Abstract: A method provides a source of secondary imaging of an anatomical region of interest for use during a medical procedure. The method is based on acquiring in advance a set of reference images in a secondary imaging modality of the anatomical region over the course of movement of an object or body within the region. Different movement positions of the object within the reference images are indexed via measurement of displacement of a pre-defined reference point fixed relative to the anatomy of interest. This is measured using an ultrasound imaging probe which images the anatomical region simultaneously with the secondary imaging modality. The detected reference point position for each reference image is recorded along with each image frame. During the intervention, an ultrasound image probe is again used, preferably set up in the same position relative to the anatomy, and captures images of the same anatomy during the procedure.

Abstract: An update message from a first group of one or more clinical devices (802) is received over a communications network (504). The update message includes patient data and identifies a computer interpretable guideline (CIG) instance corresponding to a patient of the patient data. The CIG instance is updated (804) using the patient data and one or more CIG recommendations are determined (806) based on the updated CIG instance. The CIG recommendations are communicated (808) to a second group of one or more clinical devices over the communications network (504). Also disclosed, a narrative guideline is received from a guideline publisher and/or business entity (102) over a communications network (104). The narrative guideline is transformed to a computer represented guideline (CRG) abstractly representing the narrative guideline on the basis of usage. The translation includes linking text fragments in the narrative guideline to instantiated language constructs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing trickplay operations on a multimedia playback device is disclosed. When a trickplay request is received during regular multimedia playback, the appropriate frame for processing at a last processing means is determined in response to the trickplay request. The appropriate frame from a buffer is retrieved using meta data stored in the buffer which identifies the frame and the retrieved frame is processed. Meanwhile, a second appropriate frame in the stored multimedia content is selected for processing by a first processing means in response to the trickplay request. The second appropriate frame and subsequently selected frames are then processed so that the second appropriate frame is available to the last processing means when the last processing means has completed processing of the retrieved frame.

Abstract: A device (102) has software (116) that is arranged to operate at least partly under the control of configuration information (118).