448 results about "Real time visualization" patented technology

Devices, systems and methods useable for dilating the ostia of paranasal sinuses and/or other passageways within the ear, nose or throat. A dilation catheter device and system is constructed in a manner that facilitates ease of use by the operator and, in at least some cases, allows the dilation procedure to be performed by a single operator. Additionally, the dilation catheter device and system may be useable in conjunction with an endoscope and/or a fluoroscope to provide for easy manipulation and positioning of the devices and real time visualization of the entire procedure or selected portions thereof. In some embodiments, an optional handle may be used to facilitate grasping or supporting a device of the present invention as well as another device (e.g., an endoscope) with a single hand.

MRI-Surgical systems include: (a) at least one MRI-compatible surgical tool; (b) a circuit adapted to communicate with an MRI scanner; and (c) at least one display in communication with the circuit. The circuit electronically recognizes predefined physical characteristics of the at least one tool to automatically segment MR image data provided by the MRI scanner whereby the at least one tool constitutes a point of interface with the system. The circuit is configured to provide a User Interface that defines workflow progression for an MRI-guided surgical procedure and allows a user to select steps in the workflow, and wherein the circuit is configured to generate multi-dimensional visualizations using the predefined data of the at least one tool and data from MRI images of the patient in substantially real time during the surgical procedure.

The present invention comprises a multi-tier system. Major goals of the system are to 1) clearly visualize BGP dynamics and alert/report important deviation of BGP dynamics to avoid overwhelming the operators with too much information and 2) analyze the root cause of the problems by using a multi-tier approach, with a light-computational analysis and high-level classification for a real-time problem identification followed by a more rigorous off-line analysis for a further and more detailed trouble shooting. An example embodiment is provided that comprises four modules. The first module comprises a distributed family of collectors in charge of collecting real-time network information. The second module filters out non-relevant prefixes and extracts and profiles key features of the network information. The third module monitors BGP activity from both an Internet-AS and single-AS perspectives by displaying the data in real time and highlighting major shifts or divergence from historical baselines with comprehensive layouts. The forth module is run off-line to focus on a few relevant events that are selected through the first three modules. This is usually a time-consuming phase of the process due to the different temporal and/or spatial correlation that must be run across several sets of data. During this phase, the system can spend more time to better identify the real cause of the problem.

This invention is about engineering approach to development of transactional workflow applications and about ability of this way produced applications to concurrently process large number of workflow requests of identical type with high speed. It provides methods and articles of manufacture: for graphical development of fully executable workflow application; for producing configuration of class objects and threads with capacity for concurrent processing of multitude of requests of identical type for transactional workflow and for concurrent execution and synchronization of parallel workflow-activity sequences within processing of a workflow request; for application self-scaling up and self-scaling down of its processing capacity; and for real-time visualization of application's thread structures, thread quantity, thread usage, and scaling-enacted changes in threads structure and quantity.

Endoscopic poses are used to indicate the exact location and direction in which a physician must orient the endoscope to sample a region of interest (ROI) in an airway tree or other luminal structure. Using a patient-specific model of the anatomy derived from a 3D MDCT image, poses are chosen to be realizable given the physical characteristics of the endoscope and the relative geometry of the patient's airways and the ROI. To help ensure the safety of the patient, the calculations also account for obstacles such as the aorta and pulmonary arteries, precluding the puncture of these sensitive blood vessels. A real-time visualization system conveys the calculated pose orientation and the quality of any arbitrary bronchoscopic pose orientation. A suggested pose orientation is represented as an icon within a virtual rendering of the patient's airway tree or other structure. The location and orientation of the icon indicates the suggested pose orientation to which the physician should align during the procedure.

A method is provided for arterial intervention on a patient that has the steps of obtaining digital image data of the patient's artery from a medical imaging system where the artery has lesions arising from arterial disease, generating a 3D model from this image data, registering the 3D model to an image of the artery that has been visualized in real-time upon an interventional system, navigating an angioplasty delivery system to the artery utilizing this registered 3D model, and using the angioplasty delivery system to treat the artery. Preferably, the digital image data is cardiac image data, the artery is a coronary artery, and the angioplasty delivery system is a stent and stent delivery system. In another aspect of this invention, it provides a system for arterial intervention that has a medical imaging system for obtaining digital image data of at least one of the patient's arteries, an image generation system for generating a 3D model from the image data, an interventional system for visualizing an image of the artery in real-time, a workstation for registering the 3D model to this image, and an angioplasty delivery system that can be navigated to the artery utilizing the registered 3D model.

