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Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool
Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128218 | Simulation of Medical Imaging There is described a method for simulating an imaging process for an organ, the method comprising: retrieving from a memory a 3D volume model of the organ, the 3D volume model describing a 3D structure of the organ and a distribution of density within the 3D structure, ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128220 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING HAIR CHARACTERISTIC DATA AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING THE SAME A method for acquiring hair characteristic data includes an image acquiring step and a data acquiring step. The image acquiring step acquires a cross-sectional image of a human hair 50, in which plural types of fibrous tissues (ortho cell 52a, para ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128219 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATION OF A TOPOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF A TUBULAR STRUCTURE AND USE THEREOF IN VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY A method for determining an estimation of a topological support of a tubular based structure comprising an inner wall and a plurality of distinct regions, the method comprising (a) obtaining image data representative of the tubular based structure; (b) placing an initia... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106812 | SMILE DESIGNER Various methods and systems for designing a restored smile are provided. One method includes receiving scan data of a patient's teeth, developing a digital model of the patient's teeth via a computing device, where the model represents the patient's teeth based upon the... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106813 | CHARACTERIZATION OF A PERCEPTION OF BLUR The invention relates to a method for characterizing a perception of blur by a subject (10) in order to determine a dioptric blur value for an image (C) observed by the subject. The image has a blur generated by the low-pass filtering of the image components in a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106811 | All-In-One Specimen Cup With Optically Readable Results A biological material test strip and adjacently-located reference color chart are affixed to a lid portion of an all-in-one specimen cup to perform color-based reaction testing of collected biological specimens in an uncalibrated environment. After specimen collection, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106809 | Teachable object contour mapping for biology image region partition A teachable object contour mapping method for region partition receives an object boundary and a teaching image. An object contour mapping recipe creation is performed using the object boundary and the teaching image to generate object contour mapping recipe output. An ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106810 | Automated Rib Ordering and Pairing Ribs are automatically ordered and paired. After ordering ribs on each side, magnetic and spring functions are used to solve for rib pairing. The magnetic function is used to constrain possible pairs across sides, and the spring function is used to maintain the order on... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING MOTION CORRECTION A method for evaluating the effectiveness of a motion correction procedure includes acquiring an imaging dataset of an object using an imaging system, identifying a motion affected portion of the imaging dataset, motion correcting the identified portion to generate a mo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE GENERATION Method and apparatus for image generation from biometric data is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the biometric data is in the form of IrisCode and the method comprises constructing a graph of filter responses and bits which define the biometric data at 4... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082351 | FAST 3D-2D IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD WITH APPLICATION TO CONTINUOUSLY GUIDED ENDOSCOPY Fast and continuous registration between two imaging modalities makes it possible to completely determine the rigid transformation between multiple sources at real-time or near real-time frame-rates in order to localize video cameras and register the two sources. A set ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082353 | Mobile Video-Based Therapy Mobile video-based therapy, using a portable therapy device that includes a camera, a therapy application database, a processor, and a display. The camera is configured to generate images of a user, and the therapy application database is configured to store therapy app... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082352 | WORKSTATIONS WITH CIRCUITS FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF GLOBAL INJURY Physician interactive workstations with global voxel distribution visualization may also include one or more of a 3-D color scale image of a population of voxel in target regions, organs or systems. The workstation may be configured to evaluate intensity or other measur... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082354 | ESTABLISHING A CONTOUR OF A STRUCTURE BASED ON IMAGE INFORMATION A system for establishing a contour of a structure is disclosed. An initialization subsystem (1) is used for initializing an adaptive mesh representing an approximate contour of the structure, the structure being represented at least partly by a first image, and ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120070047 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM EMPLOYING A SPECTRALLY COLORED, HIGHLY ENHANCED IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR ASSISTING IN THE EARLY DETECTION OF CANCEROUS TISSUES AND THE LIKE A multi spectral imaging technique and associated mathematical formula for assisting in the early detection of cancerous tissues and the like and which includes displaying a basic digital image which is reversed into a partial negative and then resaved as a second image... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070046 | Method and System for Detection and Tracking of Coronary Sinus Catheter Electrodes in Fluoroscopic Images A method and system for detecting and tracking coronary sinus (CS) catheter electrodes in a fluoroscopic image sequence is disclosed. An electrode model is initialized in a first frame of the fluoroscopic image sequence based on input locations of CS sinus catheter elec... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070048 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ORDERING STORED IMAGES An apparatus comprising—an imaging component for acquiring magnetic resonance images;—a storage component for storing the magnetic resonance images in a stack;—a sorting component for sorting the magnetic resonance images in the stack using machine defined meta in... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070049 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus, which analyzes retina layers of an eye to be examined, comprising, means for extracting a feature amount, which represents an anatomical feature in the eye to be examined, from a projection image obtained from a tomogram of the retina laye... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070045 | GLOBAL MEDICAL IMAGING REPOSITORY A system and method for acquiring, hosting and distributing medical images for healthcare professionals. In one illustrative embodiment, the system can include a database for storing private health information split from a medical imaging record. The private health info... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND VISUALIZING LOCAL CLINICAL FEATURES A system and method for analyzing and visualizing a local feature of interest includes access of a clinical image dataset comprising clinical image data acquired from a patient, identification of a region of interest (ROI) from the clinical image dataset, and extraction... