Deformable registration for tissue analytics

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-09-05
QI IMAGING
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This patent describes a system that can measure different tissues and display them as an image. The system can measure various characteristics of the tissue, such as time, displacement, density, strain, stress, temperature, etc. It can also analyze the tissue's "kinematics," which is the movement and deformation of the tissue. This analysis can help identify different tissue types and determine their properties, such as their mechanical, biological, or genetic properties. Overall, this system allows for a detailed analysis of different tissues and the determination of their unique features.

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Although standard advanced imaging software systems have enabled clinicians to qualitatively assess the physiological motion by interpolating (e.g., blurring, fading, etc.) from one phase data set to the next to generate a movie-like (i.e. cine) view, such imaging system fail to actual representations of tissue motion.
However, known systems fail to provide such information in a clinical setting.
For example, although other known imaging techniques (e.g., rigid registration) present tissue information related to tissues, there appears to be a lack of effort toward using such motion-based information obtained from imaging systems to classify tissues based tissue kinematic signals or based on statistical aggregation of tissue kinematics across populations or across other types of tissue contexts.

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[0023]It should be noted that while the following description is drawn to a computer / server based tissue analysis system, various alternative configurations are also deemed suitable and may employ various computing devices including servers, interfaces, systems, databases, agents, peers, engines, controllers, or other types of computing devices operating individually or collectively. One should appreciate the computing devices comprise a processor configured to execute software instructions stored on a tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium (e.g., hard drive, solid state drive, RAM, flash, ROM, etc.). The software instructions preferably configure the computing device to provide the roles, responsibilities, or other functionality as discussed below with respect to the disclosed apparatus. In especially preferred embodiments, the various servers, systems, databases, or interfaces exchange data using standardized protocols or algorithms, possibly based on HTTP, HTTP...

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A tissue analysis system is disclosed. Tissue analysis systems include sensors that acquire signals originating from a target tissue and representative of a tissue property. A signal converter converts the signals to property measurements. An analysis engine can derive a variation of one tissue property with respect to another property and present the variation within a deformable registration imaging devices.

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[0001]This application claims priority to U.S. provisional applications having serial numbers:[0002]61 / 529,109, 61 / 528,949, and 61 / 528,984, filed Aug. 30, 2011;[0003]61 / 529,556, and 61 / 529,610, filed Aug. 31, 2011;[0004]61 / 532,923, 61 / 532,944, and 61 / 532,988 filed Sep. 9, 2011; and[0005]61 / 543,644 filed Oct. 5, 2011.[0006]These and all other extrinsic materials discussed herein are incorporated by reference in their entirety. Where a definition or use of a term in an incorporated reference is inconsistent or contrary to the definition of that term provided herein, the definition of that term provided herein applies and the definition of that term in the reference does not apply.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0007]The field of the invention is tissue analytics technologies.BACKGROUND[0008]Serial data sets that are acquired to examine variability of tissue characteristics with respect to time are used to evaluate cardiac motion, neurovascular flow, respiratory motion, urinary collection syste...

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IPC IPC(8): A61B5/00
CPCA61B5/7425A61B6/463A61B8/463A61B5/053A61B5/0035A61B5/0059G06F19/3437A61B5/004A61B5/055A61B6/032A61B6/037A61B8/08A61B5/0044A61F2/00G16H50/50
InventorBROWN, HEATHER ANNEROYEA, ROBERT
OwnerQI IMAGING