Abstract: In a monitoring method for generating maintenance alerts, component IDs are extracted which identify medical imaging device components in electronic medical imaging device manuals (25, 26, 27, 28). Operating parameters of the medical imaging device components and associated operating parameter ranges are also extracted from the manuals, based on numeric values, parameter terms identifying operating parameters, and linking terms or symbols indicative of equality or inequality that connect the numeric values and parameter terms. The operating parameter ranges are formulated into decision rules (36) which are applied to log data (40) generated by a monitored medical imaging device (2) to detect out-of-range log data generated by the monitored medical imaging device. Maintenance alerts (24) are displayed on a display (18) in response to the detected out-of-range log data. The maintenance alerts are generated from out-of-range log data and are associated with component IDs contained in the out-of-range log data.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium (107, 127) stores instructions executable by at least one electronic processor (101, 113) to perform a component co-replacement recommendation method (200).

Abstract: An apparatus (100) for scheduling field service for a fleet of medical imaging devices includes at least one electronic processor (101, 113) programmed to maintain a service records database (140) storing information on instances of service tasks performed on the fleet including identifiers of service completion times for the instances of service tasks; identify one or more service tasks to be performed on a medical imaging device of the fleet based on content of one or more machine and/or service logs of the medical imaging device to be serviced; optimize a service plan (130) for the upcoming field service based at least on the one or more service tasks to be performed during the upcoming field service and service completion times for instances of the one or more service tasks to be performed in the service records database; and display the service plan on a display device (105).

Abstract: According to an aspect there is provided a computer-implemented method of monitoring performance of a predictive computer-implemented model, PCIM, that is used to monitor the status of a first system. The PCIM receives as inputs observed values for a plurality of features relating to the first system, and the PCIM determines whether to issue status alerts based on the observed values.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium (107, 127) stores instructions executable by at least one electronic processor (101, 113) to perform a component co-replacement recommendation method (200).

Abstract: A device for optimizing an image acquisition device (12) includes at least one electronic processor (20) operatively connected to read a machine log (30) of the image acquisition device. A non-transitory computer readable medium (26) stores instructions readable and executable by the at least one electronic processor to perform an image acquisition method (100). The method includes: extracting logged parameters of the image acquisition device from the machine log of the image acquisition device; identifying one or more out-of-range parameters of the image acquisition device from the logged parameters extracted from the machine log of the image acquisition device; automatically tuning one or more electrical or mechanical settings of the image acquisition device on the basis of the one or more out-of-range parameters to transform the image acquisition device into a tuned image acquisition device; and controlling the tuned image acquisition device to acquire one or more images of a patient.

Abstract: In a monitoring method for generating maintenance alerts, component IDs are extracted which identify medical imaging device components in electronic medical imaging device manuals (25, 26, 27, 28). Operating parameters of the medical imaging device components and associated operating parameter ranges are also extracted from the manuals, based on numeric values, parameter terms identifying operating parameters, and linking terms or symbols indicative of equality or inequality that connect the numeric values and parameter terms. The operating parameter ranges are formulated into decision rules (36) which are applied to log data (40) generated by a monitored medical imaging device (2) to detect out-of-range log data generated by the monitored medical imaging device. Maintenance alerts (24) are displayed on a display (18) in response to the detected out-of-range log data. The maintenance alerts are generated from out-of-range log data and are associated with component IDs contained in the out-of-range log data.

Abstract: A method (200) of converting a flowchart (110) to a structured electronic representation (116) of the flowchart includes: identifying, in an image (108) of the flowchart, a plurality of shapes (112) corresponding to flowchart blocks of the flowchart; identifying arrows (114) defining flow paths between the flowchart blocks in the image including identifying flowchart blocks connected by the arrows and their directionality; identifying text labels and their locations in the image and determining text content of the text labels; associating the text labels with flowchart blocks or defined flow paths based on locations of the text labels, flowchart blocks, and arrows; and generating the structured electronic representation of the flowchart based on the flowchart blocks, the flow paths, and the text labels. A structure of the structured electronic representation is determined at least based at least on the flow paths between the flowchart blocks of the image.