Abstract: A method for surgery planning is provided. The method may include: generating a surgery video displaying a process of a virtual surgery performed by a virtual surgical robot on a virtual patient based on a surgery plan relating to a robotic surgery to be performed on a patient by a surgical robot; transmitting the surgery video to a display component of an XR assembly used to render the surgery video for display to a user; recording one or more actions that the user performed on the virtual surgery based on user input received via an input component of the XR assembly; modifying the surgery plan based on the one or more recorded actions; and causing the surgical robot to implement the robotic surgery on the patient according to the modified surgery plan.

Abstract: A power management apparatus for a workflow to enable low power MR patient positioning on edge devices is disclosed. The power management apparatus changes an operational mode of an edge device from a first power mode to a second power mode after a defined time-interval. The power management apparatus further controls the edge device to capture a first image of a first scene. The power management apparatus further determines a trigger point based on a detection of a plurality of objects in the captured first image. The power management apparatus further changes the operational mode of the edge device from the second power mode to a third power mode to control a consumption of electric power while a set of operations is executed at the edge device. The operational mode of the edge device may be changed at the determined trigger point.

Abstract: Traditional ways of seeking and receiving healthcare services are time-consuming and cumbersome. A digital healthcare service platform built on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies may improve the experience and efficiency associated with these services. The digital healthcare platform may use AI models trained for image classification and/or natural language processing to generate preliminary diagnoses for a care seeker based on images or descriptions provided by the care seeker. The digital healthcare platform may also use AI models to match service providers with the care seeker, and/or manage the logistical aspects of a service (e.g., coordinating activities, scheduling appointments, etc.) for the care seeker.

Abstract: A system and method for visualizing anatomical structure of a patient during a surgery are provided. An anatomical image and a first optical image of a patient may be obtained. The anatomical image may be captured by performing a medical scan on the patient before a surgery of the patient, and the first optical image may be captured during the surgery. A target image may be generated by combining the anatomical image and the first optical image. The target image may be rendered based on a viewpoint of a target operator of the surgery. A display device may be directed to display the rendered target image.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for medical assistant. The systems may obtain position information of a target inside a subject during an operation. The systems may also determine depth information of the target with respect to an operational region of the subject based on the position information. The systems may further direct an optical projection device to project an optical signal representing the depth information on a surface of the subject.

Abstract: A corrosion-resistant nickel alloy is provided. The alloy includes the following components in percentage by mass: 4.68-5.35% of B, 5.69-6.41% of W, 27.68-28.39% of Cr, 12.65-13.42% of Al, and the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities. The corrosion-resistant nickel alloy is a Ni—W—B ternary alloy with main components of Ni, W and B, wherein the three elements have strong high-temperature corrosion resistance at a temperature of about 600° C., and have the potential of solid solution hardening and precipitate formation because all belong to solid solution forming elements, so that a creep strength of a nickel alloy matrix is improved. Meanwhile, Al and Cr are further added in the alloy formula, so that Al2O3 and Cr2O3 oxide layers can be formed, which play a role as a physical diffusion barrier against chlorine gas and other corrosive gases.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for surgical automation. The method may include: obtaining video data generated in a surgical process using a camera; identifying a surgical stage in the surgical process based on the video data; and triggering an activation of a surgical equipment used for a surgical operation and/or providing a guidance of the surgical operation based on the surgical stage.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with using an invertible neural network to complete various medical imaging tasks. Unlike traditional neural networks that may learn to map input data (e.g., a blurry reconstructed MRI image) to ground truth (e.g., a fully-sampled MRI image), the invertible neural network may be trained to learn a mapping from the ground truth to the input data, and may subsequently apply an inverse of the mapping (e.g., at an inference time) to complete a medical imaging task. The medical imaging task may include, for example, MRI image reconstruction (e.g., to increase the sharpness of a reconstructed MRI image), image denoising, image super-resolution, and/or the like.

Abstract: A method and a system for managing healthcare records of a user are provided. The method includes storing an electronic medical record related to the user in form of a non-fungible token (NFT) written to a blockchain, associating a smart contract to the NFT in the blockchain, authorizing a request to access the electronic medical record related to the user based on the defined ownership of the electronic medical record stored in the blockchain, identifying one or more NFTs from the blockchain comprising one or more electronic medical records related to the user based on processing of the identifier information in associated one or more smart contracts therewith, in response to the request, and sending the one or more electronic medical records corresponding to the identified one or more NFTs to a requestor associated with the request.

Abstract: Deep learning-based systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein for MRI reconstruction and/or refinement. An MRI image may be reconstructed based on under-sampled MRI information and a generative model may be trained to refine the reconstructed image, for example, by increasing the sharpness of the MRI image without introducing artifacts into the image. The generative model may be implemented using various types of artificial neural networks including a generative adversarial network. The model may be trained based on an adversarial loss and a pixel-wise image loss, and once trained, the model may be used to improve the quality of a wide range of 2D or 3D MRI images including those of a knee, brain, or heart.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and method for fetus monitoring. The method may include obtaining ultrasound data relating to a fetus collected by an ultrasound imaging device; generating a 4D image of the fetus based on the ultrasound data; directing a display component of a virtual reality (VR) device to display the 4D image to an operator; detecting motion of the fetus based on the ultrasound data; and directing a haptic component of the VR device to provide haptic feedback with respect to the motion to the operator.

