Abstract: A virtual stent placement apparatus, a virtual stent placement method, and a virtual stent placement program for preventing a stent from blocking a branch of a blood vessel in a case in which the stent is virtually placed in the blood vessel extracted from a medical image are disclosed.

Abstract: A method relates to generating and selecting in-flow control device design simulations.

Abstract: Accordingly, there are disclosed herein geologic modeling methods and systems employing reference-based inversion of seismic image volumes. An illustrative method embodiment includes: (a) obtaining a measured seismic image volume; (b) determining a reference seismic image volume based on a reference model; (c) deriving a synthesized seismic image volume from a geologic model; (d) detecting at least one geologic model region where the synthesized seismic image volume and the measured seismic image volume are mismatched; (e) finding a reference model region where the reference seismic image volume best matches the measured seismic image volume; (f) replacing content of the at least one geologic model region with content of the reference model region to obtain an improved geologic model; and (g) outputting the improved geologic model.

Abstract: Digital design of an area is provided by obtaining input parameters for designing the area, comparing the input parameters to a design profile for the user, in which the design profile indicates user preferences regarding design elements, identifying design element(s) to be included in digital design(s) for the area based on correlating the input parameters with design element(s) from the design profile, generating the digital design(s), each of which incorporates at least one of the identified design elements, and displaying a digital design for potential selection to guide designing the area.

Abstract: Identifying pathways that are significantly impacted in a given condition is a crucial step in the understanding of the underlying biological phenomena. All approaches currently available for this purpose calculate a p-value that aims to quantify the significance of the involvement of each pathway in the given phenotype. These p-values were previously thought to be independent. Here, we show that this is not the case, and that pathways can affect each other's p-values through a “crosstalk” phenomenon that affects all major categories of existing methods. We describe a novel technique able to detect, quantify, and correct crosstalk effects, as well as identify novel independent functional modules. We assessed this technique on data from four real experiments coming from three phenotypes involving two species.

Abstract: A system and a method are described for laying out components in a vehicle workspace. The method may comprise: receiving, as input, a plurality of components for a vehicle workspace; determining an optimization of a routing of a plurality of connections, each of which connect to at least one of the plurality of components; and providing an output indicative of the routing within the vehicle workspace.

Abstract: Method and system for brace designing. The method comprises the following steps: S1) fixing a subject requiring a brace; S2) acquiring skeletal image information of the subject; S3) determining an adjustment solution for implementing an adjustment with respect to the subject and a target state that is to be achieved ultimately; S4) adjusting the subject to alter the skeletal structure of the subject; S5) acquiring adjusted skeletal image information of the subject; S6) determining whether the skeleton of the subject has been adjusted to the target state; if yes, then terminating adjustment and entering step S7; if not, then returning to step S4; S7) acquiring the body surface three-dimensional shape of the subject having achieved the target state and recording information of the force applied by an adjusting head to the subject for use in manufacturing a corresponding brace; thus allowing the highly efficient designing of a brace.

Abstract: A contact problem for characterizing physical contact between two or more bodies is solved by receiving a level-set description of a geometry in a Cartesian grid comprising a plurality of cells. The geometry includes a boundary. Thereafter, the boundary is triangularized for each cell intersecting the boundary to result in a plurality of triangles. A surfacic Gauss integration rule is generated on each triangle using an interpolation of volumetric coordinates. Subsequently, a target point is computed for each Gauss point that corresponds to a projection of such Gauss point on a target surface. The computed target points are then used to integrate contact on the triangles. The problem can then be solved to compute a displacement field respecting contact conditions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of acquiring real-time parameter data from a pipeline, selecting relevant real-time parameters from the real-time parameter data, executing a plurality of equations using the selected real-time parameters as an in input, generating a model configured to simulate the pipeline in real-time based on an output of the plurality of the equations, and predicting at least one location of a column separation in the pipeline based on the model.

Abstract: A method of planning fiber paths for a composite ply of a composite layup includes determining a first unit vector field. The first unit vector field represents a first approximation of target directions to be followed by tow centerlines of the composite ply. The first unit vector field is determined based on a specified rosette direction, a surface approximation of a nonplanar contoured surface of an object to be formed, and a fiber angle distribution. The method also includes determining, based on specified angle deviation bounds and the first unit vector field, a second unit vector field. The second unit vector field represents a second approximation of the target directions. The second approximation has reduced in-plane curvature relative to the first approximation. The method further includes planning a fiber placement head path for forming the composite ply of the composite layup based on the second unit vector field.

Abstract: First FEA mesh model representing 3-D geometry of a carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRC) product/part, pre-forming fiber orientation and desired reference fiber direction at a particular location on the product/part are received. First FEA mesh model contains finite elements associated with respective material properties for carbon fibers and binding matrix. Pre-forming fiber orientation includes number of fibers and relative angles amongst the fibers. Pre-forming 2-D shape of a workpiece used for manufacturing the product/part is obtained by conducting a one-step inverse numerical simulation that numerically expands the first to a second FEA mesh model based on numerically-calculated structural behaviors according to respective material properties. Pre-forming fiber orientation is superimposed on the second FEA mesh model with the desired reference fiber direction being preserved.

