Method of Generating a 2-D Image of a 3-D Object
    1.
    发明申请
    Method of Generating a 2-D Image of a 3-D Object 审中-公开
    生成3-D物体的二维图像的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080246770A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-09

    申请号:US12064671

    申请日:2006-08-23

    IPC分类号: G06T11/20

    CPC分类号: G06T15/50

    摘要: There is described a method for generating a 2-D image of a 3-D object represented by a volume data set comprising a multiplicity of data points each having an opacity value. A plurality of notional rays are cast through the 3-D object and for each ray, a ray path is divided into a plurality of base sampling intervals defined by data points on the path. If it is determined that a difference in opacity values across a base sampling interval can become greater than a pre-determined value, successively smaller sampling regions are generated within the base sampling interval until it is determined that a difference in opacity values across each generated smaller sampling interval in the base interval is less than the pre-determined threshold. Values indicative of an interaction between the ray and the 3-D object in the sampling intervals along the path are accumulated using a direct volume rendering procedure to determine a pixel value in the 2-D image.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一种用于产生由包括多个数据点的体数据集合表示的3-D对象的二维图像的方法,每个数据点具有不透明度值。 通过3-D物体投射多个意向射线,并且对于每个射线,射线路径被划分为由路径上的数据点定义的多个基本采样间隔。 如果确定跨基准采样间隔的不透明度值的差异可能变得大于预定值,则在基本采样间隔内产生相继较小的采样区域,直到确定每个产生的不透明度值的差异较小 基准间隔中的采样间隔小于预定阈值。 使用直接体积绘制程序累积沿着路径的采样间隔中指示射线与3-D物体之间的相互作用的值,以确定2-D图像中的像素值。

    ANATOMY-RELATED IMAGE-CONTEXT-DEPENDENT APPLICATIONS FOR EFFICIENT DIAGNOSIS
    2.
    发明申请
    ANATOMY-RELATED IMAGE-CONTEXT-DEPENDENT APPLICATIONS FOR EFFICIENT DIAGNOSIS 审中-公开
    与解剖学相关的图像依赖性应用程序进行有效的诊断

    公开(公告)号:US20100293505A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-11-18

    申请号:US12376999

    申请日:2007-08-07

    IPC分类号: G06F3/048

    CPC分类号: G16H40/63

    摘要: The invention relates to a system (100) for obtaining information relating to segmented volumetric medical image data, the system comprising: a display unit (110) for displaying a view of the segmented volumetric medical image data on a display; an indication unit (115) for indicating a location on the displayed view; a trigger unit (120) for triggering an event; an identification unit (125) for identifying a segmented anatomical structure comprised in the segmented volumetric medical image data based on the indicated location on the displayed view in response to the triggered event; and an execution unit (130) for executing an action associated with the identified segmented anatomical structure, thereby obtaining information relating to the segmented volumetric medical image data. The action executed by the execution unit (130) may be displaying a name of the segmented anatomical structure, a short description of the segmented anatomical structure, or a hint on a potential malformation or malfunction of the segmented anatomical structure. Thus, the system (100) allows obtaining valuable information relating to the volumetric medical image data viewed by a physician on the display, thereby assisting the physician in medical diagnosing.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于获取与分段体积医学图像数据相关的信息的系统(100),该系统包括:显示单元(110),用于在显示器上显示分割的体积医学图像数据的视图; 指示单元(115),用于指示所显示的视图上的位置; 触发单元(120),用于触发事件; 识别单元(125),用于响应于触发的事件,基于所显示的视图上的指示位置来识别包含在所述分段体积医学图像数据中的分段解剖结构; 以及执行单元(130),用于执行与所识别的分段解剖结构相关联的动作,从而获得与分割的体积医学图像数据相关的信息。 由执行单元(130)执行的动作可以显示分割的解剖结构的名称,分割的解剖结构的简短描述,或对分割的解剖结构的潜在畸形或故障的提示。 因此,系统(100)允许获得与医生在显示器上观看的体积医学图像数据相关的有价值的信息,从而辅助医师进行医学诊断。

    MEDICAL IMAGE VIEWING PROTOCOLS
    3.
    发明申请
    MEDICAL IMAGE VIEWING PROTOCOLS 有权
    医学图像查看协议

    公开(公告)号:US20100135543A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-06-03

