Abstract:
In a methods and apparatus for generating an image for display from medical image data of a subject, image data is processed to reconstruct a pre-image data set, and a filter applied to the pre-image data set to produce a filtered image for display, while a value of a variable is obtained from the pre-image data set, for display with the filtered image. The value obtained from the pre-image data can be used for quantification of a feature of the medical image data.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for calibrating image data from a given medical imaging protocol, reference image data is obtained from a scan of a reference object using the medical imaging protocol, and the obtained reference image data of the reference object is compared to standard reference image data for the reference object. The obtained reference image data is then modified to reduce an error between the obtained reference image data and the standard reference image data. Subject image data id then obtained from a scan of a subject using the medical imaging protocol, and modified based on the modified reference image data. A value of a variable is obtained from the modified subject image data, for display with unmodified subject image data.
Abstract:
In a method or apparatus for identifying a region of interest in a medical image of a subject, at least one local maximum region of the image is determined for which a value of a given variable is a local maximum value. A user-selection of an initial voxel in the image is registered. As the region of interest, a connected set of voxels for which values of the given variable are greater than a threshold is selected, the selected set of voxels comprising a first local maximum region at a distance from the user-selected voxel, and the threshold being a given fraction of the local maximum value of the first local maximum region in the set.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for analyzing medical imaging data of a subject from an imaging modality using a tracer, data from detection of tracer emission events at least one region of a scanned imaging volume are obtained, and the data processed to establish sub-periods or time points within a scan period for the emission events. A rate of change of emission events per unit time for a given region is then calculated, for example by obtaining a number of emission events in each sub-period in the given region, and fitting a line through the values for the sub-periods.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for analyzing and correcting medical imaging data of a subject, an image data set is obtained from a scan of the subject at a first time point with respect to a defined time origin. A measurement of a time-dependent variable is then determined for the data set, and an estimated value for the time-dependent variable at an estimate time point is extrapolated from the data set.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for analyzing and correcting medical imaging data of a subject, an image data set is obtained from a scan of the subject at a first time point with respect to a defined time origin. A measurement of a time-dependent variable is then determined for the data set, and an estimated value for the time-dependent variable at an estimate time point is extrapolated from the data set.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for generating an enhanced image for display from medical imaging data of a subject, a feature of interest in the imaging data elongated in at least one dimension is determined. A location of a line through the imaging data along the feature of interest is obtained, and a projection image along the line is generated from the imaging data.
Abstract:
A method for facilitating comparison of image data from a given medical imaging protocol with archive image data, includes obtaining subject image data from a scan of a subject using the medical imaging protocol, obtaining archive image data differing from the subject image data in a given variable, determining a modifier usable to reduce the difference between the archive and subject image data, using the modifier to modify one of the subject image data and the archive image data to reduce the difference, and comparing the modified archive or subject image data with the subject or archive image data.
Abstract:
In a method to generate a nuclear medicine image reconstructed from an average of multiple subsets of acquired counts of a dataset, having an image quality characteristic aligned with that of a corresponding image obtained from a reconstruction of all counts of the dataset, a phantom data acquisition is used to determine an appropriate post-processing step necessary to align each image quality characteristic which provides a desired alignment of a given image quality characteristic. The determined post-processing step is applied to the combination of the multiple reconstructions.
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for identifying a region of interest in medical imaging data of a subject is described, an intensity projection image is generated from the medical imaging data. The medical imaging data is then processed to find one or more maxima in the medical imaging data. The found maxima are compared with the intensity projection image, and one of the maxima which is not represented in the intensity projection image is identified.