30 results about "Functional Map" patented technology

Software and apparatus are provided to automatically detect and map areas of complex fractionated electrograms within cardiac chambers. Electrogram signal are analyzed to count the number of complexes whose amplitude and peak-to-peak intervals meet certain criteria. Functional maps indicating average complex interval, shortest complex interval, and confidence levels are produced for display.

According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide method, system, arrangement, computer-accessible medium and device to stimulate individual neurons in brain slices in any arbitrary spatio-temporal pattern, using two-photon uncaging of photo-sensitive compounds such as MNI-glutamate and / or RuBi-Glutamate with beam multiplexing. Such exemplary method and device can have single-cell and three-dimensional precision. For example, by sequentially stimulating up to a thousand potential presynaptic neurons, it is possible to generate detailed functional maps of inputs to a cell. In addition, it is possible to combine this exemplary approach with two-photon calcium imaging in an all-optical method to image and manipulate circuit activity. Further exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include a light-weight, compact portable device providing for uses in a wide variety of applications.

Software and apparatus are provided to automatically detect and map ganglionated plexi that are found within areas of complex fractionated electrograms in cardiac chambers. Electrogram signal are analyzed to count the number of complexes whose amplitude and peak-to-peak intervals meet certain criteria. Functional maps indicating a spatial distribution of the ganglionated plexi and the relative numbers of complex fractionated electrograms are produced for display.

Software and apparatus are provided to automatically detect and map areas of complex fractionated electrograms within cardiac chambers. Electrogram signal are analyzed to count the number of complexes whose amplitude and peak-to-peak intervals meet certain criteria. Functional maps indicating average complex interval, shortest complex interval, and confidence levels are produced for display.

A new, inexpensive and non-invasive fetal visualization process helps to locate fetal body parts and identify fetal positions without exposing the fetus to prolonged ultrasound irradiation. Associating location data with biological electrophysiology signal patterns and / or light absorption / reflection-related tissue-specific local fetal body composition data enables the generation of a 3D anatomical and functional map of the fetal body through the expecting mother's womb, which will be essential for long-term home monitoring of a fetus during pregnancy.

Software and apparatus are provided to automatically detect and map areas of complex fractionated electrograms within cardiac chambers. Electrogram signal are analyzed to count the number of complexes whose amplitude and peak-to-peak intervals meet certain criteria. Functional maps indicating average complex interval, shortest complex interval, and confidence levels are produced for display.

The present invention discloses a method of overlaying Navigated Brain Stimulation (NBS) functional data on a live image of a brain. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a live image of a brain, obtaining a functional map of the brain comprising an anatomical model of the brain and NBS functional data associated with the brain, identifying at least one anatomical landmark of the brain from the live image of the brain, identifying at least one of said identified anatomical landmarks on the anatomical model of the brain, modifying the functional map so that the identified at least one anatomical landmark of the model corresponds in size and orientation to the corresponding at least one anatomical landmark in the live image of the brain, and digitally overlaying at least said NBS functional data on said live image of the brain according to the corresponding, aligned anatomical landmarks.

A method, an apparatus and a computer program for real-time generation of functional road maps. The method comprises obtaining a real-time input from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, that captures a front view of a road ahead of the vehicle and processing thereof by a neural network to generate a functional map of the road ahead of the vehicle. Each pixel in the functional map is associated with a predetermined relative position to the vehicle. A content of each pixel is assigned a set of values, each of which represents a functional feature relating to a location at a corresponding predetermined relative position to the pixel. The processing is performed without relying on a pre-determined precise mapping. The method further comprises providing the functional map to an autonomous navigation system of the vehicle, to autonomously drive the vehicle in accordance with functional features represented by the functional map.

An electrode module is positioned inside an intracranial portion of a human head. Then, it captures brain images of the human head so multiples two dimensional (2D) cross-sectional images are obtained. The electrodes can be seen in one or more 2D cross-sectional images. A brain functional map adjusting portion is provided to obtain the 2D cross-sectional images and then to conduct a proportional deformation process for the images in the brain functional map database. By combining the processed images in the brain functional map database and the 2D cross-sectional images, multiple combined cross-sectional images can be obtained for display. So, the effects of intracranial electrodes are better than the traditional way. In addition, the brain structure information of a patient contains the precise positions of the electrodes and the corresponding brain functional areas.

