METHOD FOR BREAST SCREENING IN FUSED MAMMOGRAPHY
    1.
    发明申请
    METHOD FOR BREAST SCREENING IN FUSED MAMMOGRAPHY 有权
    融合乳腺切片筛查方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130251103A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-09-26

    申请号:US13694836

    申请日:2012-11-30

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00

    摘要: A method for use in medical imaging of a patient including, with the patient immobilized with respect to an imaging reference frame, acquiring first digital imaging information including a first region of interest using a first imaging modality; processing the first digital imaging information to identify a feature for analysis; and using a second imaging modality to acquire targeted second imaging information for a second region of interest, the second region of interest corresponding to a subset of the first region of interest, wherein the second region of interest includes the feature for analysis. An apparatus for use in medical imaging comprising structure for immobilizing a patient with respect to an imaging reference frame; a first imaging system for acquiring first digital imaging information including a first region of interest using a first imaging modality; a processor processing the first digital imaging information using a diagnostic tool to identify a feature of interest; and a second imaging system for acquiring second imaging information using a second imaging modality, the second imaging information corresponding to a second region of interest including the feature for analysis.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于患者的医学成像的方法,包括:相对于成像参考系被固定的患者,使用第一成像模态获取包括第一感兴趣区域的第一数字成像信息; 处理第一数字成像信息以识别用于分析的特征; 以及使用第二成像模式来获取第二感兴趣区域的目标第二成像信息,所述第二感兴趣区域对应于所述第一感兴趣区域的子集,其中所述第二感兴趣区域包括用于分析的特征。 一种用于医学成像的装置,包括用于使患者相对于成像参考框架固定的结构; 第一成像系统,用于使用第一成像模态获取包括第一感兴趣区域的第一数字成像信息; 处理器使用诊断工具处理所述第一数字成像信息,以识别感兴趣的特征; 以及第二成像系统,用于使用第二成像模式获取第二成像信息,所述第二成像信息对应于包括用于分析的特征的第二感兴趣区域。

    Method for breast screening in fused mammography
    2.
    发明申请
    Method for breast screening in fused mammography 有权
    融合乳房X线照相术中乳房筛查的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20100111379A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-05-06

    申请号:US11632078

    申请日:2005-07-07

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    摘要: A method for use in medical imaging of a patient including, with the patient immobilized with respect to an imaging reference frame, acquiring first digital imaging information including a first region of interest using a first imaging modality; processing the first digital imaging information to identify a feature for analysis; and using a second imaging modality to acquire targeted second imaging information for a second region of interest, the second region of interest corresponding to a subset of the first region of interest, wherein the second region of interest includes the feature for analysis. An apparatus for use in medical imaging comprising structure for immobilizing a patient with respect to an imaging reference frame; a first imaging system for acquiring first digital imaging information including a first region of interest using a first imaging modality; a processor processing the first digital imaging information using a diagnostic tool to identify a feature of interest; and a second imaging system for acquiring second imaging information using a second imaging modality, the second imaging information corresponding to a second region of interest including the feature for analysis.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于患者的医学成像的方法,包括:相对于成像参考系被固定的患者,使用第一成像模态获取包括第一感兴趣区域的第一数字成像信息; 处理第一数字成像信息以识别用于分析的特征; 以及使用第二成像模式来获取第二感兴趣区域的目标第二成像信息,所述第二感兴趣区域对应于所述第一感兴趣区域的子集,其中所述第二感兴趣区域包括用于分析的特征。 一种用于医学成像的装置,包括用于使患者相对于成像参考框架固定的结构; 第一成像系统,用于使用第一成像模态获取包括第一感兴趣区域的第一数字成像信息; 处理器使用诊断工具处理所述第一数字成像信息,以识别感兴趣的特征; 以及第二成像系统,用于使用第二成像模式获取第二成像信息,所述第二成像信息对应于包括用于分析的特征的第二感兴趣区域。

    Automated method and system for the alignment and correlation of images
from two different modalities
    3.
    发明授权
    Automated method and system for the alignment and correlation of images from two different modalities 失效
    用于两种不同模式的图像对准和相关的自动方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US5974165A

    公开(公告)日:1999-10-26

    申请号:US523210

    申请日:1995-09-05

    摘要: A method and system for the computerized registration of radionuclide images with radiographic images, including generating image data from radiographic and radionuclide images of the thorax. Techniques include contouring the lung regions in each type of chest image, scaling and registration of the contours based on location of lung apices, and superimposition after appropriate shifting of the images. Specific applications are given for the automated registration of radionuclide lungs scans with chest radiographs. The method in the example given yields a system that spatially registers and correlates digitized chest radiographs with V/Q scans in order to correlate V/Q functional information with the greater structural detail of chest radiographs. Final output could be the computer-determined contours from each type of image superimposed on any of the original images, or superimposition of the radionuclide image data, which contains high activity, onto the radiographic chest image.

