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Combinations of microfluidic diagnostic testing modules for simultaneous evaluations of serological and molecular biological targets are provided, and include panel testing for both antibodies (or antigens) and nucleic acid targets in one single-use device. These improvements are directed to evaluating the overall progress and activity of a pathogenic process in real time, at the point of care, not merely the presence or absence of a particular diagnostic marker, which can often be incomplete or misleading.

This invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for utilizing energy, e.g., optical radiation, to treat various dermatological and cosmetic conditions. A handheld dermatological device that facilitates viewing and measuring parameters of a treatment area before, during, and after application of a treatment modality, and methods of use therefor, are disclosed. The device can include a deflective device that can steer radiation to control a target position of the radiation. The device can also include a control device to allow a user to control the radiation through manipulation of the deflective device.

A method of performing intra-operative three-dimensional imaging and registering diagnostic functional information to the three-dimensional anatomical data is introduced. The availability of co-registered diagnostic information to intra-operative data enables fast and efficient navigation to pre-selected target areas, and allows automatic or semi-automatic treatment of cardiac cavity or vascular disease.

The invention relates to the field of elevators. In order to early discover and diagnose A elevator fault, the invention adopts the technical scheme that an elevator fault diagnosis and early-warning method based on data drive is achieved by means of a remote service center, a fault diagnosis and prediction terminal and an elevator controller, and the method comprises the steps as follows: firstly, elevator fault data are mined to obtain characteristic information in an elevator fault data stream, and the mined result is stored in an elevator fault case base of the fault diagnosis and prediction terminal; secondly, an elevator fault knowledge base on the fault diagnosis and prediction terminal is updated by the elevator fault case base; thirdly, the case retrieval is carried out on the characteristic of a new elevator fault problem, and the fault diagnosis is carried out on the elevator system by adopting the fault diagnosis method based on the case-base reasoning; and finally information with the characteristic that is most similar with that of the new elevator fault problem is acquired through retrieval of the knowledge or the case in the elevator fault knowledge base to solve the diagnosis problem. The method is mainly suitable for manufacturing and designing image sensors.

The present invention is directed to the use of antibodies or binding portions thereof, probes, ligands, or other biological agents which either recognize an extracellular domain of prostate specific membrane antigen or bind to and are internalized with prostate specific membrane antigen. These biological agents can be labeled and used for detection of normal, benign hyperplastic, and cancerous prostate epithelial cells or portions thereof. They also can be used alone or bound to a substance effective to ablate or kill such cells as a therapy for prostate cancer. Also disclosed are four hybridoma cell lines, each of which produces a monoclonal antibody recognizing extracellular domains of prostate specific membrane antigens of normal, benign hyperplastic, and cancerous prostate epithelial cells or portions thereof.

A computer (16) for capturing a colored moving image photographed by photographing means (14, 15) has an extraction means for extracting images having necessary swing postures as check-point images from a large number of still images constituting the color moving image; a means for obtaining a coordinate of a position of each of attention-focused points, which operate, in each of the check-point images, while a golfer (11) is swinging; a means for diagnosing a golfer's swing form by setting a plurality of diagnosis items for each trajectory pattern obtained by a ball motion measuring apparatus (20) to classify behavior of a golf ball and by comparing numerical data generated from data of the coordinate of the position of each of the attention-focused points with a judgement value set in each of a plurality of diagnosis items; and a means for outputting an advice drill corresponding to a result of a diagnosis.

It is intended to provide a method whereby a plural number of antibodies against cell surface antigens are quickly classified and to provide a method whereby antigens of the thus classified antibodies are quickly identified. Further, it is intended to provide a method of promoting the utilization of the useful data obtained by the above methods. Furthermore, it is intended to provide an antibody which is effective in treating or diagnosing cancer. Namely, a method of classifying antibodies which comprises: (1) the step of preparing a plural number of antibodies respectively recognizing cell surface antigens; (2) the step of bringing each of these antibodies into contact with a cell of the same species; (3) the step of analyzing each of the cells having been treated in the step (2) by flow cytometry and thus obtaining data indicating the reactivity of each antibody with its cell surface antigen; and (4) the step of comparing the thus obtained data and classifying the individual antibodies depending on the similarity. A method of identifying antigens which further comprises: (5) the step of selecting one to several antibodies from each antibody group formed in the step (4) and identifying antigens thereof; and (6) on the assumption that antigens of the antibodies belonging to a single antibody group are the same or highly related to one another, making relations between the antigens having been identified in the step (5) and the antibody groups to thereby identify the antigens. An antibody against HER1, an antibody against HER2, an antibody against CD46, an antibody against ITGA3, an antibody against ICAM1, an antibody against ALCAM, an antibody against CD147, an antibody against C1qR, an antibody against CD44, an antibody against CD73, an antibody against EpCAM and an antibody against HGFR, each obtained by using the above methods.

