3D ULTRASOUND-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF FLUID-FILLED AND NON FLUID-FILLED STRUCTURES

3D ULTRASOUND-BASED INSTRUMENT FOR NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF FLUID-FILLED AND NON FLUID-FILLED STRUCTURES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide better, non-invasive, and easier ways to accurately measure amniotic fluid volume to solve the problem that none of the currently used methods for AF volume estimation are ideal. SOLUTION: The method for determining the areas and volumes of structures from an image....

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Hauptverfasser: DUDYCHA STEPHEN, CHALANA VIKRAM, MCMORROW GERALD
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DIAGNOSIS
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
PHYSICS
SURGERY
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide better, non-invasive, and easier ways to accurately measure amniotic fluid volume to solve the problem that none of the currently used methods for AF volume estimation are ideal. SOLUTION: The method for determining the areas and volumes of structures from an image. A digital image is acquired (410), enhanced (418), and parallel processed by intensity-based segmentation (422) and edge-based segmentation (438) methods. After segmentation by both processes, the images are combined by an AND operator (442), and polished (464). The segmented image is then outputted (480) and the area or volume of the structure is computed (484). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT