Patents Assigned to AGFA-Healthcare
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Patent number: 10332626Abstract: A system and corresponding method for data processing, in particular sensor data processing, includes at least two first modules that generate or capture first data, at least one second module that retrieves the first data from first modules which correspond to first modules of at least one predefined set of first modules, and a third module that processes the first data which were retrieved by the at least one second module. The relevant data captured by a plurality of different data capturing modules, in particular sensors, are made available in a processing module in a fast and reliable manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE GMBHInventors: Hendrik Becker, Ullrich Rentel
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Patent number: 10310778Abstract: A system and method for printing medical images is provided. The system includes a client device and a server in data communication with the client device. The client device includes a communication subsystem for receiving medical images from the server; a user interface device for displaying the medical images in an Internet browser and receiving a request to print at least one selected medical image; and a processor coupled to a memory for storing a plurality of instructions. The processor can be configured for generating a base model that includes at least one page required to print the at least one selected medical image, generating a printable model by, for each of the at least one selected medical image, rendering that selected image to an image element of a page of the base model; and transferring the printable model to a model printable by the Internet browser.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE N.V.Inventors: Giovan Giuseppe Boccanfuso, Robert A. Lowe
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Publication number: 20190125292Abstract: A radiation image capturing system includes a processing unit that determines at least three distances between at least one first distance sensor provided at a radiation generation unit and at least three second distance sensors provided at a detection unit based on one or more signals emitted by the first distance sensor, and that determines an orientation of the radiation generation unit and the detection unit relative to each other based on inclination information provided by a first sensor unit provided at the radiation generation unit and a second sensor unit provided at the detection unit. Alternatively, the processing unit determines distances between at least three first distance sensors provided at the radiation generation unit and at least three second distance sensors provided at the detection unit based on signals emitted by the at least three first distance sensors to determine an orientation of the radiation generation unit and the detection unit relative to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NVInventors: Rainer NEBOSIS, Vladimir ZEMANEK, Johannes HOELZL, Georg REISER, Roland REUTER
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Publication number: 20190125285Abstract: A mobile radiation image capturing system includes a radiation generation unit that generates X-ray radiation; a mobile carriage on which the radiation generation unit is mounted; a drive unit that moves the carriage by linear motion in two dimensions and/or by rotation; at least one detection unit that captures a radiation image of an object; at least one sensor unit that determines an orientation and/or a position of the radiation generation unit and the detection unit relative to each other; at least one output unit that output information to a user; and a processing unit that, based on the orientation and/or position of the radiation generation unit and the detection unit relative to each other, determines whether the radiation generation unit and the detection unit have a predetermined orientation and/or position relative to each other and, if not, determines a positioning information on how to move the carriage and/or the radiation generation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NVInventors: Rainer NEBOSIS, Vladimir ZEMANEK
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Patent number: 10127683Abstract: A short axis in a 3 dimensional image of a lesion is determined starting from voxels defining the long axis and voxels in the plane of the long axis. Voxels within the plane of the long axis are projected perpendicularly onto the long axis and receive an identifier indicative of the region on the long axis onto which they are projected. Distances between points (projected sub-voxels) in pairs of points within the same range and within adjacent ranges are evaluated in order to determine the longest distance.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Asma Ouji, Yoni De Witte
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Patent number: 10067243Abstract: A scintillator includes CsBrxI(1-x) doped with Europium (CsBrxI(1-x):Eu) wherein x<0.5, and is obtained by annealing CsBrxI(1-x):Eu material at a temperature from 50° C. to 280° C. The EPR spectrum of the obtained scintillator measured at room temperature at a frequency of 34 GHz shows a maximum signal height at a magnetic field of 1200 mT, and the signal height at 1090 mT and 1140 mT does not exceed 40%, wherein the normalized signal height percentage at 1200 mT is calculated to be 100%. The scintillator is useful in a high energy radiation detection and radiography imaging apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Ilse Mans, Sabina Elen, Paul Leblans, Luc Struye, Freddy Callens, Henk Vrielinck
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Patent number: 10068319Abstract: A method for processing a frame in a sequence of successively acquired frames in dynamic digital radiography includes the multi-scale representation of frames being subjected to temporal filtering by adding at least one correction image to a corresponding detail image(s) in the multi-scale representations of a frame of interest, the correction image being computed by combining clipped difference images obtained as the difference between the multi-scale representation of the frame of interest and the multi-scale representations of a selection of other frames in said sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventor: Tom Bertens
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Publication number: 20180211004Abstract: A system and method for providing breast image data. A transmission request is transmitted from a workstation to an imaging server with identifying characteristics for a mammography image. A pre-determined breast window for the mammography image is identified. An unprocessed image stored on the server that corresponds to the mammography image is identified, and breast image data can be determined for unprocessed image. The breast image data includes a breast window image that can be determined by applying the pre-determined breast window to the unprocessed image. The breast image data is transmitted to the clinician workstation, and the breast window image is displayed at the clinician workstation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Agfa HealthCare Inc.Inventor: Viktor Kopylov
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Publication number: 20180166161Abstract: A workflow management system for medical report production includes a workflow database that stores workflows, a user database that stores users, a task configurator that generates and configures tasks for production of a medical report in correspondence with rules of a workflow out of the workflows and assigns the tasks to users out of the user database, the tasks including at least one multi-author task, and an exclusion list manager that maintains an exclusion list of excluded authors for the multi-author task, wherein the task configurator is operationally coupled to the exclusion list manager and adapted to exclude the excluded authors when assigning the multi-author task to users.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NVInventors: Nancy SAMI, Wim GEERAERTS, Olivier DEBELS, Caroline BOGAERT
