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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7424370 | Computational method for identifying adhesin and adhesin-like proteins of therapeutic potential A computational method for identifying adhesin and adhesin-like proteins, said method comprising steps of computing the sequence-based attributes of a neural network software wherein the attributes are (i) amino acid frequencies, (ii) multiplet frequency, (iii) dipe... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7306560 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system including network access A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over networks, such as a telephone network or a computer network. The invention also includes a stand-alone ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300402 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297111 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7297108 | Disease management system and method including analysis of disease specific changes A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain heal... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7297129 | Bed-side information system An object of invention is to display necessary information on a screen and display predicted information obtained by predicting the progression of the necessary information. In a bed-side information system, a body information monitor 11 measures arterial blo... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7252090 | Selection of neurostimulator parameter configurations using neural network In general, the invention is directed to a technique for selection of parameter configurations for a neurostimulator using neural networks. The technique may be employed by a programming device to allow a clinician to select parameter configurations, and then progra... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7244230 | Computer aided diagnostic assistance for medical imaging Various attributes for medical CAD analysis used alone or in combination are disclosed, including: (1) using medical sensor data and context information associated with the configuration of the medical system to provide recommendations for further acts to be perform... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7210478 | Ventilator monitor system and method of using same Embodiments of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings include a system and method for monitoring the ventilation support provided by a ventilator that is supplying a breathing gas to a patient via a breathing circuit that is in f... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7184837 | Selection of neurostimulator parameter configurations using bayesian networks In general, the invention is directed to a technique for selection of parameter configurations for an implantable neurostimulator using Bayesian networks. The technique may be employed by a programming device to allow a clinician to select parameter configurations, ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7066173 | Medical ventilator and method of controlling same Embodiments of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings include a system and method for monitoring the ventilation support provided by a ventilator and automatically supplying a breathing gas to a patient via a breathing circuit th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7021310 | Proportional pressure assist ventilation controlled by a diaphragm electromyographic signal A closed loop system uses (a) the intensity of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG) for a given inspiratory volume; (b) the inspiratory volume for a given EMG intensity; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b); in view of controlling the level of gas flow, gas volume or g... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6953436 | Multi-modal cardiac diagnostic decision support system and method A method for extracting and evaluating features from cardiac acoustic signals includes the steps of obtaining a cardiac acoustic signal, extracting physiologically significant features from the cardiac acoustic signal using a neural network, analyzing the cardiac ac... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6931269 | Multi-domain motion estimation and plethysmographic recognition using fuzzy neural-nets Pulse oximetry is improved through classification of plethysmographic signals by processing the plethysmographic signals using a neural network that receives input coefficients from multiple signal domains including, for example, spectral, bispectral, cepstral and W... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6920878 | Proportional pressure assist ventilation controlled by a diaphragm electromyographic signal A closed loop system uses (a) the intensity of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG) for a given inspiratory volume; (b) the inspiratory volume for a given EMG intensity; or (c) a combination of (a) and (b); in view of controlling the level of gas flow, gas volume or g... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6909914 | Method for generating time independent images of moving objects A method for generating time independent images of moving objects with the image information being related to properties of the moving objects represented by sequences of digital images. The images are transformed into a series of space-time representations of the i... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6878119 | Method for reducing artifacts in a spatial measurement A method for artifact reduction in sonomicrometer obtained intracranial pressure measurements generally comprises isolating a component of a sonomicrometer waveform attributable solely to changes in intracranial volume by using a neural network or other nonlinear en... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6849045 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system including network access A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over networks, such as a telephone network or a computer network. The invention also includes a stand-alone ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6805668 | System and method for processing patient polysomnograph data utilizing multiple neural network processing A system and method for processing patient polysomnograph data are provided. An abstractor obtains raw patient polysomnograph data and generates a subset of the data to include selected factors, including data clusters. The subset of the patient polysomnograph data ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6796305 | Ventilator monitor system and method of using same The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring the ventilation support provided by a ventilator that is supplying a breathing gas to a patient via a breathing circuit that is in fluid communication with the lungs of the patient. The ventilator has... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6760468 | Method and system for the detection of lung nodule in radiological images using digital image processing and artificial neural network A method and system improve the detection of abnormalities, such as lung nodules, in radiological images using digital image processing and artificial neural network techniques. The detection method and system use a nodule phantom for matching in order to enhance th... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6748257 | Detection of ribcage boundary from digital chest image To prevent erroneous detection of a ribcage boundary from a chest image, an outer search limit point is decided with precision. A profile of smoothed pixel-value integrated averages in each of right and left lung field of the image is obtained, a threshold for each ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6735467 | Method and system for detecting seizures using electroencephalograms A method and a system are provided for detection of seizures by applying advanced numerical analysis techniques to digitized waveforms of an electroencephalogram (EEG) recording. In an embodiment, the advanced numerical analysis techniques implemented in the method ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6684188 | Method for production of medical records and other technical documents A computer implemented system for the production of medical records, legal documents and other frequently produced semi-technical documents. This is accomplished by generating an intelligent computer-guided interview and the use of serialized scriptable o... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6629930 | Pressure Holter that is self-programmable as a function of the monitored physical activity of the patient A blood pressure Holter system includes a pneumatic constriction sleeve to be worn on an arm of the user and includes a first sensor for acquiring systolic and diastolic values of arterial pressure of the user. A second sensor is carried adjacent a chest ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6609024 | Method of making a judgment on emotional positivity or negativity by detecting asymmetry of brain waves of left and right cerebral hemispheres A method of making a judgment on emotional positivist or negativity of a person, comprises the steps of obtaining asymmetry ratio between the brain waves of the left and right cerebral hemisphere measured in a given unit time by means of electrodes attach... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6572542 | System and method for monitoring and controlling the glycemic state of a patient Information derived from ECG signals and EEG signals may be employed in combination to reliably predict the onset, or to indicate the presence of, hypoglycemia in a human patient. In one embodiment, ECG and EEG signals are processed and the information de... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6553247 | Electrode belt of heart rate monitor An electrode belt of a heart rate monitor, the electrode belt comprising one or more electrodes for measuring the heart rate on the chest, an electronics unit for handling the information to be received from the electrode, a conductor for providing electr... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6540686 | Measurement relating to human body A heart rate measurement arrangement wherein the heart rate measurement arrangement comprises a calculating unit comprising a mathematical model arranged to form a person's energy metabolism level as an output parameter of the model using as input paramet... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6527713 | Automated diagnostic system and method including alternative symptoms Structure-based processing includes a method of diagnosing diseases that works by arranging diseases, symptoms, and questions into a set of related disease, symptom, and question structures, such as objects or lists, in such a way that the structures can ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6524241 | Automated diagnostic system and method including multiple diagnostic modes Structure-based processing includes a method of diagnosing diseases that works by arranging diseases, symptoms, and questions into a set of related disease, symptom, and question structures, such as objects or lists, in such a way that the structures can ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6503197 | System and method for detecting an action of the head and generating an output in response thereto A method of producing a control signal. The method includes the steps of sensing an air pressure pattern in or near an ear of a person, the air pressure pattern resulting from voluntary physical action of the person; and converting the air pressure patter... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6475143 | Automated diagnostic system and method including encoding patient data Structure-based processing includes a method of diagnosing diseases that works by arranging diseases, symptoms, and questions into a set of related disease, symptom, and question structures, such as objects or lists, in such a way that the structures can ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6468210 | Automated diagnostic system and method including synergies Structure-based processing includes a method of diagnosing diseases that works by arranging diseases, symptoms, and questions into a set of related disease, symptom, and question structures, such as objects or lists, in such a way that the structures can ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6450954 | Method of randomizing patients in a clinical trial A randomization mechanism for enabling randomization of a patient to one of two treatment options having different time-to-treatments is presented. Data is received for a patient experiencing symptoms of the type treatable by either of the two treatment o... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6443889 | Provision of decision support for acute myocardial infarction The present invention provides methods and apparatuses, which make use of at least one trained and tuned artificial neural network (16) to generate decision regions (32) in the n-dimensional space of n input variables associated with AMI. The set of measu... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6440067 | System and method for remotely monitoring functional activities A method for remotely monitoring and identifying Functional Activities performed by a test subject, the method including the steps of (a) extracting a given type of signals from each of a predetermined set of muscles of a control subject during the perfor... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6430430 | Method and system for knowledge guided hyperintensity detection and volumetric measurement An automated method and/or system for identifying suspected lesions in a brain is provided. A processor (a) provides a magnetic resonance image (MRI) of a patient's head, including a plurality of slices of the patient's head, which MRI comprises a multisp... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6385474 | Method and apparatus for high-resolution detection and characterization of medical pathologies The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the construction and/or use of multidimensional fields that can be used for high-resolution detection and characterization of features within objects. The multidimensional field is constructed fr... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6377832 | System and method for analyzing a medical image Disclosed is a system and method for determining a severity of a stenosis in a blood vessel depicted in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data set. The system comprises a neural network configured to calculate the severity of the stenosis in the blood ve... | 04/23/2002 |
