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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090034841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECT IN IMAGE According to one aspect, a method for identifying an object in an image includes steps of determining a center of the object; calculating a radius for scanning the image; scanning along a scan circle defined by the center and the radius; and identifying the object accor... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080131002 | RAPID AND HIGH PRECISION CENTROIDING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPOTS IMAGE The disclosure relates to a rapid and high precision centroiding method for spots image comprising the following steps. First, the method requires convoluting the gray value of a pixel with a Gaussian filter and judging whether the result thereof exceeds a predetermined... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20070127799 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VERTEBRAE AND INTERVERTEBRAL DISC LOCALIZATION IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES A system and method for vertebrae and intervertebral disc localization in magnetic resonance (MR) images is disclosed. In this method, a target spine MR image is segmented by generating a binary segmentation. A spinal cord line is then estimated on the segmented image. ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070092131 | Method for determining midpoint coordinates of an image of a point-symmetrical structure The invention relates to a method for determining midpoint coordinates of an image of a point-symmetrical structure stored in a volume data record, comprising: extracting a partial volume data record from the volume data record which contains the image of the point-symm... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070086676 | Apparatus and method for labeling rows and columns in an irregular array The apparatus and method of the invention provide for assigning coordinates to samples in an array. The method is based on a hierarchical pattern matching to a local lattice structure that is used as a template. Starting from the best local match, the pattern is expande... | 04/19/2007 |