Patents by Inventor Michael Suhling

Michael Suhling 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).

  • Publication number: 20090244060
    Abstract: A visualization of an image data record of an organ enclosing a cavity, in particular a CT image data record of a colon, that is reliable and has a low level of computational complexity, is performed according to a method. In at least one embodiment of the method a virtual viewer position outside the organ tissue is defined; an interface between the organ tissue and the cavity is defined with the aid of the image data record; from the middle of the cavity local gradients, that specify the rise in the absorption behavior between a gas contained in the cavity and the organ tissue, are determined; starting from the viewer position, a search beam is defined and an angle between the search beam and the gradients is determined; and a transparency value is allocated to the organ tissue as a function of the angle during visualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Suhling, Fernando Vega-Higuera
  • Publication number: 20090022261
    Abstract: A method is described for evaluating a tomography data record. In at least one embodiment, a tomography data record of a hollow organ is generated, the tomography data record is analyzed automatically, and organ sections to be assessed as critical are determined. Further, a corresponding findings list entry is generated in a findings list as a reaction to a determined organ section to be assessed as critical, various organ sections are displayed successively on the basis of the tomography data record, and after its first display, an organ section assessed as critical can be selected for renewed display directly via the findings list. Furthermore, a corresponding tomography workstation is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Suhling, Matthias Thorn
  • Publication number: 20080181474
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for registering at least three different image data records for an object. In at least one embodiment, the method involves first of all determining for each image data record the anatomical region which is covered by the image data record. Next, degrees of overlap in these anatomical regions are calculated. These degrees of overlap are taken as a basis for determining the image data record as a master image data record which, in total, has a maximum overlap with the other image data records, ignoring degrees of overlap which are below a prescribable lower threshold. The other image data records are then registered merely with the master image data record. Thus, they are automatically also indirectly registered with one another. At least one embodiment of the present method and the associated apparatus reduce the waiting time for the user who wishes to visualize a plurality of the image data records simultaneously next to one another or superimposed on one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Andreas Dejon, Lutz Gundel, Friedrich Knoth, Michael Suhling
  • Publication number: 20080080757
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for the segmented representation of vessel-like structures of an object under examination, on the basis of tomographic data, wherein a three-dimensional tomographic volume data record of the object under examination is generated and a segmentation is carried out which enhances the vessel-like structures in the representation of the tomographic data. According to an embodiment of the invention, for each voxel, the probability with which the voxel is located in a vessel structure is determined from the environmental data of the voxel with the aid of a vessel-specific filter of a spatial dimension which corresponds to the tomographic volume data record, on the basis of Gaussian functions, and these determined probabilities are additionally used as criterion for the presence of a vessel in the segmentation process for the representation of vessel structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Scheuering, Michael Suhling
  • Publication number: 20070255133
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for mathematically generating a virtual catheter in tomographic volume data in which the virtual catheter is assembled from a multiplicity of catheter segments, each of which being separately describable in a closed mathematical expression and each being approximated to the measured volume data by error calculation and variation of their parameters. In at least one embodiment, transition criteria between the surfaces and the center lines of the virtual segments which create smooth transitions, and thus already predetermine a multiplicity of parameters of the segment following in each case, are used in order to reduce the parameters to be adapted. The description of the envelope of the segments and of the center line of the segments by way of second-degree polynomials is particularly suitable for representation in a mathematically closed form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventor: Michael Suhling
  • Publication number: 20070047792
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for identification of a contrasted blood vessel in digital 3D image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Michael Scheuering, Michael Suhling