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7587073 Method and apparatus for a medical image processing system  
Disclosed is a medical image processing system comprising a medical image storage server for storing digital image data provided by means such as computerized tomography or magnetic resonance image...
7580737 Method and apparatus for determining treatment for stroke  
A method and apparatus for evaluating acute stroke patients and for determining whether a stroke patient will benefit from the use of thrombolysis therapy includes obtaining measurements of the...
7580739 System for detecting position of capsule endoscope in subject  
A system includes a device swallowed, passing through a subject, and including a constant magnetic field generator generating a constant magnetic field; and a position transducer. The position...
7574253 Signal processing using non-linear regression with a sinusoidal model  
A method for processing signals, such as a tomography signal, in the time domain provides both high spatial resolution and high frequency resolution but at low cost. The method uses non-linear...
7570063 Space-time microwave imaging for cancer detection  
Microwave imaging via space-time beamforming is carried out by transmitting microwave signals from multiple antenna locations into an individual to be examined and receiving the backscattered...
7558611 Automatic detection and quantification of coronary and aortic calcium  
An automated method measures coronary calcium in a living subject using x-ray computed tomography (CT). The method acquires at least one CT image containing voxels representing x-ray attenuation of...
7555329 Method and apparatus for quantifying pharyngeal residue  
A method and apparatus for quantifying pharyngeal residue and aspiration of a patient by x-ray imaging of the patient's head and neck to produce a baseline image, applying an initial volume of...
7529394 CAD (computer-aided decision) support for medical imaging using machine learning to adapt CAD process with knowledge collected during routine use of CAD system  
CAD (computer-aided decision) support systems, methods and tools for medical imaging are provided, which use machine learning classification for automated detection and marking of regions of...
7418287 Magnetic resonance imaging method with accelerated data acquisition  
A method of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging comprising acquiring undersampled magnetic resonance signals for successive temporal time slots. In a space spanned by geometrical space and temporal...
7366676 Method and system for in-service monitoring and training for a radiologic workstation  
In a method and a computer system for screening of medical cases known proven positive and/or known proven normal cases are inserted in the flow of cases during the screening. On a user's option...
7346382 Brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods  
This document discusses, among other things, brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods, such as for deep brain stimulation (DBS) or other electrical stimulation. A model computes a...
7329224 Therapy combination  
The invention relates to a therapy combination which consists of a locating unit and a therapy unit which includes a therapy head for focusing energy in a focus, said units being movable relative...
7123762 Method and system for risk-modulated diagnosis of disease  
A method of calculating a disease assessment by analyzing a medical image, comprising (1) extracting at least one lesion feature value from the medical image; (2) extracting at least one risk...
7096056 Functional magnetic resonance imaging using steady state free precession  
A method for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) uses steady-state free precession (SSFP) to image changes in blood oxygenation between two time periods. A center frequency of the SSFP...
7006860 Magnetic resonance imaging coil having vest support structure  
The vest provides a simple and intuitive coil support assuring proper alignment of the coils with the patient and providing support for coil elements encircling the opposed arms. A coil for...
6985767 Living body information measuring apparatus, living body information measuring method, body fat measuring apparatus, body fat measuring method, and program recording medium  
A body fat measuring apparatus is provided with a light emitting device 1 for projecting light rays to a subject's tissue, light receiving devices 3 and 4 for detecting a transmitted light...
6950544 Automated measurement of anatomical structures in medical imaging  
An automated process classifies MRI or other medical imaging data as belonging to neurological structures. A training part of the process uses a baseline data set with accompanying classification...
6950689 Dynamically alterable three-dimensional graphical model of a body region  
The present invention is a system and method for graphically displaying a three-dimensional model of a region located within a living body. A three-dimensional model of a region of interest is...
6917826 Automatic and quantitative assessment of image quality in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging  
A system and method for automatic quantitative assessment of myocardial image quality includes a liver-heart artifact quantification unit for providing a sequence of images, detecting the heart...
6901277 Methods for generating a lung report  
Software, methods and user interfaces for viewing and generating a lung report. In exemplary methods, a first baseline image is analyzed to localize lung nodules. The lung nodule information can be...
6819952 Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging method to monitor progression and treatment of neurodegenerative conditions  
A non-invasive longitudinal method that is sensitive and objective for quantifying progressive loss of neurons in normal aging brains and brains that suffer from a neurodegenerative disease is...
6748257 Detection of ribcage boundary from digital chest image  
To prevent erroneous detection of a ribcage boundary from a chest image, an outer search limit point is decided with precision. A profile of smoothed pixel-value integrated averages in each of...
6728567 Method and apparatus for high-resolution detection and characterization of medical pathologies  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the construction and/or use of multidimensional fields that can be used for high-resolution detection and characterization of features...
6601021 System and method for analyzing eyetracker data  
Methods and Systems for analyzing data of a user viewing a display of dynamic hypermedia pages through a browser including monitoring and storing location and time of the user's gaze as eyetracker...
6560474 Method for evaluating structural strength of cancellous bone using X-ray image  
A method for evaluating a structural strength of cancellous bone and a computer readable media incorporating a program for implementing the method therein. The method includes the steps of...
6505063 Diagnostic imaging system with ultrasound probe  
A diagnostic imaging system, notably a magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a receiver antenna for picking-up magnetic resonance signals and an ultrasound probe for receiving ultrasound...