The invention provides a method for monitoring a vehicle that features the steps of: 1) generating a data packet including vehicle data retrieved from the vehicle using a wireless appliance; 2) transmitting the data packet over an airlink with the wireless appliance so that the data packet passes through a network and to a host computer system; 3) processing the data packet with the host computer system to generate a set of data; and 4) displaying the set of data on a web page hosted on the internet.

The present invention relates to a fully integrated sterilizable one time use disposable tissue visualization device and methods for using such devices. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate the visualization of an internal tissue site while causing a minimum of damage to the surrounding tissue. Further preferred embodiments may allow for the delivery of fluids and other treatment to an internal tissue site.

The present invention provides binding moieties for fibrin which have a variety of uses wherever detecting, isolating or localizing fibrin, and particularly fibrin as opposed to fibrinogen, is advantageous. Particularly disclosed are synthetic, isolated polypeptides capable of binding fibrin and recognizing the form of polymerized fibrin found in thrombi. In addition, the polypeptides have a slow dissociation rate from fibrin, which improves their ability to form a contrast image at the site of a fibrin clot, making the disclosed binding moieties particularly useful as imaging agents for thrombi.

An apparatus, including a memory or a database which stores an electronic healthcare record of or for an individual or a patient a comment, note, or message, in advance of a video call, and information regarding an appointment for or regarding the video call; a processor which generates an appointment message or reminder message containing information regarding the appointment and containing a link or hyperlink for initiating the video call, wherein the video call is initiated via the link or the hyperlink; a receiver which receives information regarding the individual or the patient during the video call, receives information input into or entered into a provider communication device or a user communication device, wherein the processor or a computer generates a report containing information regarding the video call; and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the report to the user communication device.

A blood sampling device useful for collecting a blood sample from a separate vascular access device is described herein. The blood sampling device includes a body shaped and sized for partial insertion into a separate vascular access device. The body includes a reservoir defined within the body, which has an internal volume sufficient to contain enough blood for use in a diagnostic blood test. The body also includes a gas permeable vent disposed on the body, in which the gas permeable vent is in gaseous communication with the reservoir. When connected to a separate vascular access device the blood sampling device collects a blood sample as blood flows into the reservoir from the separate vascular access device and as gases pass out the reservoir via the gas permeable vent.

The present invention is directed to the use of antibodies or binding portions thereof, probes, ligands, or other biological agents which either recognize an extracellular domain of prostate specific membrane antigen or bind to and are internalized with prostate specific membrane antigen. These biological agents can be labeled and used for detection of normal, benign hyperplastic, and cancerous prostate epithelial cells or portions thereof. They also can be used alone or bound to a substance effective to ablate or kill such cells as a therapy for prostate cancer. Also disclosed are four hybridoma cell lines, each of which produces a monoclonal antibody recognizing extracellular domains of prostate specific membrane antigens of normal, benign hyperplastic, and cancerous prostate epithelial cells or portions thereof.

Automatic fault diagnosis is performed on vibration data sensed from a machine. A set of faults to screen for is identified from the machine configuration. For each fault there are characteristic symptoms. For each characteristic symptom, there is a corresponding indication used to diagnose the symptom. The indications are based on analyses of the current vibration data. The diagnosed symptoms have weights assigned according to a Bayesian network, and are used to derive a Bayesian probability for the fault. A fault having a Bayesian probability exceeding a threshold value is identified as being present in the machine. For each fault a confidence level is derived. The confidence level for a first fault is based on a similarity between characteristic symptoms for the first fault and characteristic symptoms for each one of the other faults being screened.

A method for detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, and / or tracking of a disease includes providing analysis software configured to detect, quantify, stage, report, and / or track a disease utilizing images of a patient. The analysis software is executable on a personal computer of a patient. Patients are then imaged utilizing a medical imaging apparatus and medical images of the patient produced by the imaging apparatus are downloaded to the personal computer of the patient. The imaging and downloading are repeated a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide the analysis software with sufficient images to detect, quantify, stage, report, and / or track the disease in the patient.

An electronic endoscope system has a plurality of video-processors, a plurality of video-scopes, a selector, a monitor and an input device. The plurality of video-processors, the monitor and the input device are connected to the selector. Each of the plurality of video-processors processes image signals from the corresponding video-scope to obtain and output video signals to the selector. The selector selects one of the plurality of video-processors and feeds video signals from a selected video-processor to the monitor. The input device operates the selected video-processor.

A method for detecting, quantifying, staging, reporting, and / or tracking of a disease includes providing analysis software configured to detect, quantify, stage, report, and / or track a disease utilizing images of a patient. The analysis software is executable on a personal computer of a patient. Patients are then imaged utilizing a medical imaging apparatus and medical images of the patient produced by the imaging apparatus are downloaded to the personal computer of the patient. The imaging and downloading are repeated a plurality of times at intervals selected to provide the analysis software with sufficient images to detect, quantify, stage, report, and / or track the disease in the patient.

