Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Quantification and imaging methods and system of the echo texture feature
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Application No.: US14558298Application Date: 2014-12-02
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Publication No.: US09773307B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: King-Jen Chang , Argon Chen , Chiung-Nein Chen , Kuen Yuan Chen , Yu-Hsin Wang , Kuo-Chen Huang
- Applicant: AmCad BioMed Corporation
- Applicant Address: TW Taipei
- Assignee: AMCAD BIOMED CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: AMCAD BIOMED CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: TW Taipei
- Agency: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06T7/40
- IPC: G06T7/40 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T7/41

Abstract:
The present invention provides quantification and imaging methods and a system of the echo-texture feature, comprising: obtaining an ultrasonic image; calculating all the pixel values in a selected ROI of the ultrasonic image to obtain a regional standard deviation; excluding pixels with a pixel value smaller than a multiple of the regional standard deviation in the selected ROI; counting a set of pixels centered around a Nth pixel to gather a Nth local mean, a Nth local variance and a Nth local coefficient of variance corresponding the set of pixel values, wherein N is from 1 to the number of the pixels remaining in the selected ROI; and obtaining an echo-texture index according to the local means, the local variances, or the local coefficient of variances. The imaging of echo texture which shows the echo texture distribution of the selected ROI with a color scale changing continuously from red to blue is also included. A parameter is provided to adjust the visualization enhancement of the echo texture.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150086095A1 QUANTIFICATION AND IMAGING METHODS AND SYSTEM OF THE ECHO TEXTURE FEATURE Public/Granted day:2015-03-26
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