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Provided herein is an electronic message management platform that enables management and execution of electronic message campaigns while appropriately managing challenges presented by spam filters, black lists, and domain blocking technologies, and that includes elements for managing an electronic message campaign based on dynamic conditions, quality measures, engagement factors, and other measures, factors and conditions.

A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images

The present invention comprises a user interface for systems and methods for sedation and analgesia delivery. The user interface receives input from a user of a sedation and analgesia delivery system and relays information regarding the system, the administration of sedation and analgesia, physiological conditions to the user in a context sensitive manner. The information relayed may be displayed to the user on a touch sensitive screen or multi-layer display device. The display may be segregated geographically or may be color coded on the display device where the geographic location and/or color of the displayed information relates further information to the user.

A document display device, comprising a memory arranged to store a document in the form of a sequence of pages; a display arranged to provide a user view of pages from the sequence; at least one user input device; a processor responsive to the at least one user input device to change the user view of the sequence of pages wherein said processor is arranged to allow reference markers to be associated with a page by a predetermined first input to the input device and further arranged such that a page associated with said reference marker can be at least partially displayed by a further predetermined input to the input device. Such an arrangement allows a one or more pages to marked as a block of pages, and the device allows a user to refer back to the pages at either end of the block.

A method and system for managing and evaluating commodities purchasing over a network of distributed computing devices. In one embodiment, the method allows a plurality of buyers to generate one request for quote and, response to the request for quote, receive a quote from plurality of vendors. The system of the present invention provides a price normalization routine that allows buyers to evaluate and compare a normalized price for commodity products having different evaluation parameters. In an arrangement comprising a plurality of computers connected to a network said plurality of computers including at least one server, at least one buyer client computer and a plurality of seller client computers, the method for providing commodities exchange services first provides a web-based browsable display describing at least one commodities exchange service. The system then receives at least one request for quote from the buyer. The system then receives at least one quote from different sellers, wherein each quote may have a different price and quantity listed. The system then compares to one or more selected metrics and normalizes the prices received from the different quotes, thus, allowing the buyer to readily compare the prices of a number of commodity items having inherently different values. In one embodiment, the system of the present invention also provides a method for multi-value cross compilation of sales transactions, iterative quote information, and metric data for purposes of evaluation and strategy analysis.

A method of orienting a virtual camera for rendering a virtual endoscopy image of a lumen in a biological structure represented by a medical image data set, e.g., a colon. The method comprises selecting a location from which to render an image, determining an initial orientation for the virtual camera relative to the data set for the selected location based on the geometry of the lumen, determining an offset angle between the initial orientation and a bias direction; and orienting the virtual camera in accordance with a rotation from the initial orientation towards the bias direction by a fractional amount of the offset angle which varies according to the initial orientation. The fractional amount may vary according to the offset angle and/or a separation between a predetermined direction in the data set and a view direction of the virtual camera for the initial orientation. Thus the camera orientation can be configured to tend towards a preferred direction in the data set, while maintaining a good view of the lumen and avoiding barrel rolling effects.

The invention discloses a testing method, a testing device and a testing system of application software on a mobile terminal. The method comprises the following steps of receiving an installation package of application software to be tested, which is uploaded by a client end, and an identification of a target mobile terminal to be tested; sending the installation package to the target mobile terminal and instructing the target mobile terminal to install the application software through the installation package; instructing the target mobile terminal to start the application software and traversing to trigger all controls in the application software and obtaining a screenshot of a display interface when the controls are triggered to obtain the display interface every time; returning a picture intercepted on the target mobile terminal to the client end. By using the method, the application software on the mobile terminal can be efficiently tested.

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.

The present invention is a biometric recognition method and system for identifying humans and animals with acoustic scanning techniques. The invention is based upon transmitting acoustic energy through an external accessible surface to non-visible internal tissue having a unique distinguishing characteristic. A master representative pattern of the unique distinguishing characteristic is produced by the interaction of an acoustic energy beam with discontinuities and inhomogeneities within the non-visible internal tissue. The master representative pattern is used for reference and compared to a current representative pattern formed upon each attempted reentry into the system.

In the present invention, an apparatus for behavior analysis and method thereof is provided. In this apparatus, each behavior is analyzed and has its corresponding posture sequence through a triangulation-based method of triangulating the different triangle meshes. The two important posture features, the skeleton feature and the centroid context, are extracted and complementary to each other. The outstanding ability of posture classification can generate a set of key postures for coding a behavior sequence to a set of symbols. Then, based on the string representation, a novel string matching scheme is proposed to analyze different human behaviors even though they have different scaling changes. The proposed method of the present invention has been proved robust, accurate, and powerful especially in human behavior analysis.

A Natural Language Product Comparison Guide Synthesizer that lets developers easily create web-based comparison guides for a given type of product. Each comparison guide will solicit users' product requirements, let them compare different products, and recommend one or more products based on their preferences. The guide uses automatically generated natural language to facilitate the comparison of products, and to convey and explain its recommendations.

