Patents by Inventor Xueli Wang
Xueli Wang 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).
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Patent number: 12283043Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a tissue boundary determination apparatus and method. The tissue boundary determination method includes acquiring multiple slice images of multiple positions of a tissue to be examined, determining, with regard to at least one first selected slice image of the multiple slice images, a tissue boundary on the first selected slice image, and determining, according to the tissue boundary on the first selected slice image, tissue boundaries on a predetermined number of other slice images adjacent to the first selected slice image. Therefore, an accurate tissue (such as malignant tumor) boundary may be acquired efficiently so as to provide a reference basis for analysis on internal and external tissue of a tumor.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Yan Sun, Xueli Wang, Mingyang Yang, Bingjie Zhao
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Publication number: 20250099051Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for an imaging system, a X-ray filtering apparatus, and an imaging system. The apparatus includes: a first filter assembly, including at least one filter and located on one side of the path of a radiation beam; a second filter assembly, including at least one filter and located on the other side of the path of the radiation beam; and a driving system, used for moving the first filter assembly and the second filter assembly relative to each other to move one filter in the first filter assembly and/or one filter in the second filter assembly into the path of the radiation beam; wherein in a path direction of the radiation beam, the first filter assembly includes at least a first layer of filters and a second layer of filters located at different heights, and the second filter assembly includes at least a third layer of filters, the third layer of filters being located at a different height than the first layer of filters or the second layer of filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Xueli Wang, Dan Liu, Yuwen Dong, Liya Cao
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Publication number: 20250104235Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present application are a medical image processing method and apparatus and a medical device. The medical image processing method includes acquiring raw projection data obtained after a subject to be examined is scanned, and performing reconstruction to obtain a raw medical image, performing multivalued processing on the raw medical image to obtain a multivalued image, according to a correspondence between a degree of contribution, relating to a ray absorption amount, of each tissue on a ray path that does not pass through a specific material site in the multivalued image and a raw projection value corresponding to the ray path in the raw projection data, determining a predicted projection value of a path corresponding to the specific material site in the raw projection data, and obtaining a first medical image according to the predicted projection value and the raw projection data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Xueli Wang, Hongyu Li
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Publication number: 20250040896Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a medical imaging method and apparatus. The method includes acquiring a region of interest on a scout image of a subject using a deep learning method, determining a geometric center of an organ of interest of the subject according to the region of interest, and, according to the geometric center of the organ of interest and a geometric rotation center of a medical imaging device, driving a table to move. According to the embodiments of the present application, automatic movement of the table is achieved so that the geometric center of the organ of interest is close to the geometric rotation center of the medical imaging device, enabling diagnostic images to have higher image quality, including a higher image resolution. In addition, rays passing through the geometric rotation center of the medical imaging device are fully utilized, improving the dose efficiency of the rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Xueli Wang, Bingjie Zhao, Yuwen Dong
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Publication number: 20250037329Abstract: A Computed Tomography (CT) image generating method and an image data reconstruction device are provided. The method includes acquiring projection measurement data of a subject scanned by a CT device, reconstructing an initial scan image on the basis of the projection measurement data, wherein the initial scan image includes a plurality of slice images, and at least one of the slice images includes a main region image within a scan field of view and a truncated region image out of the scan field of view, determining whether a particular type of substance is present in the plurality of slice images, and performing artifact removal reconstruction on at least one of the slice images in response to determining that the substance is present in a truncated region image of the slice images, the artifact removal reconstruction being used to remove, from the slice images, artifacts caused by the substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Bingjie Zhao, Xueli Wang, Weiwei Xing
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Publication number: 20240421295Abstract: A method for preparing molybdenum-based self-doped lithium-ion battery negative electrode material from molybdenum-containing waste catalyst includes: (1) calcinating and mechanically activating a waste hydrogenation catalyst containing molybdenum trioxide and aluminum oxide to obtain an oil-free and carbon-free micron-sized waste catalyst powder; (2) mixing the waste catalyst powder with sodium carbonate to obtain a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to thermal treatment to selectively convert molybdenum trioxide in the waste catalyst into sodium molybdate to obtain a clinker; (3) subjecting the clinker to leaching with water being used as a leaching agent, and collecting a leaching solution; and (4) mixing the leaching solution with a solution of a polyol containing a ferrous salt, subjecting the resulting mixture to a hydrothermal reaction, and collecting produced self-Al-doped ferrous molybdate to obtain the molybdenum-based self-doped lithium-ion battery negative electrode material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Guoyong HUANG, Jiawei WEN, Xueli WANG, Wenjie ZHANG, Maolin TIAN, Tongjun SHEN, Mingshuai WU