6389305 Method and apparatus for detection of cancerous and precancerous conditions in a breast  
An apparatus for detection of precancerous and cancerous conditions in a breast is provided and includes a computer for digitizing at least one of a mammogram image data and a (scinti)mammogram...
6377832 System and method for analyzing a medical image  
Disclosed is a system and method for determining a severity of a stenosis in a blood vessel depicted in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data set. The system comprises a neural network configured...
6317617 Method, computer program product, and system for the automated analysis of lesions in magnetic resonance, mammogram and ultrasound images  
A method and system for the computerized automatic analysis of lesions in magnetic resonance (MR) images, a computer programmed to implement the method, and a data structure for storing required...
6226544 Living body internal active source estimation apparatus  
Obtaining fast dipole size estimation with less influence of noise by using a regional dipole model. An artificial neural network section 30 executes regional dipole size estimation using a neural...
6187289 Acetic acid as a contrast in reflectance confocal imaging of tissue  
A method for using acetic acid as a contrast agent during reflectance confocal imaging of normal and neoplastic tissue, particularly epithelium. In one aspect, the invention includes a method of...
6154708 Method of processing and correcting spectral data in two-dimensional representation  
The present method of processing spectral data calculates the first to fourth derivative spectra of an original spectrum with respect to the wavenumber and creates a two-dimensional representation...
6135965 Spectroscopic detection of cervical pre-cancer using radial basis function networks  
An apparatus and methods for spectroscopic detection of tissue abnormality, particularly precancerous cervical tissue, using neural networks to analyze in vivo measurements of fluorescence spectra....
6088473 Method and computer readable medium for automated analysis of chest radiograph images using histograms of edge gradients for false positive reduction in lung nodule detection  
An automated method, and a computer storage medium storing instructions for executing the method, for analysis of image features in lung nodule detection in a chest radiographic image represented...
6058322 Methods for improving the accuracy in differential diagnosis on radiologic examinations  
A computer-aided method for detecting, classifying, and displaying candidate abnormalities, such as microcalcifications and interstitial lung disease in digitized medical images, such as mammograms...
6043655 MR imaging utilizing the time of flight effect  
Time-Of-Flight (TOF) MRI techniques are used to enhance blood flows into one of a pair of images for a given plane or slice of a patent's body. Arithmetic subtraction of such images produces a...
5957855 Fetal data processing system and method employing a time-frequency representation of fetal heart rate  
A fetal data processing system and method, and a fetal monitor and method for monitoring the condition of a fetus are disclosed. A fetal heart rate time series is received and sampled. A non-linear...
5919135 System and method for treating cellular disorders in a living being  
A system and method is provided for the treatment of hypreproliferative diseases, such as cancer, using real-time computer control to visualize, to position and to operate drug infusing and imaging...
5873824 Apparatus and method for computerized analysis of interstitial infiltrates in chest images using artificial neural networks  
An automated computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) method and system using artificial neural networks (ANNs) for the quantitative analysis of image data. Three separate ANNs were applied for detection of...
5785653 System and method for predicting internal condition of live body  
A live body internal condition predicting and expressing system is capable of predicting the internal condition of a live body on the basis of an electromagnetic field distribution at significantly...
5782763 Electromagnetic bone-assessment apparatus and method  
Non-invasive quantitative in-vivo electromagnetic evaluation of bone is performed by subjecting bone to an electrical excitation wave-form supplied to a pair of electrodes on opposite sides of a...
5776063 Analysis of ultrasound images in the presence of contrast agent  
A method and apparatus for directly identifying and characterizing input data derived from regions of interest in ultrasound images of organs in the presence of attenuation from interposed contrast...
5735264 Motorized mammographic biopsy apparatus  
A motorized biopsy needle positioner employed in a mammographic needle biopsy system receives coordinate information representative of an identified point of interest within a patient's captive...
5660181 Hybrid neural network and multiple fiber probe for in-depth 3-D mapping  
An apparatus for in-depth three dimensional tumor mapping including (A) a light source; (B) a multi-fiber bundle including at least one illumination fiber and at least two receiving fibers, the at...
5655534 Method and apparatus for separating the different components of evoked response and spontaneous activity brain signals as well as of signals measured from the heart  
The present invention is related to a method and an apparatus for separating the different components of evoked responses and spontaneous activity of the brain, as well as signals measured from the...
5622171 Method and system for differential diagnosis based on clinical and radiological information using artificial neural networks  
A method and system for computer-aided differential diagnosis of diseases, and in particular, computer-aided differential diagnosis using neural networks. A first embodiment of the neural network...
5560360 Image neurography and diffusion anisotropy imaging  
A neurography system (10) is disclosed for generating diagnostically useful images of neural tissue (i.e., neurograms) employing a modified magnetic resonance imaging system (14). In one...
5524086 Dipole parameter estimation method and apparatus  
A trained neural network is used, for estimating the number, positions or moments of one or more dipoles which are assumed as sources of the electromagnetic field distribution based upon an...
5491627 Method and system for the detection of microcalcifications in digital mammograms  
A method and system for the detection of microcalcifications in digital mammograms. Digital mammograms are obtained and regions-of-interest (ROIs) are selected therefrom which contain suspected...
5425368 Method and apparatus for estimating tissue volumes in magnetic resonance images  
A fuzzy logic approach to the problem of distinguishing cerebrospinal fluid, gray and white matter pixels in magnetic resonance images of the brain. An unsupervised fuzzy clustering procedure based...
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