Susumu Mori;Andreia V. Faria;Michael I. Miller;Kenichi Oishi
发明人:
Susumu Mori,Michael I. Miller,Kenichi Oishi,Andreia V. Faria
申请号：
US13824853
公开号：
US09275456B2
申请日:
2011.10.25
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
An embodiment of the current invention includes a non-invasive imaging system, comprising: an imaging scanner suitable to generate an image representing a tissue region of a subject under observation, the tissue region having at least one substructure and the image comprising a plurality of image voxels； a signal processing system in communication with the imaging scanner to receive the imaging signal from the imaging scanner； and a data storage unit in communication with the signal processing system, wherein the data storage unit is configured to store: an atlas comprising spatial information of the at least one substructure in the tissue region, and a database comprising a plurality of pre-stored medical images representing the tissue region, and wherein the signal processing system is adapted to: identify, based on the atlas and for each of the at least one substructure, a corresponding portion of image voxels in the image； provide a computed quantification of the corresponding portion of image voxels for each of the at least one substructure of the tissue region by performing spatial filtering on the image； and search the database to provide at least one selected medical image from the plurality of pre-stored medical images, the at least one selected medical image having a corresponding quantification that is substantially similar to the computed quantification.