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Publication number: 20240413353Abstract: A method includes 1) removal oil from aluminum-based platinum rhenium-containing spent catalysts; 2) mixing the spent catalyst and sodium hydroxide powder and heating in an oxygen-free environment to obtain a clinker; 3) leaching the clinker in a weakly alkaline aqueous solution to obtain a first leach solution containing the elements Al and Re and a first leach residue containing Pt and Re; 4) converting the first leaching solution into a sodium meta-aluminate solution and a sodium perrhenate solution; 5) adding an aqueous solution of an acidic reagent and an aqueous solution of an oxidizing reagent to the first leaching residue for oxidizing acid leaching to obtain a second leaching solution containing precursors including platinum and rhenium; 6) reducing and loading the precursors on a carbon carrier to obtain the modified platinum based catalyst for fuel cell. The method enables the recovery of Re and Al elements from spent catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Guoyong Huang, Jiawei Wen, Maolin Tian, Jian Cui, Xueli Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Mingshuai Wu, Tongjun Shen
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Publication number: 20240144556Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a computed tomography imaging method and apparatus. The method includes pre-scanning an examined site by using an incomplete detector at a pitch factor of greater than 3 to obtain first data, axially scanning the examined site using the incomplete detector to obtain second data, stitching the first data and the second data to obtain third data; compensating the third data to obtain compensated third data, and performing image reconstruction by using the compensated third data to obtain a scanned image. Therefore, by performing two scans using an incomplete detector, stitching and compensating data obtained by the two scans, while reducing the total dose of X-rays, the integrity of the obtained data is ensured, and the image quality of the final obtained scanned image is maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Weiwei Xing, Xueli Wang, Bingjie Zhao
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Publication number: 20240104802Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a medical image processing method and apparatus and a medical device, the medical image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit, configured to acquire raw local projection data obtained by a detector after an object to be examined is scanned, a processing unit, configured to recover the raw local projection data to estimate first global data, a determination unit, configured to determine second global data according to the raw local projection data and the first global data, and a reconstruction unit, configured to reconstruct the second global data to obtain a diagnostic image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Bingjie Zhao, Weiwei Xing, Xueli Wang
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Patent number: 11685868Abstract: A catalytic cracking gasoline upgrading method is provided. First, in the presence of a prehydrogenation catalyst, the full-range FCC gasoline undergoes prehydrogenation in a prehydrogenation reactor to remove diolefins, mercaptans and sulfides, and then the prehydrogenation product undergoes selective hydrodesulfurization in the presence of a hydrodesulfurization-isomerization catalyst, and straight-chain olefins are isomerized into single-branched olefins or single-branched alkanes, thus obtaining a low-olefin, ultralow-sulfur and high-octane clean gasoline product.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Tinghai Wang, Yuanyuan Yue, Xiaojun Bao, Xueli Wang, Jie Liu, Pei Yuan, Haibo Zhu, Zhengshuai Bai
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Patent number: 11674091Abstract: A catalytic cracking gasoline prehydrogenation method is provided. Thiol etherification and double bond isomerization reactions are carried out on catalytic cracking gasoline through a prehydrogenation reactor. The reaction conditions are as follows: the reaction temperature is between 80° C. and 160° C., the reaction pressure is between 1 MPa and 5 MPa, the liquid-volume hourly space velocity is from 1 to 10 h?1, and the hydrogen-oil volume ratio is (3-8):1; a prehydrogenation catalyst comprises a carrier and active ingredients, the carrier contains an aluminium oxide composite carrier with a macroporous structure and one or more of ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-35, mordenite, amorphous form aluminum silicon, SAPO-11, MCM-22, a Y molecular sieve and a beta molecular sieve, the surface of the carrier is loaded with one or more of the active ingredients cobalt, molybdenum, nickel and tungsten; based on oxides, the content of the active ingredients is between 0.1% and 15.5%.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: FUZHOU UNIVERSITYInventors: Tinghai Wang, Xiaojun Bao, Yuanyuan Yue, Xueli Wang, Jie Liu, Haibo Zhu, Pei Yuan, Zhengshuai Bai
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Publication number: 20230077083Abstract: Described herein are an imaging system and method. Specifically, the imaging system includes a positioning image acquisition unit configured to acquire positioning images of a scanned object from a plurality of angles, a contour estimation unit configured to estimate a contour of the object in each positioning image in a scanning direction when truncation is present in at least one positioning image, and a display field of view determination unit configured to select a maximum value of an estimated contour as a display field of view of the image. A contour of a scanned object in each positioning image in a scanning direction is estimated when truncation is present in at least one positioning image, thereby determining a suitable display field of view. An appropriate display field of view can be set, so that a reconstructed image can cover the entire contour of the object and have a higher resolution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Ximiao Cao, Bingjie Zhao, Xueli Wang, Jiang Hsieh
