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A method for compensating respiratory motion in coronary fluoroscopic images includes finding a set of transformation parameters of a parametric motion model that maximize an objective function that is a weighted normalized cross correlation function of a reference image acquired at a first time that is warped by the parametric motion model and a first incoming image acquired at a second time subsequent to the first time. The weights are calculated as a ratio of a covariance of the gradients of the reference image and the gradients of the first incoming image with respect to a root of a product of a variance of the gradients of the reference image and the variance of the gradients of the first incoming image. The parametric motion model transforms the reference image to match the first incoming image.
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A method (100) that provides image processing of X-ray images that is particularly effective for the alignment of stent images and that, ultimately, provides stent image quality enhancement.
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A method for enhancing stent visibility includes acquiring a set of image frames including multiple test frames. A set of measurement points uniformly distributed within an image of a stent is defined in the test frames. A local image context is defined around each measurement point. A non-rigid deformation field relating the local image contexts of the test frames to local image contexts of a reference image is calculated. The non-rigid deformation field is optimized by maximizing a similarity function between the local image contexts of the test frames and the local image contexts of the reference image. The optimized non-rigid deformation field is used to deform images of a stent in the multiple test frames and combine the non-rigidly deformed images of the stent from the test frames. An image frame with the combined image of the stents superimposed thereon is displayed.
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A method for segmenting intracranial aneurysms in digital medical images includes extracting a mesh representing a vessel surface from a volumetric digital image, the mesh comprising a set of points {pi} and edges {eij} respective points, and finding a set of binary labelings that minimizes an energy functional of the labelings and of shape descriptors of each point in the mesh, where the binary labelings segments an aneurysm from the surface by associating one of two labels with each point pi, where a label indicates whether an associated point is on a vessel or on an aneurysm, where the energy functional includes a unary potential term summed over all points that represent a posterior distribution of the labels over the points, and a pairwise potential term summed over all edges that represents neighborhood labeling relationships.
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Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules which encode heat-stable plant resistance polypeptides having NB-LRR structural motifs, where the LRR domain includes a sub-domain which confers heat-stability to a plant defense response. The invention further involves transgenic plants and transformed host cells that express these nucleic acid molecules and exhibit enhanced disease resistance over a wide range of temperatures.
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A method for vehicle detection and tracking includes acquiring video data including a plurality of frames, comparing a first frame of the acquired video data against a set of one or more vehicle detectors to form vehicle hypotheses, pruning and verifying the vehicle hypotheses using a set of course-to-fine constraints to detect a vehicle, and tracking the detected vehicle within one or more subsequent frames of the acquired video data by fusing shape template matching with one or more vehicle detectors.
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A method and system for extracting coronary vessels fluoroscopic image sequences using coronary digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are disclosed. A set of mask images of a coronary region is received, and a sequence of contrast images for the coronary region is received. For each contrast image, vessel regions are detected in the contrast image using learning-based vessel segment detection and a background region of the contrast image is determined based on the detected vessel regions. Background motion is estimated between one of the mask images and the background region of the contrast image, and the mask image is warped based on the estimated background motion to generate an estimated background layer. The estimated background layer is subtracted from the contrast image to extract a coronary vessel layer for the contrast image.
摘要:
A method and system for extracting coronary vessels fluoroscopic image sequences using coronary digital subtraction angiography (DSA) are disclosed. A set of mask images of a coronary region is received, and a sequence of contrast images for the coronary region is received. For each contrast image, vessel regions are detected in the contrast image using learning-based vessel segment detection and a background region of the contrast image is determined based on the detected vessel regions. Background motion is estimated between one of the mask images and the background region of the contrast image, and the mask image is warped based on the estimated background motion to generate an estimated background layer. The estimated background layer is subtracted from the contrast image to extract a coronary vessel layer for the contrast image.
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A system to process requests for wafer structure profile determination from optical metrology measurements off a plurality of structures formed on one or more wafer includes a diffraction signal processor, a diffraction signal distributor, and a plurality of profile search servers. The diffraction signal processor is configured to obtain a plurality of measured diffraction signals of the plurality of structures. The diffraction signal distributor is coupled to the diffraction signal processor. The diffraction signal processor is configured to transmit the plurality of measured diffraction signals to the diffraction signal distributor. The plurality of profile search servers is coupled to the diffraction signal distributor. The diffraction signal distributor is configured to distribute the plurality of measured diffraction signals to the plurality of profile search servers. The profile search servers are configured to process in parallel the plurality of measured diffraction signals to determine profiles of the plurality of structures corresponding to the plurality of measured diffraction signals.
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A virtual map of vessels of interest in medical procedures, such as coronary angioplasty is created so that doses of contrasting agent given to a patient may be reduced. A position of a coronary guidewire is determined and locations of vessel boundaries are found. When the contrast agent has dissipated, virtual maps of the vessels are created as new images. The locations of the determined vessel boundaries are imported to a mapping system and an image obtained without using a contrast agent is modified based on the imported locations of vessel boundaries. This creates a virtual map of the vessels.