Patents by Inventor Zongan LIANG

Zongan LIANG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10217216
    Abstract: A X-ray chest image rib suppression method based on Poisson model. It conducts contourlet transformation on the image and utilizes transformation coefficient correlation between different scales to conduct texture enhancement on the image; it designs strip-type detection filter in accordance with the Hessian matrix eigenvalue to the image and detects the area where the rib locates in; it combines enhanced texture and rib area information, establishes and solves rib suppression Poisson model, realizing the rib suppression in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junfeng Wang, Lin Gao, Fan Li, Yulin Ji, Zongan Liang
  • Patent number: 10210614
    Abstract: A lung lobe contour extraction method aiming at DR radiography, which includes the steps: Obtain the representative lung lobe contour template through offline training; initialize the extraction system of contour lobe area in the chest DR radiography; According to dimension of DICOM image, conduct three-layer pyramid decomposition on the images; Use Gabor filter bank to rebuild pending images; Convert residual error of the rebuilt image by the Gabor filter into black and white image; Use Zhan-Suen refinement algorithm to refine the black and white image; Call every template of the offline training and use them as the convolution kernel operator, conduct convolution on the contour imagep; Filter the local optimum convolution value with optimum possibility from the convolution results and combine the evaluations; Generate the lung lobe contour shape in accordance with the upper and lower templates of optimum matching and its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junfeng Wang, Peng Tang, Yulin Ji, Zongan Liang, Yihua Du
  • Patent number: 10147187
    Abstract: A DR radiography lung contour extraction method based on fully convolutional network, which includes the steps: Establish the fully convolutional network structure of lung contour segmentation; Conduct off-line training on the weighting parameters of the fully convolutional network; Read DR image and weighting parameters of the fully convolutional network; Input DR image into fully convolutional network and output segmentation results of image through network terminal with network layer-by-layer feedforward. Establish lung contour in accordance with segmentation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junfeng Wang, Peng Tang, Fan Li, Yihua Du, Yulin Ji, Zongan Liang
  • Publication number: 20180130202
    Abstract: A DR radiography lung contour extraction method based on fully convolutional network, which includes the steps: Establish the fully convolutional network structure of lung contour segmentation; Conduct off-line training on the weighting parameters of the fully convolutional network; Read DR image and weighting parameters of the fully convolutional network; Input DR image into fully convolutional network and output segmentation results of image through network terminal with network layer-by-layer feedforward. Establish lung contour in accordance with segmentation results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junfeng WANG, Peng TANG, Fan LI, Yihua Du, Yulin JI, Zongan LIANG
  • Publication number: 20180082423
    Abstract: A lung lobe contour extraction method aiming at DR radiography, which includes the steps: Obtain the representative lung lobe contour template through offline training; initialize the extraction system of contour lobe area in the chest DR radiography; According to dimension of DICOM image, conduct three-layer pyramid decomposition on the images; Use Gabor filter bank to rebuild pending images; Convert residual error of the rebuilt image by the Gabor filter into black and white image; Use Zhan-Suen refinement algorithm to refine the black and white image; Call every template of the offline training and use them as the convolution kernel operator, conduct convolution on the contour imagep; Filter the local optimum convolution value with optimum possibility from the convolution results and combine the evaluations; Generate the lung lobe contour shape in accordance with the upper and lower templates of optimum matching and its position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junfeng WANG, Peng TANG, Yulin JI, Zongan LIANG, Yihua DU
  • Publication number: 20170337686
    Abstract: A X-ray chest image rib suppression method based on Poisson model. It conducts contourlet transformation on the image and utilizes transformation coefficient correlation between different scales to conduct texture enhancement on the image; it designs strip-type detection filter in accordance with the Hessian matrix eigenvalue to the image and detects the area where the rib locates in; it combines enhanced texture and rib area information, establishes and solves rib suppression Poisson model, realizing the rib suppression in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junfeng WANG, Lin GAO, Fan LI, Yulin JI, Zongan LIANG