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Publication number: 20230045035Abstract: An atrial shunt regulation device, a braid tool and a braid method thereof. The left disk (1) and the right disk (2) of the atrial shunt regulation device are connected via the intermediate portion (3) as a single piece, and the left disk (1), the intermediate portion (3) and the right disk (2) are braided by a single braid wire (10). The ends of the braid wires are secured by one nut in the single-braid method, which reduces the number and size of the nuts and easily forms a cortical layer. The braid tool for braiding an atrial shunt regulation device comprises a cylinder braid body mold (20), the cylindrical braid body mold (20) includes positioning pins (21) that are evenly connected to an outer wall of the braid body mold. The braid method of the atrial shunt regulation device comprises braiding, thermoforming, braiding a binding-off wire, securing ends of wires by a nut, and thermoforming again.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Song CHEN, Xueli WANG, Changdong ZHANG, Ming SUN, Tao ZHU, Liang MAO
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Publication number: 20220383491Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a tissue boundary determination apparatus and method. The tissue boundary determination method includes acquiring multiple slice images of multiple positions of a tissue to be examined, determining, with regard to at least one first selected slice image of the multiple slice images, a tissue boundary on the first selected slice image, and determining, according to the tissue boundary on the first selected slice image, tissue boundaries on a predetermined number of other slice images adjacent to the first selected slice image. Therefore, an accurate tissue (such as malignant tumor) boundary may be acquired efficiently so as to provide a reference basis for analysis on internal and external tissue of a tumor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Yan Sun, Xueli Wang, Mingyang Yang, Bingjie Zhao
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Patent number: 11461940Abstract: The present application provides an imaging method and system, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The imaging method comprises preprocessing projection data to obtain a predicted image of a truncated portion; performing forward projection on the predicted image to obtain predicted projection data of the truncated portion; and performing image reconstruction using the projection data obtained by forward projection and projection data of an untruncated portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Xueli Wang, Ximiao Cao, Bingjie Zhao, Weiwei Xing
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Patent number: 11380026Abstract: The present application provides a method and device for obtaining a predicted image of a truncated portion, an imaging method and system, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method for obtaining a predicted image of a truncated portion comprises preprocessing projection data to obtain, by reconstruction, an initial image of the truncated portion; and calibrating the initial image based on a trained learning network to obtain the predicted image of the truncated portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Xueli Wang, Bingjie Zhao, Shiyu Li, Dan Liu
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Publication number: 20210122986Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic cracking gasoline prehydrogenation method. Thiol etherification and double bond isomerization reactions are carried out on catalytic cracking gasoline through a prehydrogenation reactor. The reaction conditions are as follows: the reaction temperature is between 80° C. and 160° C., the reaction pressure is between 1 MPa and 5 MPa, the liquid-volume hourly space velocity is from 1 to 10 h?1, and the hydrogen-oil volume ratio is (3-8):1; a prehydrogenation catalyst comprises a carrier and active ingredients, the carrier contains an aluminium oxide composite carrier with a macroporous structure and one or more of ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-35, mordenite, amorphous form aluminum silicon, SAPO-11, MCM-22, a Y molecular sieve and a beta molecular sieve, the surface of the carrier is loaded with one or more of the active ingredients cobalt, molybdenum, nickel and tungsten; based on oxides, the content of the active ingredients is between 0.1% and 15.5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: FUZHOU UNIVERSITYInventors: Tinghai WANG, Xiaojun BAO, Yuanyuan YUE, Xueli WANG, Jie LIU, Haibo ZHU, Pei YUAN, Zhengshuai BAI
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Publication number: 20210115343Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic cracking gasoline upgrading method. First, in the presence of a prehydrogenation catalyst, the full-range FCC gasoline undergoes prehydrogenation in a prehydrogenation reactor to remove diolefins, mercaptans and sulfides, and then the prehydrogenation product undergoes selective hydrodesulfurization in the presence of a hydrodesulfurization-isomerization catalyst, and straight-chain olefins are isomerized into single-branched olefins or single-branched alkanes, thus obtaining a low-olefin, ultralow-sulfur and high-octane clean gasoline product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: FUZHOU UNIVERSITYInventors: Tinghai WANG, Yuanyuan YUE, Xiaojun BAO, Xueli WANG, Jie LIU, Pei YUAN, Haibo ZHU, Zhengshuai BAI
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Patent number: 10977485Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing a radiotherapy CT positioning image, comprising: defining a pixel having a CT value greater than or equal to a first threshold in an original CT image as a human body pixel; counting a number of human body pixels of each pixel row in the original CT image in an order from top to bottom; and determining a boundary of the human body according to the counting result.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xueli Wang, Hongyu Li, Weiwei Xing
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Patent number: 10950015Abstract: The present invention provides a medical image processing method and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: reconstructing a two-dimensional cross-sectional image of an imaged tissue based on a volumetric image of the imaged tissue; projecting a CT value of the imaged tissue along a normal direction of the centerline of the imaged tissue in the two-dimensional cross-sectional image; and, positioning the imaged tissue based on the projection result of the CT value of the imaged tissue.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bo Guo, Gang Fang, Xueli Wang