A transcranial brain map generation method, a transcranial brain map prediction method for group application and a corresponding transcranial brain map prediction device are provided. The transcranialbrain map prediction method includes the steps of: creating a craniofacial coordinate system at an individual level; establishing a transcranial mapping system for connecting the position of a skullwith the position of a brain; and constructing a transcranial brain map using a two-step stochastic process in a Markov chai. The transcranial brain map projects invisible intracranial map label information onto the visible scalp, allowing researchers or physicians to use the brain structures and functional map information to greatly enhance the effect of the brain map in the use of transcranial mapping techniques.

The present invention proposes a method for calculating, presenting, and combining probabilistic functional maps (PFMs) of the human brain representing the probability of structures existing. The method comprises three major steps: reading of data containing the coordinates of contacts, calculating the PFMs, and presenting the PFMs. The data can be read from a file in text or binary format or from a database as local or remote client. The PFM calculation comprises the following steps: forming 3D models of contacts, normalizing the contact models, voxelizing the contact models, calculating an atlas function, and calculating the PFM. The PFM can be presented alone or along with anatomical atlases. Both 3D and 2D interfaces can be used for presentation. The proposed method also includes different ways of combining the contact data and / or existing PFMs from multiple sources. This mechanism is the basis of an internet portal for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.

The present invention discloses a method of overlaying Navigated Brain Stimulation (NBS) functional data on a live image of a brain. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a live image of a brain,obtaining a functional map of the brain comprising an anatomical model of the brain and NBS functional data associated with the brain, identifying at least one anatomical landmark of the brain from the live image of the brain, identifying at least one of said identified anatomical landmarks on the anatomical model of the brain,modifying the functional map so that the identified at least one anatomical landmark of the model corresponds in size and orientation to the corresponding at least one anatomical landmark in the live image of the brain, anddigitally overlaying at least said NBS functional data on said live image of the brain according to the corresponding, aligned anatomical landmarks.

According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide method, system, arrangement, computer-accessible medium and device to stimulate individual neurons in brain slices in any arbitrary spatio-temporal pattern, using two-photon uncaging of photo-sensitive compounds such as MNI-glutamate and / or RuBi-Glutamate with beam multiplexing. Such exemplary method and device can have single-cell and three-dimensional precision. For example, by sequentially stimulating up to a thousand potential presynaptic neurons, it is possible to generate detailed functional maps of inputs to a cell. In addition, it is possible to combine this exemplary approach with two-photon calcium imaging in an all-optical method to image and manipulate circuit activity. Further exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include a light-weight, compact portable device providing for uses in a wide variety of applications.

A method, an apparatus and a computer program for real-time generation of functional road maps. The method comprises obtaining a real-time input from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, that captures a front view of a road ahead of the vehicle and processing thereof by a neural network to generate a functional map of the road ahead of the vehicle. Each pixel in the functional map is associated with a predetermined relative position to the vehicle. A content of each pixel is assigned a set of values, each of which represents a functional feature relating to a location at a corresponding predetermined relative position to the pixel. The processing is performed without relying on a pre-determined precise mapping. The method further comprises providing the functional map to an autonomous navigation system of the vehicle, to autonomously drive the vehicle in accordance with functional features represented by the functional map.

Intraoperative functional mapping using an intraoperative thermal imaging system is described. The system enables higher resolution images, faster acquisition speeds, and is non-invasive. The high resolution functional maps can provide physiologic information, prognostic information, and functional network structures to a neurosurgeon in a time efficient manner.

According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide method, system, arrangement, computer-accessible medium and device to stimulate individual neurons in brain slices in any arbitrary spatio-temporal pattern, using two-photon uncaging of photo-sensitive compounds such as MNI-glutamate and / or RuBi-Glutamate with beam multiplexing. Such exemplary method and device can have single-cell and three-dimensional precision. For example, by sequentially stimulating up to a thousand potential presynaptic neurons, it is possible to generate detailed functional maps of inputs to a cell. In addition, it is possible to combine this exemplary approach with two-photon calcium imaging in an all-optical method to image and manipulate circuit activity. Further exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include a light-weight, compact portable device providing for uses in a wide variety of applications.

A multi-functional map displayer is composed of an input interface, a display interface, and a transmission interface, wherein a longitude and latitude of a desired location can be entered on the input interface, and a signal of the entered longitude and latitude can be transmitted to internet through the transmission interface, such that a map of that location can be downloaded from the internet to the display interface, for displaying the map and other map-related data, allowing a user to save a memory space used for storing the complete map, and cost spent in purchasing map software of each place, and achieving purposes of providing the user to check, navigate, and ensuring a safe trip.

