US 7,412,111 B2 · Enhanced image processing method for the presentation of digitally-combined medical images

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and associated system for processing a digital medical image. The method includes defining a plurality regions of an initial digital medical image, wherein the initial digital medical image is a combined initial digital medical image formed from the digital pasting of a plurality of individual initial digital medical images, and wherein the initial digital medical image is an exposure-normalized initial digital medical image; measuring an intensity for each of the plurality of regions of the initial digital medical image; deriving an intensity weighting function using the intensity measured for each of the plurality of regions of the initial digital medical image; and applying the intensity weighting function to the initial digital medical image to form a final digital medical image.

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Dependent claims

A method for processing a digital image, comprising:

acquiring a plurality of sub-images;
pasting the plurality of sub-images together to form a single larger combined image;
defining a plurality of regions within the single larger combined image;
measuring an intensity for each of the plurality of regions within the single larger combined image;
deriving an intensity weighting function using the intensity measured for each of the plurality of regions within the single larger combined image;
and
applying the intensity weighting function to the single larger combined image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/993,082Filed 19 Nov 2004

Published

US 2006/0110064 A125 May 2006

Granted

12 Aug 2008

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

G06T 3/4038
Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting: image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
G06T 5/92
Dynamic range modification of images or parts thereof: based on global image properties
G06T 2207/10116
Image acquisition modality: x-ray image
G06T 2207/30004
Subject of image; Context of image processing: biomedical image processing

Enhanced image processing method for the presentation of digitally-combined medical images

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Enhanced image processing method for the presentation of digitally-combined medical images

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Abstract

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