39 results about "Image Study" patented technology

An ultrasound system that has transmit and receive circuitry that, pursuant to a plurality of image settings, transmits ultrasound signals into a patient, receives echoes from a patient and outputs a signal representative of the echo. Control circuitry is provided that sequentially adjusts the image settings so as to cause the transmit and receive circuitry to have a sequence of imaging configurations during an ultrasound imaging study. A memory may be provided that stores a plurality of state diagrams, each defining a sequence of imaging configurations for a particular imaging study, which are accessible by the control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry accesses a selected state diagram to conduct an imaging study. Such a system is particularly useful for imaging studies that utilize contrast agents.

A method, system and apparatus for manufacturing anatomically and functionally accurate soft tissue phantoms with multimodality characteristics for imaging studies is disclosed. The organ/tissue phantom is constructed by filling a container containing an organ having inner vasculature therein with a molten elastomeric material; inserting a plurality of rods with bumps thereupon through the container and the organ; allowing the molten elastomeric material to harden and cure; removing the organ; replacing the organ with a plurality of elastomeric segments; and removing an elastomeric segment and replacing the void created thereupon with molten PVA to create a PVA segment; allowing the molten PVA segment to harden and cure; and repeating the creation of PVA segments until all the elastomeric segments have been removed, such that each successive molten PVA segment adheres to and fuses with the previous hardened PVA segment so as to form an approximately complete organ phantom cast. The organ/tissue phantom is completed by inserting the approximately complete organ phantom cast inserting upside-down into a fixture made from the bottom-most elastomeric segment, which contains molten PVA; and allowing the molten PVA to harden and cure.

An image processing method and system are described for processing medical images. The method comprises using a new coordinate system for representing combined image data of said plurality of medical images based on correlation information between image data of a plurality of medical images. The method further may comprise extracting such correlation information, and after said representing, mapping obtained image data to an antagonist colour space, thus resulting in visualisation with a fused image with high contrast and luminance and with particular human vision parameters relating to equalities and differences in the plurality of medical images studied.

The present invention relates to a single, fully integrated image archival and workflow system, that provides instantaneous access to a variety of software programs, which are customized using user-specific profiles from a database which includes predetermined workflow preferences. The customized software applications are used during image analysis and interpretation, and can be automated to be retrieved during image studies. When multiple programs are available for a given single study or combination of studies, then the system can either use preselected programs, or can allow the user the option of selecting the ones most appropriate for use. The system has the capability of obtaining feedback from the users as to whether the software was appropriate for the given study or studies for future reference.

Systems and methods for the distribution of diagnostic imaging studies include a first translator electrically coupled to an imaging device, the first translator being arranged an configured to receive an diagnostic imaging study from the imaging device, compress and encrypt the diagnostic imaging study, and transfer the diagnostic imaging study to one or more additional translators substantially simultaneously. The system may also include a second translator, the second translator being arranged and configured to decrypt and decompress the diagnostic imaging study and a network, coupled between the first translator and the second translator, the network being arranged to transfer the diagnostic image study from the first translator to at least the second translator.

The invention discloses a stereotactic, multifrequency and nondestructive focused ultrasound coronary artery in-vitro thrombus dissolving system, which is characterized in that: a positioning metal breast band is worn for performing image study and acquiring positioning image data; a medical image three-dimensional reconstruction technique is used to determine a lesion site and a treatment position; a multidimensional low-power and low-frequency ultrasonic transducer is placed on the same cut face of a coronary artery thrombosis lesion to form a stable ultrasonic cavitation effect in a thrombus or thrombosis lesion; a medium and/or high-frequency focused ultrasound transducer is used to irradiate the thrombus by a focused ultrasonic wave focal spot from a position of the same cut face of body surface which is most close to the thrombosis lesion; focused ultrasonic waves are focused with high power, high sound intensity and high accuracy and intermittently emitted in a pulse modulated ultrasonic wave mode in a short time to form instant instable ultrasonic wave cavitation effect in the thrombus to induce internal blasting in the thrombus, so that the thrombus disintegrates and dissolves quickly; and while the thrombus dissolves quickly and effectively, the inner walls of the blood vessels and normal cardiac muscular tissues around are not damaged, and an in-vitro nondestructive thrombus dissolving effect is achieved.

An annotation support system (10) comprising at least one display device (20). A context extraction module (24, 36) determines a context of a current medical image from a current image study. A matching module (26, 38) compares the context of the current medical image to contexts of prior medical images from prior image studies. A display module (28, 40) displays at least one of context relevant annotations and context relevant medical images from the prior image studies which match the context of the current medical study.

Certain examples provide systems and methods for memory and/or device-sensitive image viewing. An example method includes receiving a request for a medical image study display at a browser on a client device. The example method includes determining a size of the image study. The example method includes determining available space on the client device for image data storage. The example method includes determining a starting point for display of the image study via the browser. The example method includes pre-loading one or more images on the client device based on the starting point, image study size, and available space on the client device.

