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Title:
画像データに基づく医療画像の選択
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004509686
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
Systems and methods for deriving a cardiac cycle signal by selecting images of a portion of a cardiovascular system include receiving a plurality of images from a scanner that have been recorded over a period of time. The images represent one or more locations along the extent of the cardiovascular system. The images are then selected based on common criteria determined from the plurality of images and without reference to an external signal. The common criteria comprises changes in the size of a cross section of the aorta, changes in the volume of the heart, changes in the area of a cross section of the heart. In addition, the criteria can include the mean pixel difference between adjacent images.

Inventors:
Argiro, Vincent Jay.
Brasil, Marek
Rashid, Renee M.
Todd Johnson
Brazil, milan
Application Number:
JP2002529958A
Publication Date:
April 02, 2004
Filing Date:
September 26, 2001
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Vital Images, Incorporated
International Classes:
G01R33/32; A61B5/00; A61B5/055; A61B6/03; A61B8/00; G06T7/20; G06T11/00; A61B6/00; (IPC1-7): A61B6/03; A61B5/00; A61B5/055; A61B8/00; G01R33/32
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Foreign References:
US6252924B12001-06-26
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hidesaku Yamamoto
Takaaki Yasumura
Natsuki Morishita