Abstract: A non-invasive biometric system includes a processor that is configured to control a scanner, which is configured to scan and capture one or more anatomical images of a body of a target person. The processor is further configured to identify one or more anatomical structures in the captured one or more anatomical images and extract anatomical features for the identified one or more anatomical structures. The processor is further configured to register the extracted anatomical features for the identified one or more identified anatomical structures to a posture and an external appearance of the target person. The processor is further configured to encode and utilize the extracted anatomical features as biometric data, which is unique for the target person, and may be used for authentication of the target person.

Abstract: A system for providing rehabilitation in a virtual environment includes an extended reality (XR) headset to present a first rehabilitation therapy to a patient in a virtual environment. A sensing device is configured to track physical movements of the patient and a processor is configured to receive the sensing data to determine pose information. The processor is configured to determine a performance metric associated with the physical movements and compare the performance metric with a reference metric to determine whether the patient has successfully performed the defined physical movements. The processor is configured to change the first rehabilitation therapy to a second rehabilitation therapy based on a difference between the performance metric and the reference metric upon determining that the patient has unsuccessfully performed the defined physical movements. The system aids the patient by changing the rehabilitation therapies according to the performance of the patient.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with processing complex-valued MRI data using a machine learning (ML) model. The ML model may be learned based on synthetically generated MRI training data and by applying one or more meta-learning techniques. The MRI training data may be generated by adding phase information to real-valued MRI data and/or by converting single-coil MRI data into multi-coil MRI data based on coil sensitivity maps. The meta-learning process may include using portions of the training data to conduct a first round of learning to determine updated model parameters and using remaining portions of the training data to test the updated model parameters. Losses associated with the testing may then be determined and used to refine the model parameters. The ML model learned using these techniques may be adopted for a variety of tasks including, for example, MRI image reconstruction and/or de-noising.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with reconstruction of multi-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The reconstruction may be performed based on under-sampled MRI data collected for the multiple contrasts using corresponding sampling patterns. The sampling patterns and the reconstruction operations for the multiple contrasts may be jointly optimized using deep learning techniques implemented through one or more neural networks. An end-to-end reconstruction optimizing framework is provided with which information collected while processing one contrast may be stored and used for another contrast. A differentiable sampler is described for obtaining the under-sampled MRI data from a k-space and a novel holistic recurrent neural network is used to reconstruct MRI images based on the under-sampled MRI data.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and a method for configuring an IP device to be discoverable to a client device over a local network having a DHCP server for assigning dynamic IP addresses. The method includes obtaining a dynamic IP address assigned to the IP device upon completion of boot process for the IP device; checking if a static IP address has been set for the IP device; determining if the dynamic IP address and the static IP address are in a same subnet of the local network; implementing the static IP address set for the IP device, if the dynamic IP address and the static IP address are in the same subnet of the local network; and implementing the dynamic IP address assigned to the IP device, if the dynamic IP address and the static IP address are not in the same subnet of the local network.

Abstract: An unsupervised machine learning method with self-supervision losses improves a slice-wise spatial resolution of 3D medical images with thick slices, and does not require high resolution images as the ground truth for training. The method utilizes information from high-resolution dimensions to increase a resolution of another desired dimension.

Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with medical image enhancement. The medical image may include an object of interest and the techniques disclosed herein may be used to identify the object and enhance a contrast between the object and its surrounding area by adjusting at least the pixels associated with the object. The object identification may be performed using an image filter, a segmentation mask, and/or a deep neural network trained to separate the medical image into multiple layers that respectively include the object of interest and the surrounding area. Once identified, the pixels of the object may be manipulated in various ways to increase the visibility of the object. These may include, for example, adding a constant value to the pixels of the object, applying a sharpening filter to those pixels, increasing the weight of those pixels, and/or smoothing the edge areas surrounding the object of interest.

Abstract: A system for physiological motion measurement is provided. The system may acquire a reference image corresponding to a reference motion phase of an ROI and a target image of the ROI corresponding to a target motion phase, wherein the reference motion phase may be different from the target motion phase. The system may identify one or more feature points relating to the ROI from the reference image, and determine a motion field of the feature points from the reference motion phase to the target motion phase using a motion prediction model. An input of the motion prediction model may include at least the reference image and the target image. The system may further determine a physiological condition of the ROI based on the motion field.

Abstract: A method of characterizing a serum or plasma portion of a specimen in a specimen container includes capturing a plurality of images of the specimen container from multiple viewpoints, stacking the multiple viewpoint images along a channel dimension into a single stacked input, and processing the stacked input with a single deep convolutional neural network (SDNN). The SDNN includes a segmentation convolutional neural network that receives the stacked input and outputs multiple label maps simultaneously. The SDNN also includes a classification convolutional neural network that processes the multiple label maps and outputs an HILN determination (Hemolysis, Icterus, and/or Lipemia, or Normal) of the serum or plasma portion of the specimen. Quality check modules and testing apparatus configured to carry out the method are also described, as are other aspects.