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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150138 | Medical instrument and medical instrument control method A navigation apparatus includes: a storage portion that stores three-dimensional image data of an examinee that is previously acquired; an organ extracting portion that extracts a predetermined organ from the three-dimensional image data; a first region designating ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8064680 | Process for segmenting leukocytes A method for segmenting stained leukocytes in blood smears includes the following steps: the pixels of the digital images taken of the blood smears are allocated to one of at least three pixel classes according to their chromaticity values; the chromaticity values o... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7936913 | Network image review in clinical hematology Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for using digital imaging and networked communications in clinical hematology. An Area of Interest (AOI) on a slide is determined. A high resolution image of the AOI is analyzed for sample integrity and adjusted and re... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925070 | Method for displaying virtual slide and terminal device for displaying virtual slide The invention relates to a method for displaying a virtual slide capable of storing positional information of a prescribed cell in a virtual slide photographed with a magnification capable of recognizing cell morphology and a terminal device for displaying the virtu... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7796797 | Apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell and method for obtaining an image of a blood cell A apparatus for obtaining an image of a blood cell is described, a representative one of which includes image obtainer for obtaining an image of a predetermined blood cell in a blood sample smeared on a sample holder; an analysis result obtainer for obtaining an ana... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7639857 | Imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and program Radiation image data obtained by an imaging unit in a radiation irradiation state is stored. Reference image data obtained by the imaging unit in a radiation non-irradiation state is stored. Reduced radiation image data and reduced reference image data as reduced im... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7364895 | Bioarray chip reaction apparatus and its manufacture A body 300 having a cavity 310 for mounting a substrate 120 fabricated with probe sequences at known locations according to the methods disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,143,854 and PCT WO 92/10092 or others, is provided. The cavity includes inlets | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359747 | Intravascular imaging detector An apparatus for intravascular imaging to detect and characterize early stage, unstable coronary arty plaques. The detector works by identifying and localizing plaque-binding beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352900 | Apparatus and method for processing particle images and program product for same A method for processing particle images are described that include: receiving image information obtained by capturing an image of a particle; determining the circumferential length and number of inflection points in the contour of a particle image based on the recei... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346200 | Method and apparatus for computer controlled cell based diagnosis A computer controlled method for detecting and diagnosing a rare cell type in a tissue sample is provided, said method comprising treating the tissue sample such that it generates a first signal indicative of the presence at a location of a rare cell, detecting the ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346202 | Automatically detecting the presence of contrast agent in medical image A CAD system pre-analyzes a medical image to automatically determine whether contrast agent was introduced into the patient before forming that image. In one embodiment, contrast agent detection is performed by comparing the voxel values in known blood-containing ar... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7338168 | Particle analyzing system and methodology An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system contains a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer medium to scale the sensor and receptors in accordance with resolvable ch... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336812 | System for microvolume laser scanning cytometry The present invention provides an improved integrated system for biological marker identification. The system uses Microvolume Laser Scanning Microscopy (MLSC) in order to measure patterns of expression of biological markers in biological fluids. The system includes... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328058 | Intravascular imaging detector An apparatus for intravascular imaging to detect and characterize early-stage, unstable coronary arty plaques. The detector works by identifying and localizing plaque-binding beta-emitting radiopharmaceuticals. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324674 | Image processing device for fluorescence observation An image processing device having a very straightforward construction, for obtaining an image in which normal tissue and diseased tissue are easy to identify, comprises: an image synthesizing section that generates a synthesized image by synthesizing an image signal... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319520 | Method for separating fluorescence spectra of dyes present in a sample A system and a method for setting a fluorescence spectrum measurement system for microscopy is disclosed. Using illuminating light (3) from at least one laser that emits light of one wavelength, a continuous wavelength region is generated. Dyes are stored, wi... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7298885 | Biological growth plate scanner with automated image processing profile selection A biological scanner provides automated selection of image processing profiles to scan different types of biological growth plates. The scanner automatically identifies the type of plate to be scanned by the scanner, and then selects one of the image processing prof... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7274809 | Computerized methods and systems related to the detection of malignancy-associated changes (MAC) to detect cancer Computer programs, systems and the like related to processing, segmenting and feature normalizing digital images. The images are of cells and the methods are useful for the detection of malignancy-associated changes (MAC) in cells, which can be used for the detectio... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268862 | Near infrared chemical imaging microscope A chemical imaging system is provided which uses a near infrared radiation microscope. The system includes an illumination source which illuminates an area of a sample using light in the near infrared radiation wavelength and light in the visible wavelength. A multi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7209579 | Anatomic and functional imaging of tagged molecules in animals A novel functional imaging system for use in the imaging of unrestrained and non-anesthetized small animals or other subjects and a method for acquiring such images and further registering them with anatomical X-ray images previously or subsequently acquired. The ap... