An electronic device includes a processor configured to generate a position movement prediction field indicating prediction of a potential positional change of a branch path by a patient's biological activity for one or more branch paths based on a blood vessel image of a reference frame, correct guidewire information extracted from a blood vessel image of a target frame with respect to a catheter position of the reference frame, and select a branch path to dispose the guidewire information, among one or more branch paths of a blood vessel region based on the position movement prediction field and the corrected guidewire information; and a display configured to visualize the guidewire information on the selected branch path.

The present disclosure relates to an imaging system and method. Specifically, an imaging system comprises: a positioning image acquisition unit, configured to acquire a positioning image of a scanning object; a monitoring slice image acquisition unit, configured to determine a key point corresponding to the position of a target region of interest in the positioning image by using a neural network, and acquire a monitoring slice image of the scanning object at the position of the key point; and a target region-of-interest segmentation unit, configured to segment the monitoring slice image to obtain the target region of interest. The present disclosure can accurately acquire the position of the monitoring slice, and can accurately obtain the target region of interest through segmentation by a cascaded coarse segmentation and fine segmentation.

A method of quantifying a size of a tissue of interest in a animal through a device including a storage, an image processor, and a display by using an X-ray image of the animal is proposed. The proposed method may include storing the X-ray image in the storage, displaying the X-ray image on the display, performing, by the image processor, processes of (i) calculating a reference value for a length of a reference tissue of the animal displayed on the X-ray image, (ii) calculating a value of a length in at least one specific direction of the tissue of interest of the animal displayed on the X-ray image, and (iii) quantifying the size of the tissue of interest as a ratio of the value of the length to the reference value, and displaying the quantified size of the tissue of interest on the display.

In accordance with embodiments of this disclosure, a computational simulation platform for assessing impact of coronary artery bypass grafting comprises a computer-implemented method that includes: generating patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions of path lines for a patient's heart, ascending aorta, aortic arch, descending thoracic aorta, great vessels, coronary arteries and their major branches based on noninvasive imaging; performing virtual CABG by modifying the patient-specific 3D reconstructions to computationally add path lines for one or more bypass grafts; performing post-virtual CABG computational fluid dynamic (CFD) studies under computational resting and stress conditions; and assessing hemodynamic impact of virtual CABG on the resting and hyperemic flow of diseased native coronary arteries and virtual bypass grafts.

A plurality of image projections are acquired at faster than cardiac rate. A spatiotemporal reconstruction of cardiac frequency angiographic phenomena in three spatial dimensions is generated from two dimensional image projections using physiological coherence at cardiac frequency. Complex valued methods may be used to operate on the plurality of image projections to reconstruct a higher dimensional spatiotemporal object. From a plurality of two spatial dimensional angiographic projections, a 3D spatial reconstruction of moving pulse waves and other cardiac frequency angiographic phenomena is obtained. Reconstruction techniques for angiographic data obtained from biplane angiography devices are also provided herein.

A time sequenced series of optical images of a patient is obtained at a rate faster than cardiac frequency, wherein the time sequenced series of images capture one or more physical properties of intrinsic contrast. A cross-correland signal from the patient is obtained. A cross-correlated wavelet transform analysis is applied to the time sequenced series of optical images to yield a spatiotemporal representation of cardiac frequency phenomena. The cross-correlated wavelet transform analysis comprises performing a wavelet transform on the time-sequenced series of optical images to obtain a wavelet transformed signal, cross-correlating the wavelet transformed signal with the cross-correland signal to obtain a cross-correlated signal, filtering the cross-correlated signal at cardiac frequency to obtain a filtered signal, and performing an inverse wavelet transform on the filtered signal to obtain a spatiotemporal representation of the time sequenced series of optical images. Images of the cardiac frequency phenomena are generated.

Provided is a method of forming a customized alveolar bone tissue. The method includes obtaining first data having image information corresponding to an original alveolar bone of an alveolar bone defect, obtaining second data having image information on a defective portion of the alveolar bone defect, calculating third data having image information on a barrier membrane covering the alveolar bone defect by using the first data and the second data, and forming a barrier membrane artificial tissue corresponding to the barrier membrane by using the third data.

A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains image data rendering a blood vessel of a patient. The processing circuitry performs a fluid analysis on the obtained image data and calculates an index value related to a blood flow in the blood vessel with respect to each of a plurality of positions in the blood vessel. With respect to the index values to be calculated, the processing circuitry selects a position in which a first value is to be obtained from among the plurality of positions or selects a value serving as the first value from among the index values exhibited in positions. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the first value in a predetermined display region thereof used for displaying the first value.

A method for detecting tumor tissue boundaries or a tumor stromal cell distribution range, more specifically, a diagnostic or non-diagnostic method for determining the boundaries of a tumor tissue; the boundaries of the tumor tissue are determined by means of determining the boundaries of the tumor stromal cells in the tumor tissue. The present method can more accurately determine the boundaries of tumor tissue, which serves to more accurately instruct the treatment of tumors, especially with respect to surgical treatment.

An X-ray imaging method includes the following steps: (a) performing a first object imaging and obtaining a first object intensity signal by detecting an X-ray passing through a first object; (b) performing baseline imaging process, obtaining a baseline intensity signal by detecting the X-ray when the first object is not in a FOV; and; (c) obtaining the first thickness of the first object by performing operations on the first object intensity signal, the baseline intensity signal, and the first attenuation coefficient of the first object.