The invention discloses an intuitive multi-functional map projection teaching instrument and a realization method thereof. The instrument comprises an earth model, an LED point light source, a projection plate and a projection drawing pen. The Earth model is used to simulate the Earth sphere, which is a regular sphere and can be disassembled into two hemispheres, wherein the equatorial circle and0-degree longitude coil are the same size. The LED light source can be movably fixed at the earth model spherical center position or pole or any point outside the earth, which is used to characterizethe observation effect of different perspective point positions. A material of that projection plate is a transparent film, which can be use for drawing. In the actual design process, the instrument can be designed into conical, cylindrical, planar and custom projection panels, which can be cut according to the user's needs to achieve the desired projection effect. The invention has high flexibility by designing a separable simulated earth sphere and different types of light sources, and can fully compare and describe the characteristics and projection laws of different projection modes according to the imagination of the invention.

The invention is a method for constructing a whole-brain individualized brain function atlas with reference to an independent component network. The method utilizes the resting-state fMRI data of individual subjects, firstly introduces an independent component analysis method to construct a group-level brain function sub-network, and then Using spatiotemporal regression to inversely reconstruct the brain functional sub-network of each subject and the characteristic time series corresponding to the functional sub-network, and use the characteristic time series corresponding to the functional sub-network as a reference signal; introduce inverse distance weighting coefficients, sub-network inverse variation Coefficient weighting, correlation factor, and iterative process are used to obtain a whole-brain individualized functional map with the independent component network as the reference. This method has the advantages of being purely data-driven, completely corresponding to brain regions, covering the whole brain, and more flexible in functional brain region segmentation. tool.

The invention discloses a digital product library system, comprising: a function directory unit for displaying attributes of digital products, the attributes of the digital products comprising one or more of industry classification, system name, function view, architecture view, function click rate and system help document; the system map unit is used for judging the function repeatability of the digital product and the existing digital product according to the input function description of the digital product; the function map unit is used for uniformly carrying out clustering analysis on the functions of all the digital products to obtain distribution and activeness of various types of functions; and the function supermarket unit is used for displaying the digital products with functions as granularity and feeding back function link pages corresponding to the digital products. The problem of repeated construction of digital products is solved, useless or redundant digital products with low utilization rate in a digital product library system are eliminated, and meanwhile, digital product project declaration auditing is assisted, digital product project declaration is slimmed, and resource overhead is saved.

Software and apparatus are provided to automatically detect and map areas of complex fractionated electrograms within cardiac chambers. Electrogram signal are analyzed to count the number of complexes whose amplitude and peak-to-peak intervals meet certain criteria. Functional maps indicating average complex interval, shortest complex interval, and confidence levels are produced for display.

The present invention discloses a method of overlaying Navigated Brain Stimulation (NBS) functional data on a live image of a brain. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a live image of a brain, obtaining a functional map of the brain comprising an anatomical model of the brain and NBS functional data associated with the brain, identifying at least one anatomical landmark of the brain from the live image of the brain, identifying at least one of said identified anatomical landmarks on the anatomical model of the brain, modifying the functional map so that the identified at least one anatomical landmark of the model corresponds in size and orientation to the corresponding at least one anatomical landmark in the live image of the brain, and digitally overlaying at least said NBS functional data on said live image of the brain according to the corresponding, aligned anatomical landmarks.

The invention provides a deployment application scheme for the robot teaching walking and service execution. The scheme is divided into five parts of a manual module, a map construction module, a mapmanagement module, an automatic module and a normal state positioning function module. The manual module can provide a man-machine interaction manual control robot motion function, and the function needs to be used in the map building module; the map construction module needs a person to control the robot to move through tthe manual module, and the map data is constructed in the moving process; the normal state positioning function module can complete the real-time positioning of the robot according to map data, the functions of controlling and recording a route at the same time can be achieved in the manual module, and the map management module can modify the map constructed by the map construction module. The deployment application scheme is a software development and deployment framework independent of a sensor, an actuator and a human-computer interaction unit, and is suitable for most robots with fixed offline and fixed service logic, so that the development period can be greatlysimplified, and the on-site deployment is facilitated.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automobiles, and particularly relates to a design method of a vehicle-mounted multifunctional map. According to the design method, map mode selection isadded in map setting, namely a red envelope map, a delicious food map and a journey mnemonic map. According to the invention, a'map + 'is taken as a design concept, on the basis of the traditional map function, the functions of red envelopes, delicious foods, journals and the like are fused, an interaction form is customized, a vehicle-mounted multifunctional map product is created, and the intelligent and personalized map experience is improved; the problems that according to a traditional vehicle-mounted map, a user obtains positioning and navigation information only through navigation software, and although functions are practical, display content, interaction information and the like are relatively few are solved.