| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7616792 |
Scale selection for anisotropic scale-space: application to volumetric tumor characterization |
November 10, 2009 |
| A method for determining a structure in volumetric data includes determining an anisotropic scale-space for a local region around a given spatial local maximum, determining L-normalized scale-space derivatives in the anisotropic scale-space, and determining the presence of noise in t |
| 7602941 |
Component fusion for face detection |
October 13, 2009 |
| A system and method for object detection are provided where the system includes a component detection unit for detecting components in an image, a component fusion unit in signal communication with the component detection unit for fusing the components into an object, and a CPU in si |
| 7583831 |
System and method for using learned discriminative models to segment three dimensional colon ima |
September 1, 2009 |
| A system and method for using learned discriminative models to segment a border of an anatomical structure in a three dimensional (3D) image is disclosed. A discriminative probability model is computed for each voxel in the 3D image. Thresholding is performed on each discriminative p |
| 7558413 |
Method for detecting polyps in a three dimensional image volume |
July 7, 2009 |
| A method for detecting target objects in a three dimensional (3D) image volume of an anatomical structure is disclosed. A set of candidate locations in the image volume are obtained. For each candidate location, sub-volumes of at least two different scales are cropped out. Each sub-v |
| 7558402 |
System and method for tracking a global shape of an object in motion |
July 7, 2009 |
| A system and method for tracking a global shape of an object in motion is disclosed. One or more control points along an initial contour of the global shape are defined. Each of the one or more control points is tracked as the object is in motion. Uncertainty of a location of a contr |
| 7555151 |
System and method for tracking anatomical structures in three dimensional images |
June 30, 2009 |
| A system and method for defining and tracking a deformable shape of a candidate anatomical structure wall in a three dimensional (3D) image is disclosed. The shape of the candidate anatomical structure is represented by a plurality of labeled 3D landmark points. At least one 3D landmark |
| 7542592 |
Systems and methods for face detection and recognition using infrared imaging |
June 2, 2009 |
| Methods for image processing for detecting and recognizing an image object include detecting an image object using pose-specific object detectors, and performing fusion of the outputs from the pose-specific object detectors. The image object is recognized using pose-specific object r |
| 7536044 |
System and method for detecting and matching anatomical structures using appearance and shape |
May 19, 2009 |
| A detection framework that matches anatomical structures using appearance and shape is disclosed. A training set of images are used in which object shapes or structures are annotated in the images. A second training set of images represents negative examples for such shapes and structure |
| 7526414 |
Density morphing and mode propagation for Bayesian filtering |
April 28, 2009 |
| A system and method for modeling a dynamic system using Bayesian filtering, includes a prediction module to predict a state model of the dynamic system, the prediction module generates a prediction density having at least one mode, the state model includes a conditional density funct |
| 7499570 |
Illumination invariant change detection |
March 3, 2009 |
| A system and method for illumination invariant change detection are provided, the system including a processor, an energy ranking unit in signal communication with the processor for extracting block coefficients for the first and second images and computing an energy difference respo |
| 7480079 |
System and method for sequential kernel density approximation through mode propagation |
January 20, 2009 |
| A system and method for sequential kernel density approximation uses mode propagation to determine mode locations by the mean-shift method and reduce the generated modes. Hessians are calculated corresponding to the mode locations to determine the covariance. Density is approximated to |
| 7474790 |
Multiscale detection of local image structures |
January 6, 2009 |
| A method and apparatus for the detection of local image structures represented as clusters in a joint-spatial range domain where the method comprises receiving an input image made having one or more clusters in a joint-spatial range domain, and each of the one or more clusters having a |
| 7447333 |
Video and audio monitoring for syndromic surveillance for infectious diseases |
November 4, 2008 |
| We present, in exemplary embodiments of the present invention, novel systems and methods for syndromic surveillance that can automatically monitor symptoms that may be associated with the early presentation of a syndrome (e.g., fever, coughing, sneezing, runny nose, sniffling, rashes |
| 7446798 |
Real-time obstacle detection with a calibrated camera and known ego-motion |
November 4, 2008 |
| A method and system of real-time obstacle detection from a moving vehicle is provided. The method and system use a calibrated image capturing device. The method and system use a motion estimation technique to pick points with reliable image motion flows, and performs very fast sparse |
| 7436980 |
Graphical object models for detection and tracking |
October 14, 2008 |
| A computer implemented method for object detection includes providing a spatio-temporal model for an object to be detected, providing a video including a plurality of images including the object, and measuring the object as a collection of components in each image. The method further |
| 7421415 |
Methods and systems for 3D object detection using learning |
September 2, 2008 |
| In a method of 3D object detection, a learning procedure is used for feature selection from a feature set based on an annotated image-volume database, generating a set of selected features. A classifier is built using a classification scheme to distinguish between an object location |
| 7421101 |
System and method for local deformable motion analysis |
September 2, 2008 |
| A system and method for local deformable motion analysis accurately tracks the motion of an object such that local motion of an object is isolated from global motion of an object. The object is viewed in an image sequence and image regions are sampled to identify object image regions |
| 7356521 |
System and method for automatic molecular diagnosis of ALS based on boosting classification |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method for diagnosing Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis includes providing surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionisation mass spectrometric (SELDI-MS) data of a plurality of proteins, said data obtained from a patient and comprising a plurality of peak values, and analysing said peak va |
| 7308132 |
Method for robust scale-space analysis of 3D local structures in medical images |
December 11, 2007 |
| A method for determining the location, shape and orientation of a tumor in a medical image includes finding a plurality of spatial extrema .mu. of a D-dimensional spatial signal f for a set of bandwidths H by performing mean shift-based gradient-ascent iterations for a set of bandwidths |
| 7298868 |
Density estimation-based information fusion for multiple motion computation |
November 20, 2007 |
| A fusion estimator is determined as the location of the most significant mode of a density function, which takes into account the uncertainty of the estimates to be fused. A mode detection method relies on mode tracking across scales. The fusion estimator is consistent and conservati |
| 7072494 |
Method and system for multi-modal component-based tracking of an object using robust information |
July 4, 2006 |
| A system and method for tracking an object is disclosed. A video sequence including a plurality of image frames are received. A sample based representation of object appearance distribution is maintained. An object is divided into one or more components. For each component, its location |
| 6999004 |
System and method for vehicle detection and tracking |
February 14, 2006 |
| A system and method for vehicle detection and tracking in tunnels is provided. The method comprises the steps of capturing a plurality of image frames viewing at least one traffic lane; extracting at least one feature from the plurality of image frames; detecting at least one object |
