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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080301156 | Method and System for Bi-Directionally Synchronizing Tracing Relationships Between A Requirements Repository and Textual Requirements Documents A method for bi-directional synchronization of tracing relationships between a requirements repository and textual requirements documents, including: in a first operating mode: gathering trace information from a requirements repository; and formatting the trace informat... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080294401 | Active Shape Model for Vehicle Modeling and Re-Identification A method for modeling a vehicle, includes: receiving an image that includes a vehicle; and constructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the vehicle, wherein the 3D model is constructed by: (a) taking a predetermined set of base shapes that are extracted from a subset ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080292164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COREGISTRATION AND ANALYSIS OF NON-CONCURRENT DIFFUSE OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE BREAST IMAGES A method for joint analysis of non-concurrent magnetic resonance (MR) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT) images of the breast includes providing a digitized MR breast image volume comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional (3D) grid of voxe... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080285831 | AUTOMATICALLY UPDATING A GEOMETRIC MODEL A computer implemented method for automatically updating a geometric model of an object of interest includes determining, automatically, a region of the geometric model for updating according to a update parameter, acquiring data at the region, extracting features from ... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080285829 | System and Method for Consistent Detection of Mid-Sagittal Planes for Magnetic Resonance Brain Scans A method for finding consistent mid-sagittal planes (MSPs) in a pair of 3D image head scans of a same patient includes, for each image, selecting a 2D transverse localizer image from a middle slice along a transverse view of the 3D image, fitting an ellipse to the trans... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080285830 | Computer Aided Lesion Assessment in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Breast MRI Images A method for performing computer-assisted lesion assessment includes acquiring contrast enhanced MRI data. A region of interest is identified. Kinetic properties, morphological properties and pattern of enhancement are determined for the identified region of interest. A... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080284781 | FUSED VOLUME RENDERING A rendering system having a customizable database of compositing rule tables that define how the input volumes are to be combined based on the their type, i.e. anatomical, functional, etc. The system also allows for the customization of the transfer function types assoc... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080273752 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE DETECTION AND TRACKING 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 hyp... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275467 | Intraoperative guidance for endovascular interventions via three-dimensional path planning, x-ray fluoroscopy, and image overlay A method for planning a path for an endovascular intervention includes acquiring and displaying 3D angiographic images; selecting a target on the displayed images; extracting a skeleton of a vascular tree from the displayed images; extracting a symbolic vessel path to t... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080275351 | Model-based pulse wave velocity measurement method A method for measuring pulse wave velocity through an artery. The method includes: obtaining an image of the artery; generating from the image a model of the artery; selecting two reference points along the artery, such two reference points being separated a predetermin... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080267471 | AUTOMATIC PARTITIONING AND RECOGNITION OF HUMAN BODY REGIONS FROM AN ARBITRARY SCAN COVERAGE IMAGE A recognition pipeline automatically partitions a 3D image of the human body into regions of interest (head, rib cage, pelvis, and legs) and correctly labels each region. The 3D image is projected onto a 2D image using volume rendering. The 3D image may contain the whol... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080270095 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE 4-DIMENSIONAL (4D) VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY A method of performing 4-dimensional virtual endoscopy includes acquiring a sequence of cardiac images of a patient's heart from an imaging device; acquiring an electrocardiographic signal exhibiting cardiac cycles of the heart; and utilizing the electrocardiographic si... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080267474 | Layer Reconstruction From Dual-Energy Image Pairs A system and method for layer reconstruction from dual-energy image pairs are provided, the method including: receiving a pair of dual-energy images, one having a relatively high energy dose and the other having a relatively low energy dose; ascertaining that a first re... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080260261 | METHOD FOR DETECTING OBJECTS USING FLEXIBLE EDGE ARRANGEMENTS A method wherein images of different types of objects within a class are partitioned into region stacks. For each one of the stacks, the method: (a) applies a template to extract fragments having a predetermined size and one of a plurality of different spatial orientati... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080260247 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY PRECOMPUTATION A method for interactive image segmentation includes receiving an image to be segmented, performing an offline computation of eigenvectors of a Laplacian of the image without using seed points, receiving seed points, and performing an online segmentation taking the seed... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080260221 | System and Method for Lesion Segmentation in Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Images A method for lesion segmentation in 3-dimensional (3D) digital images, includes selecting a 2D region of interest (ROI) from a 3D image, the ROI containing a suspected lesion, extending borders of the ROI to 3D forming a volume of interest (VOI), where voxels on the bor... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080255682 | Online Fault Detection and Avoidance Framework for Distributed Factory Control Systems An on-line fault detection and avoidance method is provided for industrial control systems that include multiple interacting process controllers. The method addresses the problem that not all faults can be determined and removed at the time of system design and testing.... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080247668 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATA A method for reconstructing three-dimensional, plural views of images from two dimensional image data. The method includes: obtaining two-dimensional, stereo digital data from images of an object; processing the digital data to generate an initial three-dimensional cand... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080247646 | METHOD FOR SEGMENTING AN IMAGE USING CONSTRAINED GRAPH PARTITIONING OF WATERSHED ADJACENCY GRAPHS A method for segmenting at least a pair of regions of an image, such method comprising: obtaining data of the image; computing watersheds of the image from intensity gradients of such image data; extracting a watershed region adjacency graph from the computed watersheds... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080249755 | Modeling Cerebral Aneurysms in Medical Images Methods and systems for modeling cerebral aneurysm and their incoming and outgoing vessels from 3D image data are disclosed. Aneurysms and vessels are segmented from their background using a graph-cuts method. Begin and end of vessels are determined. Construction of a c... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080240564 | Fast 4D Segmentation of Large Datasets Using Graph Cuts A method for segmenting at least a pair of regions of an image. High resolution data is obtained of the image. Each one of the pair of the regions in the image is marked. Graph cuts are used on the downsampled data to obtain first voxels along an outer boundary of a sel... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080226169 | ACCELERATED IMAGE VOLUME SEGMENTATION USING MINIMAL SURFACES GIVEN A BOUNDARY A method for image volume segmentation includes receiving an input image, obtaining an oriented closed contour on one or more slices of the input image, determining a minimum-weight surface from the oriented closed contour using a minimum-cost circulation network flow, ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080219536 | REGISTRATION OF CT VOLUMES WITH FLUOROSCOPIC IMAGES A method for registering images of multiple modalities includes acquiring first image of a subject using a first modality. A second image of the subject is acquired using a second modality. The first image includes greater structural detail of the subject than the secon... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080219498 | VISUAL DISCRIMINATION MODEL FOR SINGLE IMAGE APPLICATIONS A computer implemented method for applying a visual discrimination model for single image applications includes receiving an image, defining a plurality of regions of interest in the image including a first region located to contain a feature or object to be detected an... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080219570 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REMOTELY VISUALIZING IMAGES A method for remotely visualizing an image on a client includes the steps of rendering a 2D image from image data on a server, applying a 2D wavelet transform to the 2D image on the server to generate a plurality of sub-bands, identifying code blocks of the sub-bands th... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080208536 | System and Method for Automating the Analysis of Computer System Load Testing A method for analyzing load run test results of a computer system includes providing a plurality of performance measure sets derived from a first series of load run tests performed over a same time period, each the set comprising a plurality of records, each record havi... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080205720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT REAL-TIME TECHNIQUE FOR POINT LOCALIZATION IN AND OUT OF A TETRAHEDRAL MESH A method for determining whether a point is contained in a sub-volume of a digitized medical image, includes providing a tetrahedron volume mesh (TVM) representing a sub-volume of a digital image volume and a point M, finding a vertex P of said TVM that is closest to po... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080198161 | TISSUE STIFFNESS ASSIGNMENT A method for assigning stiffness values to voxels of an inputted discretized image includes assigning stiffness values according to intensity values of voxels of the image, wherein the inputted discretized image comprises the intensity values and refining the stiffness ... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080187199 | Robust Vessel Tree Modeling A method for extracting a local center-axis representation of a vessel, includes: placing first and second seed points in an image that includes the vessel, wherein the first and second seed points are placed near a beginning and an end of a centerline of the vessel; re... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080187198 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CELL ANALYSIS IN MICROSCOPY A computer implemented method for differentiating between elements of an image and a background includes inputting an image comprising pixels forming a view of the elements and a background, providing a model for assigning a probability of belonging to a predefined clas... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080183077 | HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND PATH DETERMINATION Paths are determined for high intensity focused ultrasound. A subset of possible paths is selected for the application of high intensity focused ultrasound. Obstructions (e.g., bone or metal), tissue characteristics (e.g., organ or tissue sensitivity to heat or attenuat... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080175459 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GUIDED TWO DIMENSIONAL COLON SCREENING A method and apparatus for guiding image reading for colon screening, includes calculating a centerline for a colon; scrolling through a succession of two dimensional (2D) cross-sectional images of a colon in respective image planes, such that a current image plane incl... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080171932 | Method and System for Lymph Node Detection Using Multiple MR Sequences A method and system for detecting lymph nodes in multiple complementary magnetic resonance (MR) sequences is disclosed. Anatomical landmarks, such as blood vessels, are extracted in a first MR sequence, such as an MR angiography (MRA) image. A search area is defined in ... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20080158253 | GENERATING A 3D VOLUMETRIC MASK FROM A CLOSED SURFACE MESH A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for generating a volumetric mask. The method includes providing a closed surface mesh, determining a discrete volume representation of the closed surface mesh, de... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080154565 | AUTOMATIC ORGAN DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNING AND CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS A method and apparatus of visually depicting an organ, having the steps of choosing a predefined set features for analysis, the predefined set of features having distinguishing weak learners for an algorithm, wherein the predefined set of features and the weak learners ... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080136817 | MODULAR VOLUME RENDERING USING VISUAL PROGRAMMING The rendering pipeline is divided into multiple components or modules in a scene graph based visual programming environment. Different stages of the rendering pipeline, such as data conversion, transform function, shading, and rendering, are grouped into independent con... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080137928 | Method and System for Registering CT Data Sets Disclosed is a method and apparatus for registering data points in data sets representing scan data. Data points corresponding to a physical feature represented in the scan data are automatically detected. The detected data points in one data set are correlated with det... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080137949 | Generalized Rigid Alignment of 3D Ear Impression Models A method for rigid registration of ear impression models, including: extracting a canal region from an undetailed ear impression model, the undetailed ear impression model representing an undetailed surface of an ear canal and outer ear geometry; extracting a canal regi... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080130549 | ROUTE MAINTENANCE AND UPDATE BASED ON CONNECTION IDENTIFIER IN MULTI-HOP RELAY SYSTEMS Connection ID (CID) assignment in multi-hop relay system can be used to perform routing. Using CID assignment as routing information in a multi-hop wireless relay system to maintain the routing structure is disclosed. In a CID cache scheme, a base station builds a CID c... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080123584 | Route Optimization for MultiHop Relay Transmission Systems Methods and systems for multihop routing in wireless transmission are disclosed. Routing is initiated and grown from a Base Station by a Network Entry Process for Relays. A Route Report Messages structure is disclosed and a Route Maintenance Message structure and messag... | 05/29/2008 |
