Abstract: A method and system for remotely viewing and configuring output from a medical imager is described. A medical imager having an embedded web server generates an HTML document according to medical images received from various medical modalities. Imaging information is communicated in the HTML document to allow a remote machine to manipulate the images and display the images in a manner that accurately represents their printed output by the imager. The invention thus provides accurate viewing of the medical images from a remote machine and facilitates remote configuration of the medical imager. Other advantages include the ability to easily select conversion mechanisms best suited for specific requirements of the hospital's medical modalities without traveling to the hospital and burdening medical staff. The present invention also allows for remote monitoring of operation statistics such as usage of imaging media and other supplies.

Abstract: A method and software system for processing images having reconfigurable communication pipelines. The system includes an image processor that instantiates a film module and dynamically creates an image module for each image to be processed. The image processor couples each image module to the film module by a unique communication pipeline according to imaging commands received from an input imaging device. The present invention is applicable to the general field of image processing and may be implemented in any general image output device. In one embodiment, the software system is embedded in a discrete continuous tone laser imager that is directly connected to one or more medical imaging modalities. In another embodiment, the laser imager is directly connected to a network of medical imaging modalities. In yet another embodiment, the software system is executed by an intermediate computer that interfaces an output imaging device to a plurality of networked medical imaging modalities.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for forming a rotated image on an imaging element without requiring vast amounts of physical memory, virtual memory or specialized hardware. Furthermore, the system and technique is efficient and inexpensive to implement.The present invention effects efficient image rotation by decomposing the image into an array of data blocks defined by a plurality of data block columns and a plurality of data block rows. The present invention independently rotates each data block and writes the rotated data block to a temporary image file starting at a corresponding calculated position. The starting position is such that during a post-processing phase a plurality of rotated data blocks are retrieved and easily processed to form at least one complete scan line of pixels. Finally, the imaging element is sequentially exposed by a radiation source to form each scan line on the imaging element, thereby forming a rotated image on the imaging element.

Abstract: A system and method for delineating the edges of an object in an image frame formed of a two dimensional array of pixels represented by a plurality of gray scale values representing the gray scales of the pixels. A reference contrast level based on the distribution of contrast levels between contiguous pixels is established, and the contrast levels of pairs of pixels in square groupings of four contigous pixels are compared with the reference contrast level. A two dimensional array of elements corresponding to the arrangement of the square groupings of pixels is formed in which each element has a first value only if the contrast level between a pair of pixels in a square grouping is greater than the reference contrast level.

Abstract: A system and method for determining and representing the edges of an object in an image frame formed of a two dimensional array of pixels represented by a first array of values, each value representing the gray scale of a separate pixel in the image frame. A second two dimensional array of values is produced comprising a first value for each pixel whose gray scale value is less than or equal to the threshold value and a second value for each pixel whose gray scale value is greater than the threshold value. Square groupings of four values in the second array of values are examined and a third two dimensional array of values is produced to correspond to the arrangement of the square groupings of four adjacent pixels, each of the values in the third array having a third value if diagonally located values of the grouping are the same, and having a fourth value if the diagonally located values of the grouping are different.