A method for predictive maintenance of a machine includes collecting feature data for the machine which includes a plurality of feature vectors. At least some of the feature vectors are standardized to facilitate compatibility between different vectors. At least some of the standardized feature vectors are transformed into corresponding two-dimensional feature vectors. At least some of the two-dimensional feature vectors are clustered together based on operating modes of the machine. Similar steps are performed on additional feature data collected from the machine. Recently gathered two-dimensional feature vectors are compared to previously clustered feature vectors to provide predictive maintenance information for the machine.

The invention relates to one digital mobile communication technique suitable for one transmission base station monitor method and system based on wireless mobile terminal, which uses GSM communication network short message channel to sort monitor data and to transmit on focus degree, wherein, the alarm information and inquire information send by real time and the operation information without alarm sends method and process technique to form alarm guide base station monitor system by network monitor center, base station and other human cell phone network.

The invention relates to a system for visualizing, in a first bull's eye plot, results of a first quantitative analysis of an object represented in first image data, in particular for cardiac analysis. The first image data comprises a first plurality of data slices, and the system comprises a slice unit for associating a data slice of the first plurality of data slices with a concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, a radius unit for computing the length of a radius of the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, and a value unit for computing at least one value for displaying in the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, on the basis of the data slice associated with the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, and wherein the length of the radius of the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot is defined on the basis of the position of the data slice, of the first plurality of data slices, associated with the concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, with respect to the object. The dependence of the first bull's eye plot concentric ring radius on the position of the data slice associated with said concentric ring of the first bull's eye plot, with respect to the object, defines an objective framework for the first bull's eye plot, based on the geometry of the object. Thus, the results of the first quantitative analysis of the object visualized in the first bull's eye plot can be more easily compared with results of a second quantitative analysis of the same object represented in second image data visualized in a second bull's eye

A method and a data processing system for displaying a first document and a second document in a synchronized way are disclosed. The first document includes a first set of control tags. The second document includes a second set of control tags. A control tag of the first set of control tags is uniquely assigned to a control tag of the second set of control tags. A portion of the first document is displayed to a user, wherein a first control tag is identified in the first document, wherein the first control tag corresponds to the control tag of the first set of control tags which is situated in essence at the top of the displayed portion of the first document. Furthermore, a second control tag is determined in the second document, wherein the second control tag corresponds to the control tag of the second set of control tags to which the first control tag is uniquely assigned. A portion of the second document is then displayed simultaneously to the display of the portion of the first document to the user, wherein the second control tag is situated in essence at the top of the displayed portion of the second document.

Numerical image processing of two or more medical images to provide grayscale registration thereof is described, the numerical image processing algorithms being based at least in part on a model of medical image acquisition. The grayscale registered temporal images may then be displayed for visual comparison by a clinician and/or further processed by a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for detection of medical abnormalities therein. A parametric method includes spatially registering two images and performing gray scale registration of the images. A parametric transform model, e.g., analog to analog, digital to digital, analog to digital, or digital to analog model, is selected based on the image acquisition method(s) of the images, i.e., digital or analog/film. Gray scale registration involves generating a joint pixel value histogram from the two images, statistically fitting parameters of the transform model to the joint histogram, generating a lookup table, and using the lookup table to transform and register pixel values of one image to the pixel values of the other image. The models take into account the most relevant image acquisition parameters that influence pixel value differences between images, e.g., tissue compression, incident radiation intensity, exposure time, film and digitizer characteristic curves for analog image, and digital detector response for digital image. The method facilitates temporal comparisons of medical images such as mammograms and/or comparisons of analog with digital images.

The invention relates to a method for texturizing virtual three-dimensional objects, particularly virtual three-dimensional building objects and city models with a photographic image (1) of a real object, particularly of a picture of a façade. The method is characterized by the following steps: Projecting the photographic image (1) onto a virtual surface (2) of the virtual three-dimensional object to produce a raw texture; localizing a raw texture element (3) in the raw texture by using a classification method; computer-compatible description of the localized raw texture element by a formal feature set for the raw texture element, particularly a feature vector; comparing the formal feature set of the raw texture element with each feature set of predefined library elements (4), and determining degrees of similarity between the raw texture element and each library element; replacing the localized raw texture element with at least one library element when a predefined degree of similarity is present, and reshaping the raw texture into a generalized texture (5) of the virtual object by replacing all raw texture elements with library elements.

The invention discloses an automatic depth-image registration method, which comprises the following steps: proceeding triangularization method for depth image; transmitting point cloud data into triangle grid data; finding the boundary point in the depth image according to the triangle grid data; calculating the character value of non-boundary vertex in the depth image; extracting character point set with projected surface character; finding the mating relationship as corresponding point among character points of two depth images; finding at least three couples of corresponding vertex; calculating the estimating value of movement of two depth images according to the corresponding point; adopting modified ICP algorism to optimize the result; finishing the precise registration of two depth images. The invention improves the speed and precision of registration, which reduces the calculating quantity with simple course.