Described herein are apparatus and associated methods for the generation of at least one user adjustable, accurate, real-time, virtual surgical reference indicium. The apparatus includes one or more real-time, multidimensional visualization modules, one or more processors configured to produce real-time, virtual surgical reference indicia, and at least one user control input for adjusting the at least one real-time virtual surgical reference indicium. The associated methods generally involve the steps of providing one or more real-time multidimensional visualizations of a target surgical field, identifying at least one visual feature in a pre-operative dataset, aligning the visual features with the multidimensional visualization, and incorporating one or more real-time, virtual surgical reference indicium into the real-time visualization. In exemplary embodiments, the apparatus and methods are described in relation to ocular surgery, more specifically capsulorrhexis.

The present invention is of a system and method for accurate cryoablation, useable to enhance a surgeon's ability to accurately cryoablate a selected cryoablation target and to limit cryoablation to that selected target. Presented are apparatus and method for accurately delimiting a cryoablation volume, for minimizing damage to tissues surrounding a cryoablation volume, and for real-time visualization of a border of a cryoablation volume during cryoablation. Also presented are a method for mildly heating tissues during cryoablation, cryoprobes operable to simultaneously cool first tissues while heating second tissues, and cryoprobes operable to cool tissues extending in a first lateral direction from those probes while not substantially cooling tissues extending in a second lateral direction from those probes.

Disclosed are medical probe devices and methods for use guiding of percutaneous probes during medical procedures. The probe devices include an ultrasound transducer housing having a passage therethrough configured to accommodate a probe. The devices can be utilized to guide a probe through the probe guide to a percutaneous target with real time visualization of the probe during the procedure. In addition, the devices can include a sterilizable shield including a sterile probe guide such that the transducer housing itself can be separated from a subject by a sterile barrier. The sterilizable shield can be a single-use shield that can prevent contamination and re-use of the shield. The devices can define a beneficial geometry conducive to use by a single operator that can be utilized for percutaneous targets near the skin surface and can enable excellent contact between the device and the skin surface of a subject.

A method is provided for treatment of heart failure having the steps of obtaining cardiac digital data from a medical imaging system utilizing an ECG gated protocol; generating a series of 3D images of a cardiac chamber and its surrounding structures, preferably the left ventricle and coronary sinus, from this cardiac digital data at select ECG trigger points that correspond to different phases of the cardiac cycle; registering these 3D images with an interventional system; acquiring ECG signals from the patient in real-time; transmitting these ECG signals to the interventional system; synchronizing the registered 3D images with trigger points on the transmitted ECG signals to generate a 4D image; visualizing this 4D image upon the interventional system in real-time; visualizing a pacing/defibrillation lead over the 4D image upon the interventional system; navigating the pacing/defibrillation lead utilizing the 4D image; and placing the pacing/defibrillation lead over the cardiac chamber at an appropriate site to treat the heart failure.

The invention discloses an unmanned plane autonomous flight cloud control system. The system comprises a ground control station, a cloud server, an unmanned plane device and an aerial photography device. Real-time autonomous flight of an unmanned plane involves establishment of a course planning control analysis module based on real-time information, the ground control station carries out preliminary automatic planning of a course by use of flight coordinate scope information, in case of low-attitude flight, aerial photography data acquisition is carried out on landform space information by use of the aerial photography device, the information is transmitted to the cloud server by use of a 4G network through the ground control station, three-dimensional real-time visualization space modeling of aerial photography data is carried out by use of a cloud processing technology, through combination with a DEM and space topology relation, real-time course correction is carried out on an unmanned plane task flight preliminary course, flight control signals are returned to an autopilot, and thus autonomous flight of the unmanned plane is realized.

Systems and methods for visualizing multiple volumes of three-dimensional data. A graphics card is used for voxel intermixing, pixel intermixing and image intermixing, which produces a final-combined image of the three-dimensional data in real time.

A method for displaying live video of a tooth identifies a tooth tissue region in a viewable image frame obtained from a video stream and processes pixel data within the tooth tissue region to identify a suspected caries site. Intensity values for pixels that correspond to the suspected caries site are modified and a highlighted viewable image frame is formed as a combination of the modified intensity values corresponding to the suspected caries site and other pixel values in the viewable image frame. The highlighted viewable image frame is displayed in video form.

An interactive tool is disclosed for visualizing performance data in real-time to enable adaptive performance optimization for an application running on a massively parallel computer system. The interactive tool may be used to visualize network congestion (and other) performance counters for an application as it runs on the parallel system in real-time. Further, a developer may use the interactive tool to experiment with various tuning options and optimization approaches on-the-fly.