It is intended to provide an antibody efficacious in diagnosing, preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease, DNA encoding the antibody, a method of screening a drug and drugs. The amino acid sequence and the gene sequence of the variable region of an antibody, which specifically recognizes a GM1 ganglioside-bound amyloid β-protein occurring in the early stage of β-amyloid fibril formation, are determined. Based on the data of the amino acid sequence and the gene sequence thus obtained, an antibody is designed.

4,4-difluoro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5H-1-benzazepine derivatives, which have excellent arginine vasopressin V2 activity and are useful for a drug for the treatment of central diabetes insipidus and / or nocturia.

The invention relates to an electric equipment thermal fault diagnosis method and system and an electronic device. The method comprises the following steps: collecting an infrared image of electric equipment and constructing a convolutional neural network model on the basis of the infrared image; inputting a to-be-detected infrared image into the convolutional neural network model; identifying a temperature scale and electric equipment in the infrared image through the convolutional neural network model; generating an RGB value and temperature reference table on the basis of RGB values of pixels points of the identified temperature scale and upper and lower bounds of the temperature scale, extracting an RGB value of the identified electric equipment, comparing the extracted RGB value withRGB values in the RGB value and temperature reference table, and obtaining a temperature result of the identified electric equipment; carrying out diagnosis on the temperature result through a power grid system diagnosis standard, and determining whether thermal faults of the electric equipment occur. The electric equipment is identified in a highly efficient and accurate manner through the convolutional neural network model, the temperature is read accurately through the RGB value, and a power grid system is improved in intelligent level.

A method and apparatus for determining the presence or absence of a pulmonary embolism (PE) in a patient. The breathing gas CO2 partial pressure (PCO2) during the expiration of breathing gases by the patient, the end tidal (EtCO2), CO2 partial pressure, and the CO2 partial pressure (PaCO2) of the blood are measured. The volume (V) of breathing gases expired during the expiration of breathing gases by the patient is also measured and a relationship between changes in breathing gas CO2 partial pressure (PCO2) and changes in breathing gas volume (V) in an alveolar expiration phase of patient expiration is determined. The difference between the blood CO2 partial pressure (PaCO2) and the end expiration CO2 partial pressure is divided by the relationship between PCO2 and V produce a quantity which is compared to a threshold value. If the quantity is below the threshold value, the absence of a pulmonary embolism is indicated.

A three-dimensional ultrasonic image with which the positional relationship between tissues can be surely grasped is generated. Accordingly, an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and a projection image generating method according to the present invention acquire first three-dimensional image data and second three-dimensional image data, generate a first projection image on the basis of at least a part of the first three-dimensional image data and the second three-dimensional image data, and generate a second projection image on the basis of at least a part of the second three-dimensional image data and the first three-dimensional imaged data.

The invention discloses an analog circuit fault diagnosis method based on a Bayes-KFCM (Kernelized Fuzzy C-Means) algorithm, which comprises the following steps of: carrying out fault diagnosis by adopting a kernelized fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm and firstly judging whether a new fault exits in a test sample, if YES, a diagnostic model of a new fault sample is trained to join a diagnosis system, or else, the fault positioning is carried out on the test sample according to a Bayes fault classification standard. In the invention, the wavelet transform pretreatment is carried out on the fault sample, and the multi-feature fusion is carried out on the wavelet coefficient energy value and the wavelet coefficient fractal dimension value of the sample to extract fault characteristics; and the frequency of an optimal measurable node and / or a test signal is selected through taking a maximum class inter-class distance as a basis. Compared with the prior art, the analog circuit fault diagnosis method realizes that the analog circuit fault diagnosis method, the new fault of an analog circuit can be effectively diagnosed, and the diagnosis accuracy can be improved.

The present invention provides a blood flow image diagnosis device comprising: a laser beam irradiation system that irradiates an observation region of a body tissue with a laser beam; a light receiving system having a light receiver including a large number of pixels that detects reflected light from the observation region of the body tissue; an image capture section that continuously captures a plurality of images for a specified time that is one or more cardiac beats on the basis of a signal from the light receiver; an image storage section that stores the plurality of images; an arithmetic section that calculates a blood flow rate in the body tissue from the time variation of the output signal of each pixel corresponding to the plurality of the stored images; and a display section that displays the two-dimensional distribution of the calculation result as a blood flow map; wherein the blood flow image diagnosis device has a function for analyzing the blood flow map, the arithmetic section has a function that separates a blood flow of a blood vessel observed in a surface layer in the observation region of the body tissue from a peripheral background blood flow on the basis of a plurality of blood flow map data for a time that is one or more cardiac beats, and the display section has a function that distinguishably displays each blood flow on a blood flow map. The blood flow image diagnosis device has an additional function for diagnosing blood flow images as compared to a conventional device.

A remote maintenance and diagnosis apparatus for making a diagnosis of a remote client appliance comprises a data acquisition unit that acquires data necessary to diagnose the client appliance, a diagnosing unit that make an automatic diagnosis of the client appliance based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit, and an automatic diagnosis result reporting unit that reports a result of the automatic diagnosis to the client appliance.