Abstract: Creating a report from a radiological image using an electronic report template, the radiological image being an image of an anatomic region and the report template initially having empty fields includes displaying the radiological image on a screen of a workstation; providing a structural template, the structural template being a map of a reference region that corresponds to the anatomical region, t structural template identifying a plurality of anatomical landmarks each associated with corresponding landmark data; fitting the structural template with the radiological image such that the anatomical landmarks match corresponding anatomical landmarks of the radiological image; using the fitting to generate pathological data indicative of a pathology in one or more of the anatomical landmark and using the landmark data and pathological data to populate the empty field of the report template to thereby create the report.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods of use for a tissue retractor having a first retractor with a first main frame with a first distal blade and a second retractor having a second main frame with a second distal blade, the first distal blade and second distal blade being configured to engage each other on opposite sides of a spinal implant creating an expandable passageway p between the first main frame and second main frame.

Abstract: Continuous streams of multiple concurrent events are handled by a system using computation dependency graph. The computation dependency graph is derived from the mathematical concept of directed graph. The computation dependency graph has plurality of nodes representing typed or non-typed variables and arcs connecting from tail node to head node representing dependency of computation. The instance of a graph has plurality of node instances, and any node instance may be associated to external stream of event where a single event from the event stream changes the value of the node instance. The computation of a node is preformed when one or more of its tail node instance values are changed. The end result of the computation from tail to head makes the nodes connected by arcs to be coherent. The computation dependency graph has plurality of instance of the graph whose topology representing computation path may be reconfigured during the traversal of the node instances.