; the endoscope imaging device comprises a reference arm and an endoscope with a sample arm; the endoscope is internally provided with a plurality of channels; and each channel is internally provided with an OCT imaging probe, a photoelectric imaging probe or an image guide optical fiber bundle and a light guide fiber bundle. OCT imaging and photoelectric imaging or image guide optical fiber bundle imaging are combined to realize real video images on the surface and the periphery of a tissue of an observed position in real time and obtain a two-dimensional tomography image under a certain depth of the skin of the tissue at the position. A visible light source 2 also can be added to be coupled into the OCT imaging system so that an OCT imaging probe scanning light bundle is accurately positioned to a target region and the accurate positioning and scanning of a pathological change region of the tissue of a sample can be realized.