Method and apparatus for extracting centerline of tubular object

    公开(公告)号:US10818027B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-27

    申请号:US16077523

    申请日:2017-05-24

    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for extracting a centerline of a tubular object are provided. The method includes: preprocessing an image of the tubular object whose centerline is to be extracted to obtain an enhanced image, acquiring a gradient vector flow field of the enhanced image; acquiring a deformation force parameter based on the gradient vector flow field and extracting ridge points of the tubular object from the enhanced image, establishing a regularized open curve deformable model; if a deformation end condition is not met, deforming and processing one ridge line segment in the initial ridge line segment list based on the model to obtain a centerline segment of the tubular object, updating the initial ridge line segment list based on the ridge line segment traversed; if the deformation end condition is met, generating a centerline of the tubular object based on the centerline segments.

    INDOOR POSITIONING METHOD AND SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20200309896A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16731046

    申请日:2019-12-31

    Abstract: This application relates to an indoor positioning method and system and an electronic device. The method includes: calculating distances between an unknown node and at least three known nodes; obtaining at least three square regions around the at least three known nodes by using the distances as radiuses, and obtaining a minimum overlapping region based on overlapping parts of the at least three square regions; reducing the minimum overlapping region in an equal proportion by using a geometric center of the minimum overlapping region as a center to obtain a new square region; calculating an optimal vertex location of the new square region through iteration; and forming a new smaller region around the optimal vertex location by using the optimal vertex location as a new central point, and using an optimal vertex location of the smaller region as an estimated location of the unknown node.

    MAGNETIC RESONANCE TEMPERATURE IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20200292651A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16888882

    申请日:2020-06-01

    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic resonance temperature imaging method and apparatus, and relates to the field of magnetic resonance. According to the magnetic resonance temperature imaging method and apparatus, accuracy and precision of a water-fat tissue temperature image at a current moment are improved by using a two-step iterative temperature estimation algorithm, a magnetic resonance signal model includes multiple fat peaks, and a fourth strength amplitude value of a water signal, a fourth strength amplitude value of a fat signal, a fourth field drift caused by a non-uniform main magnetic field, and the water-fat tissue temperature image at the current moment that minimize a difference between signal strength and signal strength before fitting are estimated.

    Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for extracting a cardiovascular vessel from a CTA image

    公开(公告)号:US20200242758A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-30

    申请号:US16632579

    申请日:2017-07-26

    Abstract: The present invention is applicable to the technical field of medical image processing, and provides a method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for extracting a cardiovascular vessel from a CTA image. The method comprises: performing erosion operation and dilation operation on image data successively via a preset structural element to obtain a structure mask; performing a slice-by-slice transformation on the plane of section images of the structural mask to acquire the first ascending aortic structure in the structural mask, and acquiring an aortic center position and an aortic radius in the last slice of the plane of section image of the said structural mask; establishing a binarized sphere structure according to the aortic center position and the aortic radius, and synthesizing a second ascending aorta structure by combining the first ascending aorta structure with the structure mask and the binarized sphere structure. The present invention realizes extracting shapes of ascending aorta and root aortic sinus, so that the aortic structure and morphology can be accurately visualized, thereby greatly improving the level and ability of medical imaging researches to solve clinical issues.

    2 DEGREE-OF-FREEDOMS DECOUPLING PARALLEL MECHANISM

    公开(公告)号:US20200147786A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16610524

    申请日:2017-06-09

    Abstract: A 2 DOFs decoupling parallel mechanism provided by the present disclosure comprises a fixed platform, a rotation assembly, a moving platform, an arc kinematic chain, and an arc rod. In the 2 DOFs decoupling parallel mechanism, the rotation assembly can drive the moving platform to rotate by 360 degrees around a direction being perpendicular to the fixed platform, the arc rod reciprocates along the tangential direction of the arc kinematic chain to enable the moving platform to rotate around an axis of a plane where the arc kinematic chain is located. In this way, the rotations of the moving platform in two directions are respectively driven by driving units in two directions and being independent from each other, such that the two rotation actions of the mechanism have decoupling capability.

    DELAYED EXCITATION ULTRASONIC IMAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND DELAYED EXCITATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20190053786A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-21

    申请号:US16167060

    申请日:2018-10-22

    Abstract: A delayed excitation ultrasonic imaging method includes: generating a regulating clock, and performing, according to the regulating clock, delayed excitation on an ultrasonic transducer once or multiple times; performing data collection on an ultrasonic echo signal of the ultrasonic transducer and signals after each time of performing delayed excitation; synthesizing and superimposing data collected to obtain high sampling rate data; and performing ultrasonic imaging according to the high sampling rate data. A delayed excitation ultrasonic imaging apparatus and system are also provided. By performing delayed excitation on the ultrasonic transducer, the high-frequency ultrasonic imaging is realized by low-frequency sampling and delayed excitation, which can greatly reduce the cost of the ultrasonic imaging system.

    Method for acquiring retina structure from optical coherence tomographic image and system thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10134143B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15412838

    申请日:2017-01-23

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for acquiring a retina structure from an optical coherence tomographic image and a system thereof. The method comprises: calculating a region of interest (ROI) image of a source image; performing a Gaussian filtering of the ROI image; calculating a first estimated boundary position of a first layer boundary and a second estimated boundary position of a second layer boundary using a multi-resolution method; refining the first layer boundary and the second layer boundary respectively using a simplified active contour model according to the first estimated boundary position and the second estimated boundary position, to obtain a first initial boundary position of the first layer boundary and a second initial boundary position of the second layer boundary; smoothing the first initial boundary position and the second initial boundary position using a filtering method; acquiring segmentation positions of rest layer boundaries in the ROI image according to a segmented position of the first layer boundary and a segmented position of the second layer boundary. The present disclosure can improve the calculation speed and reduce the calculation complexity while maintaining high location accuracy.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING BLOCKING GRATING FOR CONE BEAM CT IMAGE SCATTERING CORRECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20180132807A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-17

    申请号:US15850561

    申请日:2017-12-21

    Abstract: A method and apparatus for optimizing a blocking grating for cone beam CT image scattering correction, wherein the method comprises: scanning a blocking grating to establish a swinging model thereof; setting initial coordinates of the blocking grating along a longitudinal direction of a detector in an initial projection, and establishing an objective function between CBCT image data missing voxel values and the coordinates of the blocking grating along the longitudinal direction of the detector according to the swinging model; minimizing the objective function with a mesh-adaptive direct search algorithm to generate optimized coordinates of the blocking grating along the longitudinal direction of the detector. The present disclosure proposes a brand new scattering correction method not requiring any source compensation, performs a mathematical optimization modeling of the data missing caused by the blocking grating in the image domain, quantitatively evaluates the influence on the reconstructed image by a blocker, solves a geometric optimal structure of the blocker using a mesh-adaptive direct search algorithm, and lays a solid theory foundation for the scattering correction method based on the blocker measurement.

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