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Patent number: 9996951Abstract: A computerized tomographic image exposure and reconstruction method wherein an object is subjected to irradiation during a relative movement of a source of radiation, the object, and a radiation detector and wherein a digital representation of the radiation image of the object is computed by applying a tomographic reconstruction algorithm to image data read out of the irradiated radiation detector. A number of projection images are generated, each of the projection images being generated by integrating X-ray beams continuously emitted during the relative movement through a predefined movement path, and the created projection images are modeled in a tomographic reconstruction algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: Agfa HealthCare, Universiteit AntwerpenInventors: Jan Sijbers, Jeroen Cant
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Patent number: 9984210Abstract: A method for performing a job list of radiographic recordings indicated in a radiographic information systems includes communicating the job list to a mobile apparatus, e.g. a smartphone, whereby, in a first step, a peer-to-peer communication is set up between the radiographic information system and the mobile apparatus by a Near Field Communication technique, whereupon the job list is transmitted to the mobile apparatus via a WIFI peer-to-peer communication. A radiographer then completes the job list by using, inter alia, a self-triggering direct radiographic panel and a radiographic generator.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Wim Govaerts, Patrick Pandelaers
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Patent number: 9984458Abstract: Vascular structures are segmented by a locally adaptive method based on iterative region growing and morphological operations.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Asma Ouji, Yoni De Witte
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Patent number: 9913621Abstract: An offset of an actual positional relationship of a radiation source and an object from a reference positional relationship is determined and taken into account when positioning and/or tilting and/or collimating the radiation source so as to irradiate a region of interest of the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Agfa HealthCare NVInventors: Wim Govaerts, Yves Vanmeenen, Danny Janssens
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Publication number: 20180032677Abstract: A data processing system for determining an availability speed of a medical image includes a client sends a request for viewing the medical image, a server that provides the client with the medical image upon reception of the request, an availability determining unit configured to: determine a download path to be followed by the medical image within the data processing system in order to be made available to the client, retrieve configuration parameters indicative for a transfer speed along the download path, and determine the availability speed of the medical image from the download path and from the configuration parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NVInventor: Roel ADRIAENSENS
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Patent number: 9874643Abstract: A storage phosphor plate assembly includes at least one storage phosphor plate having a storage phosphor layer for storing X-ray information and a substrate layer on which the storage phosphor layer is provided. The substrate layer contains a permanent magnetic material, and a support plate contains a magnetic material, the at least one storage phosphor plate being held on the support plate due to magnetic forces. The invention further relates to an X ray cassette and a system for reading out storage phosphor plate. An easy and safe handling of storage phosphor plates of various sizes and/or forms, in particular during the read-out process in the read-out system, is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Anton Pirmann, Stephan Mair
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Publication number: 20170340305Abstract: A motion correction method includes two steps. The first step includes a global motion correction using the bilinear warping technique and a rough delineation of the lung fields. One of the native images (low energy image, high energy image) is deformed to match the other image. In a second step, local motion corrections are applied to the globally motion corrected image by computing a proximity value in small overlapping tiles. Only tiles with a sufficient high proximity value are taken into account. The maximum shift applied in this second step is limited to a few pixels to avoid strong deformations of the native images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NVInventor: Tom BERTENS
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Publication number: 20170344712Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of querying a data repository wherein a software image is generated of at least one of a pre-compiled semantic reasoning engine, a set of pre-compiled fact data, and pre-compiled reasoning rules. At runtime additional run time data and/or run time reasoning rules are loaded. A query is specified and solved by means of the software image and the additional run time data and/or runtime rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Agfa HealthCare NVInventors: Kristof DEPRAETERE, Hong SUN, Jos DE ROO, Dirk COLAERT
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Patent number: 9831007Abstract: A radiographic flat panel detector includes a layer configuration in the order given: a) a radiation transparent substrate; and b) a scintillator layer applied by vapor deposition on the radiation transparent substrate; and c) an imaging array between the scintillator layer and a second substrate, characterized in that the radiation transparent substrate has on a side a layer including magnetisable particles and a method for producing the radiographic flat panel detector.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventors: Paul Leblans, Luc Struye, Ilse Mans, Sabina Elen
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Patent number: 9786049Abstract: Volume data representing a radiation image of an object are subjected to a coarse filtering process to obtain a first classification including support type and non-support type components. An iteration of low threshold filtering steps and successive extraction and classification of connected components is performed and used to rectify the result of the coarse filtering process. A further filtering is based on the location of the connected components in the volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NVInventor: Asma Ouji
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Patent number: 9763635Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for reliably identifying a specific part of a spine in an image of a human or animal body, includes the steps of determining one or more parts of the spine in the image, determining one or more discriminative parameters for each of the one or more parts of the spine in the image, the discriminative parameters relating to at least one anatomical property of each of the one or more parts of the spine, classifying the discriminative parameters of the one or more parts of the spine in the image, and identifying a specific part of the spine based on the classification of the discriminative parameters of the one or more parts of the spine in the image. An identified vertebra, in particular the T12 vertebra and/or its associated intervertebral discs, can be used advantageously as a starting point of powerful automatic spine labeling algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignees: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV, VRVIS ZENTRUM FÜR VIRTUAL REALITY UND VISUALISIERUNG FORSCHUNGS-GMB, IMP FORSCHUNGINSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PATHOLOGIE GMBHInventors: Jiri Hladuvka, David Major, Katja Buehler