Invention Grant
US09576360B2 Method and apparatus for quantitative measurements on sequences of images, particularly angiographic images
有权
用于对图像序列,特别是血管造影图像进行定量测量的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for quantitative measurements on sequences of images, particularly angiographic images
- Patent Title (中): 用于对图像序列,特别是血管造影图像进行定量测量的方法和装置
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Application No.: US14428046Application Date: 2013-03-26
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Publication No.: US09576360B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: Ron Schormans , Jean-Paul Aben , Rianne Reinartz
- Applicant: PIE MEDICAL IMAGING BV
- Applicant Address: NL Maastricht
- Assignee: PIE MEDICAL IMAGING BV
- Current Assignee: PIE MEDICAL IMAGING BV
- Current Assignee Address: NL Maastricht
- Agency: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.
- Priority: EP12184678 20120917
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/056426 WO 20130326
- International Announcement: WO2014/040758 WO 20140320
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/00 ; A61B5/02

Abstract:
Method for assessing a regurgitant flow through a valve into a moving object from a sequence of consecutive image frames of such object, which images are timely separated by a certain time interval, the method comprising the following steps: a) identifying in the images the object of interest; b) augmenting the images to compensate for protocol intensity variation and/or motion and/or background; c) making a time-analysis of augmented images to obtain time-density curve or curves, wherein time-density curves represent a time-evolution of pixel brightness; d) determining a plurality of parameters related to such time-density curve or curves; e) weighting such parameters to provide indications on the regurgitant flow. A corresponding apparatus and computer program are also disclosed.
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