Abstract: A medical image data processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive medical image data; segment a body part included in the medical image data into multiple regions; refine or constrain the segmentation based on at least one plane to obtain a segmentation that includes at least one boundary or other feature having a desired property.

Abstract: A medical image data processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: receive medical image data; segment a body part included in the medical image data into multiple regions; refine or constrain the segmentation based on at least one plane to obtain a segmentation that includes at least one boundary or other feature having a desired property.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a hoop device comprising a tubular main body and lighting elements wherein the lighting elements are distributed on a circumference of the tubular main body and wherein some lighting elements face up and the remaining lighting elements face down. Furthermore, the tubular main body comprises a power supply unit for supplying the lighting elements with energy. In another aspect, the invention relates to a use of the hoop device characterized in that the power supply unit comprises storing means for storing energy wherein the storing means can be charged and re-charged.

Abstract: A database including a first graphical user interface adapted to create and store data objects, and a second graphical user interface adapted to define and store bidirectional text describing relations between related data objects. A third graphical user interface is adapted to view the data objects. Preferably, the third graphical is adapted to identify related data objects and display relevant parts of the bidirectional text with respect to related data objects in conjunction with visual indicia representing the related data objects. In another aspect, a computer implemented method is provided that stores data objects and textual annotations, each textual annotation corresponding to a given set of related data objects and describing relations between the given set of related data objects.