Abstract: A computing device for searching floor plans selects a floor plan from a plurality of floor plans based on where different types of room objects are positioned by a user within an interactive workspace and how many of each different type of room object is included by the user within the interactive workspace, and outputs the floor plan to an output interface of the computing device.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media, of which the method includes calculating strains, stresses, or both resulting from pressure changes in a subterranean volume using a geomechanical model, determining one or more local correlations between pressure changes and changes in permeability, porosity, or both in the subterranean volume using the calculated strains and stresses, generating one or more compaction tables for the subterranean volume using the local correlations, calculating pressure changes in the subterranean volume by simulating fluid flow in the subterranean volume using a reservoir model, and modifying the reservoir model using the one or more compaction tables and the calculated pressure changes.

Abstract: Systems and methods for Bot automation lifecycle management are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for Bot automation lifecycle management may include: (1) receiving information on a proposed automation process; (2) using the information, calculating a complexity score, an automation time requirement, an automation cost, an automation efficiency, and a Bot requirement; (3) calculating a feasibility score based on the complexity score, the automation time requirement, the automation cost, the automation efficiency, and the Bot requirement; (4) generating a feasibility report based on the feasibility score; (5) exporting the proposed automation process to a build process; and (6) confirming the build process as complete and assessing an actual complexity score, an actual automation time requirement, an actual automation cost, an actual automation efficiency, and an actual Bot requirement.

Abstract: Interactive systems and methods are provided for designing and constructing fences or other structures supported by posts, including methods which enable users to design custom fence panels and be presented with dynamic visual representations of such custom fence panels.

Abstract: A method of designing a cooling circuit inside a mold that includes therein the cooling circuit that passes through an inlet and an outlet includes a control plane setting step, a reference plane setting step, an intersection line extraction step, and a circuit setting step. The control plane setting step sets a control plane that is perpendicular to the mold surface on the side which comes in contact with a material and that passes through the inlet and the outlet. The reference plane setting step sets a reference plane that is offset by a fixed distance from the mold surface to the inside of the mold. In the intersection line extraction step, an intersection line at which the control plane and the reference plane intersect is extracted. In the circuit setting step, the cooling circuit is set inside the mold along the intersection line.

Abstract: A focused-ultrasound or other procedure for treating a target within a tissue region can be planned iteratively by creating a treatment plan specifying a treatment location pattern and stimuli applied thereto, simulating the treatment, computationally predicting an effect of the simulated treatment, comparing the predicted effect against one or more treatment constraints (such as efficacy and/or safety thresholds), and, if a constraint is violated, repeating the simulation for an adjusted treatment plan.

Abstract: Electronic system level (ESL) design and verification of the present disclosure is utilized to provide an electronic simulation and modeling of function safety and fault management of an electronic device. A method for simulating a safety circuit includes providing an electronic architectural design to perform one or more functional behaviors of the electronic device in accordance with an electronic design specification. The method further includes modeling the safety circuit of the electronic architectural design and one or more other electronic circuits of the electronic architectural design that communicate with the safety circuit. The method further includes simulating, using the modeling, operation of the safety circuit while the electronic architectural design is performing the one or more functional behaviors. The method also includes determining whether the simulated operation of the safety circuit satisfies the electronic design specification.

Abstract: A multitude of equal elements is identified in a CAD model. An element is an entity, a feature, a grid, an entity reference, a feature reference or a grid reference. Equal elements comprise an identical element geometry. A regular grid of multiple repetition positions is determined based on insertion positions of equal elements of the multitude. A group of multiple equal elements of the multitude, which comprise an insertion position associated with a repetition position of the regular grid, is replaced in the CAD model with grid data. The grid data comprises a grid insertion position, element data, and element repetition data. The element data may be a pointer to an element definition comprising said identical element geometry. The element repetition data may comprise linearly independent vectors and a number of repetitions according to each vector. Compression and ergonomic subsequent user editing of the CAD model are achieved.

Abstract: A system for constructing an urban design digital sand table, the system includes the following modules. A sand table environment constructing module, configured to construct a digital environment of the urban design sand table. An element grading display module, configured to perform hierarchical management on urban design elements, and perform visual hierarchical display. A spatial indicator interpretation module, configured to articulate names, algorithms, and attributes for indicators in an indicator library of the urban design digital sand table. A spatial calculation tool module, configured to load a toolkit to calculate a selected range in the digital sand table. An offline data extraction module, configured to extract the data of the digital sand table so as to export two-dimensional or three-dimensional spatial data in an offline mode. A dynamic real-time editing module, configured to perform real-time editing operation on an urban digital design scheme loaded in the system.