    申请号:US11815452

    申请日:2006-02-07

    IPC分类号: G06K9/62

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: A method, computer program and device for creating a viewing protocol for medical images is described. At least a first site of interest is identified in a medical imaging data set captured from the patient. Patient record data or computer assisted detection information can be used to identify the site of interest, which may be a potential lesion. A viewing protocol for displaying medical images to a user is planned. The viewing protocol includes a viewing path along which an image of the site of interest will be displayed. The viewing protocol also includes a trigger associated with the site of interest. When the trigger event is encountered the dynamic mode of image display is reconfigured to dynamically highlight the site of interest. The viewing protocol can then be used to control the display of images so as to provide, for example, a virtual endoscope.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一种用于创建用于医学图像的观看协议的方法,计算机程序和设备。 在从患者获取的医学成像数据集中识别至少第一感兴趣的位置。 患者记录数据或计算机辅助检测信息可用于识别感兴趣的位点,这可能是潜在的病变。 计划用于向用户显示医学图像的观看协议。 观看协议包括观看路径,通过该观看路径将显示感兴趣的场所的图像。 查看协议还包括与感兴趣的站点相关联的触发器。 当遇到触发事件时,重新配置图像显示的动态模式以动态突出显示感兴趣的站点。 然后可以使用观看协议来控制图像的显示,以便提供例如虚拟内窥镜。

    Method For Displaying High Resolution Image Data Together With Time-Varying Low Resolution Image Data
    4.
    发明申请
    Method For Displaying High Resolution Image Data Together With Time-Varying Low Resolution Image Data 有权
    用于随时间变化的低分辨率图像数据显示高分辨率图像数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080316226A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-12-25

    申请号:US12093762

    申请日:2006-11-16

    IPC分类号: G06T3/40 G06T15/10

    CPC分类号: G06T15/10

    摘要: A method allowing display of time-varying merged high resolution and low resolution image data with a smooth frame rate. In one embodiment the high resolution data is structural image data and the low resolution image data is functional image data. The functional image data is gathered (20) into groups and each group is rendered and merged (24) together. The merged images produced are then stored (28) in a First In First Out (FIFO) buffer for display. While the merged images are displayed the next set of functional image data is merged and rendered and supplied to the FIFO buffer, allowing a smooth frame rate to be achieved. A computer program and a medical imaging apparatus using the method are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 允许以平滑的帧速率显示时变合并的高分辨率和低分辨率图像数据的方法。 在一个实施例中,高分辨率数据是结构图像数据,低分辨率图像数据是功能图像数据。 将功能图像数据(20)收集到组中,并且将每个组渲染并合并(24)在一起。 然后将所生成的合并图像(28)存储在先进先出(FIFO)缓冲器中用于显示。 当显示合并的图像时,下一组功能图像数据被合并并呈现并提供给FIFO缓冲器,从而允许实现平滑的帧速率。 还公开了一种使用该方法的计算机程序和医学成像设备。

    Direct Volume Rendering with Shading
    5.
    发明申请
    Direct Volume Rendering with Shading 审中-公开
    直接体积渲染与阴影

    公开(公告)号:US20070299639A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-12-27

    申请号:US11573795

    申请日:2005-07-27

    IPC分类号: G06F7/60

    CPC分类号: G06T15/40 G06T15/06

    摘要: The present invention relates to direct volume rendering based on a light model applied to a 3D array of information data samples. Gradients are first estimated for the individuals samples, and a simple shading is done on the samples with low gradient, i.e. homogenous areas.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及基于应用于信息数据样本的3D阵列的光模型的直接体绘制。 首先对个体样本估计渐变,并且对具有低梯度(即均匀区域)的样品进行简单的阴影。

    Medical image viewing protocols
    6.
    发明授权
    Medical image viewing protocols 有权
    医学图像查看协议

    公开(公告)号:US07889900B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-02-15

    申请号:US11815452

    申请日:2006-02-07

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00 A61B5/05

    CPC分类号: G06T11/001

    摘要: A method, computer program and device for creating a viewing protocol for medical images is described. At least a first site of interest is identified in a medical imaging data set captured from the patient. Patient record data or computer assisted detection information can be used to identify the site of interest, which may be a potential lesion. A viewing protocol for displaying medical images to a user is planned. The viewing protocol includes a viewing path along which an image of the site of interest will be displayed. The viewing protocol also includes a trigger associated with the site of interest. When the trigger event is encountered the dynamic mode of image display is reconfigured to dynamically highlight the site of interest. The viewing protocol can then be used to control the display of images so as to provide, for example, a virtual endoscope.