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND VISUALIZING LOCAL CLINICAL FEATURES A system and method for analyzing and visualizing local clinical features includes the access of a set of clinical data acquired from a patient, the set of clinical data comprising image data and clinical test result data. The system also includes identification of a re... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051612 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing apparatus includes a gradient strength calculating unit that calculates a gradient strength of respective pixel values based on an intraluminal image; an extracting unit that extracts a closed region satisfying conditions that the pixel of which grad... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051611 | OPHTHALMIC-IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR The present invention provides an ophthalmic-image processing apparatus including a layer-specifying unit configured to specify at least one layer from an image generated based on volume data of a subject's eye, and a display-control unit configured to display a project... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051515 | Respiration-correlated radiotherapy An approach to radiotherapy is disclosed which allows the therapeutic beam to be more accurately directed towards a target region. Instead of stopping acquiring images during treatment, the system continues to acquire images as treatment is ongoing. This ongoing pipelin... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051606 | Automated System for Anatomical Vessel Characteristic Determination A system enables a user to mark a ROI of a vessel portion having detected boundaries and extend the detection of vessel boundaries into a region identified by the user. An anatomical blood vessel detection and display system includes a user interface enabling a user, vi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051608 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND VISUALIZING LOCAL CLINICAL FEATURES A system and method for analyzing and visualizing local clinical features includes identification of a first region of interest (ROI) from a medical image dataset acquired from a patient and extraction of a feature dataset representing a feature of interest specific to ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052063 | AUTOMATED DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER LESIONS IN TISSUE The present disclosure relates to methods of analyzing breast tumor samples, for example as a means to determine whether the tumor is cancerous or benign. For example, it is shown herein that analysis of a Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopic image allows fo... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053446 | VOTING IN IMAGE PROCESSING Methods and systems are to facilitate the interaction between a user and a computer aided detection (“CAD”) system when identifying areas of interest in an image. The CAD system receives input from a user indicating areas of interest that the user perceives in the i... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051614 | AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF CONFIDENCE IN IMAGING DATA A system and method are provided to automatically assess a confidence in imaging data based on a proposed diagnostic task or treatment decision, by determining one or more imaging quality indicators relating to the imaging data corresponding to a confidence of the propo... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051617 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF DISRUPTIVE EVENTS IN IMAGING SCANS In methods and an apparatus for detecting an incident or behavior in a medical image scan of a subject, a list of image data points captured during the scan is obtained, and a scan period of the scan selected. A model for a distribution of list data over the scan period... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051607 | Method and Apparatus Regarding Iterative Processes as Pertain to Medical Imaging Information A medical-imaging digital-computing platform serves to access a plurality of data objects and to execute an iterative process with respect to these data objects. The data objects themselves each at least generally pertain to portions of the human anatomy and may compris... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051613 | MAMMOGRAPHY DISPLAYING METHOD AND SYSTEM Stereoscopic images of a pair of left and right breasts are displayed in a comparatively readable manner by matching the sense of depths of each stereoscopic image. In a mammography displaying system that captures a plurality of images having parallax for each of a pair... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND VISUALIZING LOCAL CLINICAL FEATURES A system and method for analyzing and visualizing local clinical features includes access of a medical image dataset comprising image data acquired from a patient and identification of a region of interest (ROI) dataset corresponding to an ROI from the medical image dat... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046971 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGING PATIENTS WITH A PERSONAL MEDICAL DEVICE A method and system are provided for detecting the presence of a personal medical device within a patient. A method and system are provided for determining the location and type of the personal medical device as well as other characteristics of the device. A method and ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045790 | MICRODISSECTION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM In a first aspect, a method for use in biology, histology, and pathology, comprises: providing a digital first image (44) of a first slice (12) of an object (10) comprising biological material; generating a digital second image (46) of a seco... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045103 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING CELLS OR OTHER MATERIALS An image sensor integrated circuit may contain image sensor pixels. A channel containing a fluid with particles such as cells may be formed on top of the image sensor. Some of the image sensor pixels may form a calibration sensor and some of the image sensor pixels may ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039516 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARVESTING AND IMPLANTING HAIR USING IMAGE-GENERATED TOPOLOGICAL SKIN MODELS Systems and methods are provided for orienting a hair harvesting tool relative to a follicular unit to be harvested. Further, systems and methods of implanting follicular units are provided, which are based on the orientation of the existing follicular units or based on... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039517 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS FOR AIDING IMAGE ANALYSIS Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer instructions for aiding analysis of an image used in a medical examination. For example, in an embodiment, an image analysis system used in a medical examination comprises: an input modul... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033865 | QUANTIFICATION OF MEDICAL IMAGE DATA A system is provided for quantification of medical image data. First image obtaining means (1) are for obtaining a first image (A). Second image obtaining means (2) are for obtaining a second image (B). Spatial transformation obtaining means (3) are for obtaining spatia... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033864 | HEART SEGMENTATION IN CARDIAC REST AND STRESS IMAGING A patient (14), at rest, is injected with a first isotope tracer. After a first uptake period, the patient is stressed and injected with a second isotope tracer. After a second isotope tracer uptake period, first and second isotope imaging data are concurrently d... | 02/09/2012 |