    摘要翻译: 一种用放射性图像计算机化注册放射线图像的方法和系统,包括从放射照相和胸部放射性核素图像生成图像数据。 技术包括在每种类型的胸部图像中轮廓化肺部区域,基于肺顶点的位置缩放和对准轮廓,以及在适当移动图像之后叠加。 给出了用于放射性核素肺扫描的胸部X光照片的自动登记的具体应用。 在给出的示例中的方法产生一个系统,其将数字化胸部X光片与V / Q扫描空间寄存和相关联,以便将V / Q功能信息与胸部X光片的较大结构细节相关联。 最终输出可以是来自叠加在任何原始图像上的每种类型的图像的计算机确定的轮廓,或者包含高活性的放射性核素图像数据叠加到放射照相胸部图像上。

    Data visualization enhancement through removal of dominating structures
    4.
    发明授权
    Data visualization enhancement through removal of dominating structures 失效
    通过去除主导结构来增强数据可视化

    公开(公告)号:US5832134A

    公开(公告)日:1998-11-03

    申请号:US757181

    申请日:1996-11-27

    摘要: The present invention provides a system for performing fast segmentation and image processing for enhanced three dimensional (3-D) visualization of a subject. The present invention automatically extracts unwanted dominant features from images while preserving the desired information. The present invention works especially well with Computed Tomography Angiograms (CTA) for viewing vasculature of a subject's head. Segmenting and removing dominant structures from image data permits visualization techniques such as maximum intensity projection (MIP), surface rendering and volume rendering, to provide enhanced vessel visualization.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供一种用于执行用于对象的增强的三维(3-D)可视化的快速分割和图像处理的系统。 本发明自动地从图像中提取不想要的显性特征,同时保留期望的信息。 本发明特别适用于用于观察受试者头部的脉管系统的计算机断层扫描血管造影(CTA)。 从图像数据分割和去除显性结构允许可视化技术,如最大强度投影(MIP),表面渲染和体积渲染,以提供增强的血管可视化。

    Digital image processing method for local determination of the center
and the width of objects in the form of contrasting bands on a
background
    5.
    发明授权
    Digital image processing method for local determination of the center and the width of objects in the form of contrasting bands on a background 失效
    数字图像处理方法,用于在背景上以对比色带的形式局部确定物体的中心和宽度

    公开(公告)号:US5768405A

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-16

    申请号:US721523

    申请日:1996-09-26

    摘要: Digital image processing method for local determination of the center and the width of objects in the form of contrasting bands on a background. A digital image processing method, for representation of objects in the form of contrasting bands of substantially uniform intensity on a substantially uniform background, includes a step for the identification of pixels situated on the central lines of the objects, which step is referred to as a "tracking" step. This method is characterized in that the step includes a first filtering operation which is executed by applying, to each image, a series of N lozenge-type-bidimensional, selective, recursive low-pass filters having respective ones of the principal directions angulary spaced apart 180.degree./N in order to determine the direction of each band-shaped object segment as that in which the response of one of the filters is maximum.

    摘要翻译: 数字图像处理方法,用于在背景上以对比色带的形式局部确定物体的中心和宽度。 一种数字图像处理方法,用于表示在基本上均匀的背景上具有基本均匀强度的对比带的形式的对象,包括用于识别位于对象的中心线上的像素的步骤,该步骤被称为 “跟踪”步骤。 该方法的特征在于,该步骤包括第一滤波操作,该第一滤波操作通过向每个图像应用一系列具有相应方向间隔开的主要方向的N个菱形二维低选择递归低通滤波器 180°/ N,以确定每个带状物体段的方向为其中一个过滤器的响应最大的方向。

    Automated method and system for region decomposition in digital
radiographic images
    6.
    发明授权
    Automated method and system for region decomposition in digital radiographic images 失效
    数字放射摄影图像中区域分解的自动化方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US5757953A