The invention relates to a multi-rotor-wing automatic positioning detector used for a transmission line. A patrol nacelle of the detector is fixedly connected with a multi-rotor-wing micro air vehicle by a connection structure; a master control board is fixed on the airframe of the multi-rotor-wing micro air vehicle; a power supply module is fixed on the patrol nacelle; a crawling mechanism is formed by a power device fixed on a side arm of the patrol nacelle and idler wheels connected with the power device; the master control board controls the power supply module to supply power for a driving mechanism of the multi-rotor-wing micro air vehicle or the power device of the crawling mechanism; an infrared video camera and a visible light camera are arranged on the inner wall of the patrol nacelle; the visible light camera is used for shooting the transmission line and the ambient environments and transmitting the information of the shot images to a ground station system by the master control board in real time; and the infrared video camera is used for detecting faults of the transmission line and transmitting the fault information to the ground station system by the master control board in real time. The multi-rotor-wing automatic positioning detector can be used in fields, has the advantages of high working efficiency and good safety, and has a real-time visual patrol function.

The invention relates to a seamless visualization method for a three-dimensional virtual reality system and a geographic information system. The method comprises the steps that in a preprocessing stage, a three-dimensional model in the three-dimensional geographic information system is processed, and two-dimensional map symbols which are represented according to carpological standards are generated; in a real-time visualization stage of a three-dimensional geographic scene, in the process that a camera roams and observes the scene from near to far, a hierarchy selection technology is adopted to enable the three-dimensional model to conduct switching transition of multi-resolution level details from an exquisite layer to a rough layer until the roughest layer; with the distance between the camera and the three-dimensional model being further enlarged to a certain extent, the three-dimensional model is transited to a billboard through a Morph technology in a seamless mode and finally transited to the pre-generated two-dimensional map symbols in a seamless mode; the visualization process of the camera from far to near is opposite to the switching transition process from near to far. The seamless visualization method can achieve a seamless transition visual fusion effect, and meets the requirements of a user for multi-dimensional and polymorphous comprehensive perception and acknowledge of geographic information.

A managing and planning system of water resource information comprises GIS, CPU, I/O. storage and its water resource comprehensive management and plan device including unit for setting up lead in /storage /update, unit for generating basic data drawing, unit for generating special subject data drawing storage of water resource, analysis / calculation /evolution unit, image virtualized description unit and file management / query / call / output unit.

An surgical tilt-tag staple comprising an elongated joining member having a first end and a second end, a first tilt-tag joined to the first end of the joining member and a second tilt-tag joined to the second end of the joining member, each of the first and second tilt-tags normally aligned perpendicularly to the joining member, the tilt-tags bendable under resistance into a position substantially parallel to the joining member and returning to the normal position when resistance is removed, is used to attach a medical device to the inner mucosa of a gastro-intestinal tract of a patient using ultrasound real time visualization and a flexible endoscope. Tilt-tag staples constructed of nickel-titanium alloy are preferred. Removal of such tilt-tag staples can be facilitated by cooling a tilt-tag. Medical devices with an electrical lead can be implanted without conventional suturing by using one terminal tilt tag on the lead to implant it.

A multilevel multi-modal routing navigating method relates to a routing navigation, which is implemented by establishing a road central line node table and an arc section table, generating topology texts T1 and T2, inputting starting point S and destination D, reading road central line and traffic lane attribute data, and calculating optimal routes R1 and R2 based on T1 and T2; establishing actual traffic lane topological structure T3, and recording physical traffic lane ID, virtual traffic lane ID as well as associated starting point ID and destination ID; reading actual traffic lane attribute data, and calculating optimal route R3 based on T3; according to R1, generating a buffer area B1 with certain range d1 in a dynamic way, selecting out architecture set L1 in B1, expressing L1 in a 2D visible window, selecting out landmark architecture set L2 in L1, expressing L2 in the 2.5D visible window, according to the coordinate position of a driver, dynamically calling a buffer area B2 of d2, selecting real time visible landmark L3 containing L2 in B2, and dynamically calling in road traffic relevant facilities in B2.

A method to visualize, display, analyze and quantify angiography, perfusion, and the change in angiography and perfusion in real time, is provided. This method captures image data sequences from indocyanine green near infra-red fluorescence imaging used in a variety of surgical procedure applications, where angiography and perfusion are critical for intraoperative decisions.