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| 8185187 | Magnetic resonance lmethod and apparatus with gated shimming of the basic magnetic field In the acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging or spectroscopic data, 2D PACE is employed to identify an acceptance or shimming window within which the magnetic resonance data are acquired, and to trigger the acquisition of the magnetic resonance data at the same ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184889 | Reconstruction support regions for improving the performance of iterative SPECT reconstruction techniques A method for iterative reconstruction of tomographic images of an object of interest includes obtaining data corresponding to a field of view of a detector, processing the data to prepare a reconstruction support region corresponding to a region within the field of ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184888 | Method and system for polyp segmentation for 3D computed tomography colonography A method and system for polyp segmentation in computed tomography colonogrphy (CTC) volumes is disclosed. The polyp segmentation method utilizes a three-staged probabilistic binary classification approach for automatically segmenting polyp voxels from surrounding ti... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184876 | NNLS image reconstruction In an aspect, reconstructing an image object associated with an input data set, includes for each step, in a series of iteration steps, determining an updated object from an input object based on a data model of the input object, a weighting-factor data set, and a g... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184119 | Fast ambient occlusion for direct volume rendering A method of direct volume rendering is provided comprising combining ambient occlusion volumes terms from a plurality of different filtered volumes using filters with different radii. During an ambient occlusion computation phase, the method obtains ambient occlusio... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183864 | System for multi nucleus cardiac MR imaging and spectroscopy A system for respiratory motion compensated MR imaging or spectroscopy, comprises an MR imaging system. The MR imaging system performs a single imaging scan including, acquiring a first imaging data set representing a spatially localized first imaging region located... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177719 | Contrast agent imaging with agent specific ultrasound detection Highly specific measurements of flow in vessels, such as the coronary artery, can be obtained by processing cubic fundamental information. By showing flow in vessels with a high degree of contrast-to-tissue specificity, ultrasound based 3D contrast agent based coron... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175363 | System and method for additive spatial/intensity decomposition of medical images A method for decomposing digital medical images includes providing a digital medical image, segmenting the image into one or more biological structures, extracting one or more segmented biological structures from the image by extracting all voxels within a spatial e... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175349 | System and method for segmenting vertebrae in digitized images A method for segmenting vertebrae in digitized images includes providing a plurality of digitized whole-body images, detecting and segmenting a spinal cord using 3D polynomial spinal model in each of the plurality of images, finding a height of each vertebrae in eac... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175076 | Medical device synchronization system for use in cardiac and other patient monitoring A system provides synchronization between different medical signal (e.g., EKG and ICEG signal) acquisition and processing devices. A system synchronizes multiple different patient medical parameter processing devices, using a master clock generator. The master clock... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173966 | Collimator storage apparatus integrated with patient support According to some embodiments, a patient support system for a nuclear medical imaging system is provided that includes: a patient support; a collimator storage unit located under the patient support; a first support means for supporting substantially all of the weig... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173073 | Portable microfluidic radiosynthesis system for positron emission tomography biomarkers and program code Methods and devices for a fully automated synthesis of radioactive compounds for imaging, such as by positron emission tomography (PET), in a fast, efficient and compact manner are disclosed. In particular, the various embodiments of the present invention provide an... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170855 | System for simulating PET gantry A system for simulating a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) gantry has a computer system having a bus system for receiving expansion cards, a mass data storage support system, the mass storage system being operable to store coincidence-event and tag packet data, an... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170640 | System and method for tree projection for detection of pulmonary embolism A system and method for detecting an area of interest such as a pulmonary embolism in a structure of interest such as a vessel tree or airway tree are provided. The method comprises: segmenting image data of the structure of interest; and rendering two-dimensional i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170354 | Systems and methods of inter-frame compression A system and method for rendering images, and performing operations such as windowing and leveling, when the parameters of a client appliance are known and rendering images when the parameters of a client appliance are unknown. The invention also considers the rende... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170347 | ROI-based assessment of abnormality using transformation invariant features A method and apparatus of comparing the results of medical imaging by, for example, PET scanning dispenses with the need for intensity normalization. The relationships between features extracted from relevant regions of interest in the image are studied. In one exam... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170319 | Motion detection by direct imaging during radiotherapy An apparatus, method, system, and means to detect motion of a subject by direct imaging on a treatment plane during a radiotherapy treatment, the method includes delivering a radiotherapy treatment beam to a volume of interest of the subject during a treatment time,... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170318 | Filter bank for ultrasound image enhancement Image enhancement is provided in ultrasound imaging. A filter bank is used to process the data. The data may be processed in parallel. Each filter outputs data representing a same location, but with a kernel path (e.g., line, curved line, area, curved surface, or vo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170312 | Respiratory motion compensated cardiac wall motion determination system A cardiac wall motion compensation system quantitatively compares images acquired at different phases of cardiac and respiratory movement and excludes motion contributed by respiratory movement. A system compensates for respiratory motion induced tissue displacement... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170303 | Automatic cardiac view classification of echocardiography A method for view classification includes providing a frame of an object of interest, detecting a region of interest within the object of interest for each of a plurality of detectors (e.g., binary classifiers), wherein each binary classifier corresponds to a differ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165425 | Interactive manual deformable registration of images An image processing method is described that allows a user to deform an overlay image for the purpose of registration with a source image. The user defines a stretch vector for example by ‘clicking and dragging’ a mouse pointer and an algorithm deforms the overl... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165375 | 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... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165371 | Enhanced contrast MR system accommodating vessel dynamic fluid flow A system enhances MR imaging contrast between vessels containing dynamically flowing blood and static tissue using an MR imaging system. The MR imaging system, in response to a heart rate synchronization signal, acquires an anatomical preparation data set representi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165369 | System and method for robust segmentation of pulmonary nodules of various densities A method for differentiating pulmonary nodules in digitized medical images includes identifying an object of interest from a digital image of the lungs, computing a first distance map of each point of the object of interest, determining a seed point from the first d... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165360 | X-ray identification of interventional tools A system and method enhance the visibility of medical devices shown in internal images. A medical device may be inserted into a patient. Internal images of the patient may then be acquired via various medical imaging techniques. However, the medical device may only ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160367 | Circular intensity distribution analysis for the detection of convex, concave and flat surfaces A method for characterizing a shape of an object surface includes acquiring image data including the object. The image data is analyzed at a locus of points that are at a predetermined distance from a point of interest proximate to the object surface to determine wh... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160347 | System and method for intelligent CAD processing A computer implemented method for automatically selecting an algorithm for image analysis in a computer-aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) system includes receiving image data for a study involving a patient, querying a radiology information system (RIS) for an IHE (In... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160344 | Iterative segmentation of images for computer-aided detection A method and system for facilitating computer-aided detection (CAD) in which, in one implementation, image data is received (302) and iterations of an iterative segmentation process is performed on the image data. Each iterative segmentation process may inclu... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160343 | Efficient features for computer-aided detection A technology for facilitating computer-aided detection (CAD) includes in one implementation, receiving an enhancement pattern (602) generated from image data. The enhancement pattern is pre-processed to produce an alert level (604, 606, 608). Computati... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160341 | Systems and methods for automatic robust anatomy detection through local voting and prediction A method for performing a medical imaging study includes acquiring a preliminary scan. A set of local feature candidates is automatically detected from the preliminary scan. The accuracy of each local feature candidate is assessed using multiple combinations of the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160340 | Reconstructing a tomographic image Tomographically reconstructing a 3D image object corresponding to a data set includes for each step in a series of iteration steps, determining an updated object by performing a combined operation, which includes performing an update operation for updating an input ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160336 | Reducing false positives for automatic computerized detection of objects A computer-implemented method for identifying an object of interest includes providing input data including an image and a candidate for the object of interest in the image, extracting a boundary of the candidate, and extracting a segment of a region of interest con... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160323 | Learning a coarse-to-fine matching pursuit for fast point search in images or volumetric data using multi-class classification A landmark location system for locating landmarks in volumes includes a medical image database including volumes of medical images, a learning unit that trains a multi-class classifier to locate a landmark point in each volume from extracted features of the volumes ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160322 | Joint detection and localization of multiple anatomical landmarks through learning A method for detecting and localizing multiple anatomical landmarks in medical images, including: receiving an input requesting identification of a plurality of anatomical landmarks in a medical image; applying a multi-landmark detector to the medical image to ident... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160314 | System and method for linking VOIs across timepoints for analysis of disease progression or response to therapy A system and method for linking volumes of interest (VOIs) across timepoints are provided. The method comprises: loading an image dataset of a first timepoint and an image dataset of a second timepoint; registering the image dataset of the first timepoint and the im... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160199 | System for 3-dimensional medical image data acquisition A method and system provides medical image processing and 3-dimensional image construction of an examination subject. A user is enabled to selectively orient an x-ray imaging system having a variable 3-dimensional acquisition axis relative to an examination subject ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157848 | System for characterizing patient tissue impedance for monitoring and treatment A system provides early prediction of heart tissue malfunction and electrophysiological pathology by determining anatomical tissue impedance characteristics for use in medical patient monitoring and treatment decision making. At least one repository of data indicate... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155415 | Extension of truncated CT images for use with emission tomography in multimodality medical images An apparatus and method for expanding the FOV of a truncated computed tomography (CT) scan. An iterative calculation is performed on the original CT image to produce an estimate of the image. The calculated estimate of the reconstructed image includes the original i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151204 | Document viewing and management system A document management and thumbnail image viewing system enables a user to display separate pages in individual different documents as well as to expand an image to view more detail in a single document, move pages across documents, and insert/delete pages or docume... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150709 | Integrated point of care medication administration information system An integrated point of care medication administration system comprises a point of care medication administration system including an interface for communicating with the at least one repository and information sources and including a processor. The processor uses th... | 04/03/2012 |
