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PCT No. PCT/US90/03243 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 23, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 23, 1993 PCT Filed Jun. 7, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/18696 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 12, 1991.An apparatus for confining molten metal with a horizontal alternating magnetic field. In particular, this invention employs a magnet that can produce a horizontal alternating magnetic field to confine a molten metal at the edges of parallel horizontal rollers as a solid metal sheet is cast by counter-rotation of the rollers.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a film image correcting method and system for improving a picture quality of a copied image including nonlinear characteristics to be corrected. SOLUTION: A film image is digitized to create a histogram of digital image data. At least a first pixel value indicating a parameter in the case of obtaining the film image is extracted from the histogram and at least partially based upon the first pixel value, a specific correction curve and a prescribed corrected pixel value are selected out of a plurality of nonlinear correction curves for relating source pixel values stored in a memory for each of parameters in advance to corrected pixel values. Based upon a relationship of a source pixel value and a corrected pixel value determined by the selected correction curve, pixel values of the image are converted into corrected pixel values. Thus, a nonlinear corrected image is created based upon resultant corrected image data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a specific gene expression to cardiac muscle and to coronary vascular smooth muscle. SOLUTION: This method is used for expression of a gene product in a cardiac muscle cell and comprises (a) a step for infusing an adenovirus vector construct comprising a coding sequence that encodes the gene product into the blood flow of a coronary artery or a coronary sinus perfusing the cardiac muscle cell wherein the vector drives expression of the gene product in the muscle cell and (b) a step for obtaining expression of the gene product in the cardiac muscle cell.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently detect an abnormality using an artificial neural network by providing a 2nd neural network means for outputting 2nd signal data based on 1st signal data, and a decision means for outputting a diagnosis result based on the 2nd signal data, etc. SOLUTION: This system is composed of an extracting means for extracting part data from picture data, a 1st neural network means for outputting the 1st signal data based on the extracted part data, the 2nd neural network means for outputting the 2nd signal data based on the 1st signal data, and the decision means for outputting the diagnosis result based on the 2nd signal data. Then, the part data is extracted from the picture data, and the 1st signal data is outputted from the 1st neural network based on this part data. The 2nd signal data is outputted from the 2nd neural network based on this 1st signal data, and the diagnosis result is outputted based on this data.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently display a number of images of a specimen with a simple operation by obtaining diagnosis information concerning a medical image to display the medical image in a first display area of a display screen and an image corresponding to the diagnosis information in a second display area. SOLUTION: The name of a patient linked to a medical image loaded from a memory/archive and an identification number(ID) of the patient or an image itself are displayed in a patient information area 33. Three types of image sets comprising differential images, previous images used for the generation thereof and current images are simultaneously displayed in a main image observation area 31 limited within a screen of a display device. A plurality of buttons designed in the differential image are arranged in a computer aided diagnosis/ image selection area 32 and can be used by a user to freely switch the current images, the previous images and the results of the CAD in the main image observation area 31. This also enables checking of a plurality of images to be read at a time.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a computerized method and apparatus for improving diagnostic precision using intensified images for detecting interval changes between temporally sequential digitized medical images. SOLUTION: A pair of images are digitized (steps 10, 20) and then subjected to image registration including non-linear warping of one of the images so that corresponding locations in the two images are aligned with each other (step 40). Subsequent to image registration, a subtraction process is performed on the warped image and the other image (step 50). In this manner, slight opacities which are only present in the later image, may be detected in a subtraction image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PCT No. PCT/US90/03243 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 23, 1993 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 23, 1993 PCT Filed Jun. 7, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/18696 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 12, 1991.An apparatus for confining molten metal with a horizontal alternating magnetic field. In particular, this invention employs a magnet that can produce a horizontal alternating magnetic field to confine a molten metal at the edges of parallel horizontal rollers as a solid metal sheet is cast by counter-rotation of the rollers.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a non-video radiation energy device having desirable characteristics based on a radiation energy flow line. SOLUTION: The radiation energy device 180 includes a radiation energy source 190 which has an end, a first lens 182 which is positioned to accept the radiation energy from the radiation energy source 190, an optical element which has nonlinear reflection surfaces 184 and 186 on which the radiation energy from the first lens 182 is made incident, a second lens 188 which receives the reflection of the incident radiation energy on the nonlinear reflection surfaces 184 and 186 past the first lens 182, and a radiation energy receptor 192 which is so positioned as to accept the radiation energy from the second lens 188 and has an end. The nonlinear reflection surfaces 184 and 186 of the optical element are formed to such a shape that the plural effective optical path distances arriving at the end of the radiation energy receptor 192 through the points on the nonlinear reflection surfaces 184 and 186 from the end of the radiation energy source 190 are constant with respect to each of the points on the nonlinear reflection surfaces 184 and 186.