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199712 | System for automatically locating and manipulating positions on an object A system for automatically locating positions on an object and uniquely identifying the object employing an electronic tag positioned in or on the object. The system utilizes a plurality of sensors to locate the electronic tag and identify the object, and triangulat... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7177454 | Automated detection of objects in a biological sample A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7149332 | Method and apparatus for internet, intranet, and local viewing of virtual microscope slides A method of and apparatus for viewing microscopic images include transmitting tiled microscopic images from a server to a client. The client assembles the tiled images into a seamless virtual slide or specimen image and provides tools for manipulating image magnific... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7113817 | Optical imaging of blood circulation velocities New devices and methods are provided for noninvasive and noncontact real-time measurements of tissue blood velocity. The invention uses a digital imaging device such as a detector array that allows independent intensity measurements at each pixel to capture images o... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110586 | Apparatus for remote control of a microscope An apparatus and method acquires and stores multiple resolution images from a specimen on a support and provides to the user a low magnification, reconstructed macro image of the entire specimen, or a large portion thereof, to aid the person in selecting points of i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110585 | Nanoparticle imaging system and method An apparatus and method for imaging metallic nanoparticles is provided. Preferably, the invention provides for an apparatus and method for detection of gold colloid particles and for accurate reporting to the operator. The apparatus includes a substrate holder for h... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099500 | Automated detection of objects in a biological sample A method, system, and apparatus are provided for automated light microscopic for detection of proteins associated with cell proliferative disorders. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084910 | System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device A digital image capture and processing system, comprising a lens coupled to a lens control element is disclosed. The image capture system includes an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens, and a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens co... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7050620 | Method of assaying shape and structural features in cells The method for repetitively determining a profile of quantitative features for different cells in a sample by collecting and analyzing information on the mass distribution in cells or portions of cells and comparing the collected information to values from a relatio... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050087 | Data acquisition and display system and method A data acquisition and display system comprises: a data acquisition device, such as a camera, microscope, telescope, thermal imager, medical scanning device, radar etc, operable to acquire data in scans over a field of interest using each of at least a first and a s... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046859 | Methods for determining a measure of atmospheric aerosol optical properties using a multi- or hyperspectral, multi-pixel image A method of automatically determining a measure of atmospheric aerosol optical properties using a multi- or hyper-spectral, multi-pixel image. A plurality of spectrally-diverse pixels are resolved from the image. A statistical spectral deviation of the spectrally-di... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7006674 | Apparatus and methods for verifying the location of areas of interest within a sample in an imaging system An apparatus and method for verifying the location of an area of interest within a sample are disclosed. An imaging system includes an optical system and a stage movable relative to the optical system. A computer server is in communication with the imaging system an... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993170 | Method for quantitative analysis of blood vessel structure We disclose quantitative geometrical analysis enabling the measurement of several features of images of tissues including perimeter, area, and other metrics. Automation of feature extraction creates a high throughput capability that enables analysis of serial sectio... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6979570 | Particle analyzer and particle analyzing method A particle analyzer includes a detecting section for detecting respective characteristic parameters of a plurality of particles, a distribution map preparing section for preparing at least two kinds of two-dimensional frequency distribution maps of the particles by ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6956695 | System and method for increasing the contrast of an image produced by an epifluorescence microscope The contrast of an image produced by epifluorescence microscopy may be increased by placing a high-pass dichroic reflecting film behind the sample. The reflecting film reflects the emission light emitted by the fluorescent tags in the sample back through the objecti... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950547 | Web inspection method and device An imaging device for sequentially imaging a portion of a continuously moving web to provide a digital data stream which is then analyzed by a single computer without the used of dedicated signal processing hardware. Techniques for operating on the data stream from ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944322 | Optical tomography of small objects using parallel ray illumination and post-specimen optical magnification A parallel-beam optical tomography system for imaging an object of interest includes a parallel ray beam radiation source that illuminates the object of interest with a plurality of parallel radiation beams. After passing through the object of interest the pattern o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941005 | Monitoring and control of droplet sorting Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for sorting particles in a stream of a sample in a flow cytometer by producing from a stable sort having desirable sort characteristics multiple images of a portion of the stream; generating from the multiple images an ave... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6939687 | Method of testing adequacy of cells in a specimen The present invention provides a device and method for determining the adequacy of squamous (ectocervical) cells, columnar (endocervical) cells, neutrophils, and noncellular material in a liquid based cytology specimen. The invention first analyzes a liquid based cy... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6922479 | System and method for generating a profile of particulate components of a body fluid sample A system for generating a profile of particulate components of a body fluid sample is provided. The system includes: (a) a device for causing controlled flow of the body fluid sample on a substrate, the controlled flow of the body fluid sample leading to a different... | 07/26/2005 |