    公开(公告)日:1998-05-26

    申请号:US608899

    申请日:1996-02-29

    申请人: Ben K. Jang

    发明人: Ben K. Jang

    IPC分类号: G06K9/46 G06T5/00 G06K9/00

    摘要: A digital radiographic image is segmented into various regions and a region thereof is further decomposed into subregions, wherein digital image data is acquired and subjected to multiple phases of digital imaging processes. The region decomposition method first uses progressively smoothing techniques to generate smoothed regions at multiple scales. Next, the number of connected components at each scale is computed for each smoothed region. A shape spectrum, which is the number of connected components as a function of scale, is subsequently constructed to determine the most stable range of scales and the most stable number of subregions into which the region is decomposed. Each pixel is then classified into subregions, according to the geometrical relationship of the connected components detected at most stable scales. Finally, a decomposed map is generated to function as multivalued templates for any further image processing to be done on various decomposed subregions.

    摘要翻译: 数字放射线照相图像被分割成各个区域,并且其区域被进一步分解成子区域,其中获取数字图像数据并进行数字成像处理的多个阶段。 区域分解方法首先使用渐进平滑技术在多个尺度上产生平滑区域。 接下来,针对每个平滑区域计算每个刻度处的连接分量的数量。 随后构造形状谱,其是作为刻度的函数的连接分量的数量,以确定最稳定的尺度范围和该区域被分解成的最稳定的子区域数量。 根据在最稳定的尺度上检测到的连通部件的几何关系,将每个像素分类为子区域。 最后,生成分解的映射以用作用于在各种分解的子区域上进行的任何进一步的图像处理的多值模板。

    IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
    7.
    发明申请
    IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD 有权
    图像处理装置和图像处理方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140294301A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-02

    申请号:US14225445

    申请日:2014-03-26

    发明人: Eiichi NAGAOKA

    IPC分类号: G06T5/50 G06T5/30

    摘要: In the image processing apparatus, the control unit generates a plurality of divided regions by dividing the image in accordance with similarity calculated based on pixel values and pixel locations, and identifies a selection range constituted by one or more of the plurality of divided regions in accordance with the selection operation received by the input unit. The control unit performs erosion processing with respect to the selection range by reducing a number of pixels constituting the selection range, and performs dilation processing with respect to the selection range resulting from the erosion processing by increasing the number of pixels constituting the selection range resulting from the erosion processing. The number of pixels constituting the selection range resulting from the dilation processing is greater than the number of pixels constituting the selection range before the erosion processing.

    摘要翻译: 在图像处理装置中,控制部根据基于像素值和像素位置计算出的相似度来划分图像,生成多个分割区域,并根据该多个分割区域中的一个以上构成的选择范围 与输入单元接收的选择操作。 控制单元通过减少构成选择范围的像素的数量来进行相对于选择范围的侵蚀处理,并且通过增加构成由选择范围产生的选择范围的像素的数量来进行与侵蚀处理相关的选择范围的扩张处理 侵蚀加工。 构成从扩张处理得到的选择范围的像素数量大于构成侵蚀处理前的选择范围的像素数。

    Digital image processing method for automatic detection of stenoses
    10.
    发明授权
    Digital image processing method for automatic detection of stenoses 失效
    用于自动检测狭窄的数字图像处理方法

    公开(公告)号:US5872861A

    公开(公告)日:1999-02-16

    申请号:US771876

    申请日:1996-12-23

    摘要: A method of processing digital angiographic images which enables automatic detection of stenoses includes a tracking step for the identification of pixels or points situated on the central lines of vessels, and a step for the detection of stenoses by measurement of the intensity of pixels along the central lines of the vessels. The stenoses detection step includes a sub-step for deciding whether a pixel zone is a potential stenosis zone when the intensity of its pixels exhibits a local variation so as to assume an intermediate value between the intensity of the pixels to both sides of this zone and the intensity of the pixels of the image background, a sub-step for defining an icon around potential stenosis zones, and a sub-step for the extraction of the pixels of edges of the vessel segments in the icons.

    摘要翻译: 一种处理能够自动检测狭窄的数字血管造影图像的方法包括用于识别位于血管中心线上的像素或点的跟踪步骤,以及通过测量沿着中心的像素强度来检测狭窄的步骤 船只线。 狭窄检测步骤包括:当其像素的强度呈现局部变化以便呈现在该区域的像素与两侧的像素强度之间的中间值时,判定像素区域是否为潜在狭窄区域的子步骤;以及 图像背景的像素的强度,用于限定潜在狭窄区周围的图标的子步骤,以及用于提取图标中的血管片段的边缘的像素的子步骤。