The present invention teaches a method wherein medical imaging studies are transformed from Identifiable Imaging Studies into Cleared Imaging Studies that can be legally and securely shared, either by automated removal of protected health information (PHI) or by verification that the studies belong to a Patient or Patient's Legal Representative and that a valid effective waiver, such as a HIPAA Waiver, is on file. Cleared Imaging Studies are shared by cloud-based storage and transmission to one or more Third Parties using one or more network-enabled devices. Methods are also provided for one or more users of network-enabled devices to view medical imaging studies simultaneously, with caching of imaging studies in local devices and separation of additional data streams used for collaborative image viewing to ensure that medical images are not degraded.

An apparatus is provided that includes a processor and memory storing executable instructions that in response to execution by the processor cause the apparatus to at least perform a number of operations. The apparatus is caused to query a search engine index based upon a user query including a search term, and based upon one or more synonyms of the term. The search engine index is of a database of unstructured, free-text reports, and the search engine index is queried to locate identifiers of image studies associated with reports including the search term or synonym(s). The apparatus may be caused to sort or filter the search results based on patient information from the image studies of the located identifiers, receive user selection of one or more image studies from the search results, and retrieve the selected one or more image studies.

A method of distributing an image study to a chosen image reader is disclosed having steps of receiving an image study from an image producer at a third party communication module, sending a receive notification message to a messaging layer, sending a study available notification message from the messaging layer to a workload distribution engine wherein the available notification message includes extracted image study information pulled from study headers of the image study, identifying image study rules from the extracted image study information, applying an image study complexity to the image study based on the image study rules, calculating image reader complexities for a plurality of image readers subscribed to receive image studies from the image producer, each of the image reader complexities calculated using the image study complexity and an Image reader profile assigned to each of the plurality of accredited image readers, selecting the chosen image reader from the plurality of image readers based on the image reader complexities, assigning the image study to the chosen image reader, and displaying the image study on a user interface to the chosen image reader.

The invention discloses an establishment method for an FMRI brain activation data warehouse. The method comprises the step that the establishment method for an FMRI data warehouse model is designed based on the mining function of the FMRI data warehouse model. The new technology is introduced, secondary analysis, processing and integration are performed on data, so that a new law is found, the deep mechanism of advanced brain activities is disclosed, and existing scattered brain function imaging data and results can be applied orderly. With the continuous development and improvement of the data warehouse, the services should also break through the management and decision-making range to extend towards other fields. In the face of the new requirements of brain function imaging studying, all the multiple functions, such as deep data mining, multi-dimensional analysis, dynamic inquiry and the like, of the data warehouse can be used as powerful tools, and a brand-new method is provided for brain function imaging studying.

Systems and methods for managing medical imaging workflow in an in-office or point-of-care setting outside of a conventional radiology workflow are provided. These system and methods allow for efficient medical imaging workflow management without a Radiology Information System (“RIS”). The systems and methods described here can provide a dual workflow functionality, in which images can be acquired and stored following a prepared medical imaging order according to an “orders first” workflow, or images can be acquired and stored without a prepared medical imaging order according to an “images first” workflow. In both instances, the systems and methods described here interact with the Long Term Archive to quarantine images with missing or incorrect metadata, and to update the quarantined images in an efficient manner to avoid orphaned image studies.

Methods described herein provide functionality for querying medical imaging studies across multiple facilities and repositories. One such embodiment creates an index of existing imaging study data stored at multiple repositories where the index is based on metadata regarding the existing imaging study data. Further, such an embodiment determines the existence of imaging study data relevant to an imaging study query using the created index.

Described herein is a computer implemented method that includes receiving at a data processor two or more digital data files representing medical images of a same modality; performing group-wise 3D registration of the digital data files representing medical images of a same modality; and parallel lesion detection and analysis on the digital data files representing the medical images.

The invention discloses a nano-gold self-assembled Si sheet material and application of the nano-gold self-assembled Si sheet material. According to the material, the SiO2-coated Si sheet serves as a substrate, the surface of SiO2 is subjected to amination modification, and the amination-modified SiO2-coated Si sheet is obtained; and then the surface of the amination-modified SiO2-coated Si sheet is formed by self-assembling nano-gold particles. According to the nano-gold self-assembled Si sheet material and application, the SERS substrate is produced by the adoption of the self-assembly manner, and the method is simple and convenient and fast to implement; and the enhancement effect is better when the prepared nano-gold self-assembled Si sheet material is used in an SERS imaging study of suspension cells, imaging of the cells suspension-cultured by the same culturing method can be achieved by means of the method, and adherent-cultured cells can be injected to the substrate dropwise after trypsinization by means of the same method for the test.