Method and system for the presentation of blood vessel structures and identified pathologies

G Begelman, R Goldenberg, S Levanon… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
A method of presenting information associated with a blood vessel to a user for assessment
of the blood vessel is provided. A two-dimensional slice of three-dimensional imaging data …

Segmentation-based image processing system

X Jin - US Patent 8,260,048, 2012 - Google Patents
A digital image can be processed by an image processing method that calculates a gradient
map for the digital image, calculates a density function for the gradient map, calculates a …

Method and system for automatic lung segmentation

B Odry, S Qing, H Shen - US Patent 7,756,316, 2010 - Google Patents
(51) Int. Cl. Disclosed is a systematic way of automatically segmenting G06K 9/00(2006.01)
lung regions. To increase the efficiency of a lung segmenta (52) US Cl …

IWT-Interactive Watershed Transform: A hierarchical method for efficient interactive and automated segmentation of multidimensional grayscale images

HK Hahn, HO Peitgen - Medical Imaging 2003: Image …, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper we present the Interactive Watershed Transform (IWT) for efficient segmentation
of multidimensional grayscale images. The IWT builds upon a fast immersion-based …

Method and system for automatic analysis of blood vessel structures to identify calcium or soft plaque pathologies

G Begelman, R Goldenberg, S Levanon… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
A method of identifying a calcium and/or a soft plaque deposit in a blood vessel using
imaging data of the blood vessel is provided. A first threshold is applied to a slice of three …

Enhanced visualization of medical image data

L Bogoni, GH Valadez, M Wolf - US Patent 9,401,047, 2016 - Google Patents
G06K 9/00(2006.01)(57) ABSTRACT G06T 9/00(2011.01) Described herein is a technology
for enhanced visualization A61B 6/02(2006.01) of medical image data. In one …

Method of lung lobe segmentation and computer system

JM Kuhnigk - US Patent 7,315,639, 2008 - Google Patents
A method of lung lobe segmentation having the steps of: providing of three dimensional first
image data of a lung; segmentation of a tubular structure to identify first voxels of the first …

Automatic image segmentation methods and analysis

M Westerhoff, D Stalling, M Seebass - US Patent 10,706,538, 2020 - Google Patents
The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image
segmentation on data sets in two-and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that …

Methods to build 3D digital models of porous media using a combination of high-and low-resolution data and multi-point statistics

NF Hurley, T Zhang, W Zhao, M Al Ibrahim - US Patent 8,908,925, 2014 - Google Patents
This subject disclosure describes methods to build and/or enhance 3D digital models of
porous media by combining high-and low-resolution data to capture large and small pores …

Petrographic image analysis for determining capillary pressure in porous media

NF Hurley, M Al Ibrahim, W Zhao - US Patent 8,909,508, 2014 - Google Patents
This disclosed subject matter is generally related to methods for characterizing two-
dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) samples to determine pore-body and pore …