Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a morphometric quantity of interest for a section of a human or animal organ on the basis of a first digital representation of a histological slide that has been subjected to a staining step that causes the pixels of said first digital representation to become different colours depending on whether said pixels describe emptiness, tissue or muscle cells. Said method especially consists in identifying pixels describing at least one polygon of interest in digital representations created from the first digital representation, in discerning, per polygon of interest, a lumen, an intima and a media of a vessel, and in producing at least one morphometric measurement of said vessel. Such a method comprises a step of producing a morphometric quantity of interest for the organ on the basis of said morphometric measurements of the identified vessels.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing variables of interest relating to human or animal hepatic tissue from a digital representation of a histological section. Such a method is intended to be implemented by a unit for processing a medical imaging system to automatically and quickly provide diagnosis assistance, in particular for NASH, to healthcare personnel. The variables of interest respectively describe a level of steatosis of the hepatic tissue, a level of fibrosis in the portal, central and perisinusoidal areas of the hepatic lobule and a level of inflammation of the hepatic tissue. A method according to the invention further provides for producing a multiparametric indicator in the form of graphical representations arranged to be displayed by an output human-machine interface of the medical imaging system.

Abstract: The invention is a method for analysing an object by x-ray diffraction spectroscopy, in which a spectroscopic detector comprising a plurality of adjacent pixels is placed facing an object irradiated by an x-ray beam. Each pixel is able to acquire an energy spectrum of radiation elastically scattered by the object, the radiation propagating in a direction making an acute angle to the propagation direction of the collimated beam. The method allows, on the basis of each measured spectrum, a nature of the materials composing various portions of the object to be determined.

Abstract: The invention is a method of calibrating an X ray diffraction measuring system. The method includes moving a so-called calibration object along a propagation axis along which an irradiation beam propagates, the calibration object being adapted to occupy a plurality of successive positions along that axis. At each position of the object a spectrometry detector including at least one pixel acquires a spectrum of scattering radiation emitted by the object at an acute angle relative to the propagation axis. The method includes, in various spectra corresponding to various respective positions of the object, the identification of a so-called calibration peak and obtaining a parameter of said peak, which parameter can be the intensity or the energy of said peak. The parameters obtained on the various peaks then make it possible to establish an associated pixel dispersion function.