    摘要翻译: 描述了一种用于创建用于医学图像的观看协议的方法,计算机程序和设备。 在从患者获取的医学成像数据集中识别至少第一感兴趣的位置。 患者记录数据或计算机辅助检测信息可用于识别感兴趣的位点,这可能是潜在的病变。 计划用于向用户显示医学图像的观看协议。 观看协议包括观看路径,通过该观看路径将显示感兴趣的场所的图像。 查看协议还包括与感兴趣的站点相关联的触发器。 当遇到触发事件时,重新配置图像显示的动态模式以动态突出显示感兴趣的站点。 然后可以使用观看协议来控制图像的显示,以便提供例如虚拟内窥镜。

    Method for displaying high resolution image data together with time-varying low resolution image data
    7.
    发明授权
    Method for displaying high resolution image data together with time-varying low resolution image data 有权
    用于显示高分辨率图像数据以及时变低分辨率图像数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US08363066B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-29

    申请号:US12093762

    申请日:2006-11-16

    IPC分类号: G09G5/00

    CPC分类号: G06T15/10

    摘要: A method allowing display of time-varying merged high resolution and low resolution image data with a smooth frame rate. In one embodiment the high resolution data is structural image data and the low resolution image data is functional image data. The functional image data is gathered (20) into groups and each group is rendered and merged (24) together. The merged images produced are then stored (28) in a First In First Out (FIFO) buffer for display. While the merged images are displayed the next set of functional image data is merged and rendered and supplied to the FIFO buffer, allowing a smooth frame rate to be achieved. A computer program and a medical imaging apparatus using the method are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 允许以平滑的帧速率显示时变合并的高分辨率和低分辨率图像数据的方法。 在一个实施例中,高分辨率数据是结构图像数据,低分辨率图像数据是功能图像数据。 将功能图像数据(20)收集到组中,并且将每个组渲染并合并(24)在一起。 然后将所生成的合并图像(28)存储在先进先出(FIFO)缓冲器中用于显示。 当显示合并的图像时,下一组功能图像数据被合并并呈现并提供给FIFO缓冲器,从而允许实现平滑的帧速率。 还公开了一种使用该方法的计算机程序和医学成像设备。

    Stripe-Based Image Data Storage
    8.
    发明申请
    Stripe-Based Image Data Storage 审中-公开
    基于条纹的图像数据存储

    公开(公告)号:US20080094406A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-24

    申请号:US11573369

    申请日:2005-07-25

    IPC分类号: G06T1/60

    CPC分类号: G06T1/60

    摘要: The present invention relates to a way of storing 3D images. The 3D image is composed of a stack of two-dimensional video data subsets represented by arrays of pixel data. Each array of pixel data is partitioned into a plurality of overlapping and adjacent vertical stripes of pixel data having a width at most equal to a cacheline of the memory. The upper most left stripe is stored first and each stripe is stored after the left adjacent stripe. When storing each stripe having multiple rows of pixel data, the upper row is stored first and the first pixel data of each subsequent row of the stripe is stored in a memory location coming after a memory location where the last pixel data of the preceding row in the stripe is stored.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种存储3D图像的方法。 3D图像由由像素数据阵列表示的二维视频数据子集的堆叠组成。 像素数据的每个阵列被划分成具有最多等于存储器的高速缓存行的宽度的像素数据的多个重叠和相邻垂直条带。 首先存储最左边的条带,并且每个条带存储在左边相邻条带之后。 当存储具有多行像素数据的每个条带时,首先存储上一行,并且条带的每个后续行的第一像素数据被存储在存储器位置之后的存储器位置中,其中前一行的最后一个像素数据在 条带被存储。

    Method for determining a physical property of an object, system, computer readable medium and program element
    10.
    发明授权
    Method for determining a physical property of an object, system, computer readable medium and program element 有权
    用于确定对象,系统,计算机可读介质和程序元素的物理属性的方法

    公开(公告)号:US09202271B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-01

    申请号:US13642565

    申请日:2011-04-18

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00 G06T7/00 G06T7/60

    摘要: A method and a system for determining a physical property of an object, e.g., a diameter value of an anatomical structure, employs local object context information for determining a local physical property of the object. The context information may be a known or determined cross-sectional shape of the object. In one embodiment, a processor may be configured to provide volumetric image information of the object having a three-dimensional structure; determine the physical property of the object along its three-dimensional structure; determine the object context information of the object; and visualize the object context information and the physical property on a display.

    摘要翻译: 用于确定对象的物理属性(例如,解剖结构的直径值)的方法和系统使用用于确定对象的本地物理属性的局部对象上下文信息。 上下文信息可以是对象的已知或确定的横截面形状。 在一个实施例中,处理器可以被配置为提供具有三维结构的对象的体积图像信息; 确定物体沿其三维结构的物理性质; 确定对象的对象上下文信息; 并可视化对象上下文信息和显示器上的物理属性。