Various methods and systems are provided for comparison of medical scan images during functional imaging evaluation. In one example, structural similarity between a first scan image and a second scan image of a lesion may be determined by implementing a deep learning model including plurality of neural networks trained with base structures and different perturbations of base structures, and ranking structural similarity based on a selected neural network model trained with perturbations of base structures corresponding to the structural difference between the first and second scan images.

(DSA) enables the vascular structure around a heart to be displayed using the injection of a contrast medium whilst the heart is being observed by an X-ray apparatus. The quality of a DSA sequence can be affected by the breathing of the patient, when under examination. This is because the images forming a DSA sequence are gathered using an X-ray modality, and therefore the independent movement of transparent tissues inside a patient causes motion artefacts to appear in DSA images. According to an aspect of the present invention, a method, device, X-ray system, computer program element, and a computer readable medium are provided which can correct artefacts appearing in DSA images which originate from to the motion of the heart and the motion caused by breathing in a patient.

This invention publicly announces a quantificational testing method of semen liquefaction ability. By following the steps of sample preparation, image collection, image quantificational analysis and curve analysis to analyze the quantificational testing of semen liquefaction ability; indirectly indicate the semen liquefaction ability by observing the color depth change in the sperm sampled cover black area; to analyze the quantification of semen liquefaction by observing the level of change in grey level value versus time; thus, to efficiently, subjectively and standardly test the semen liquefaction ability and avoid human errors.

A system and method for performing ultrasound scans is provided. One embodiment of the ultrasonagraphic system acquires sonogram information from a series of ultrasonic scans of a human subject. The series of ultrasound scans are taken over a portion of interest on the human subject which has their underlying bone structure or other ultrasound discernable organ that is under examination. The data from the series of scans are synthesized into a single data file that corresponds to a three-dimensional (3D) image and/or 3D model of the underlying bone structure or organ of the examined human subject.

Embodiments relate to an evaluation device for a skin texture based on a skin blob, which includes a skin blob determining unit configured to determine a skin blob in a skin image, a skin blob information measuring unit configured to measure at least one of a gross area, an average area, a number, a gross border length, an average border length, a direction and an angle of the skin blob in the skin image, and a skin texture evaluating unit configured to evaluate a skin texture of the skin image based on the measurement result; and an evaluation method thereof.

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for estimating a pulse transmit time (PTT) to calculate a blood pressure are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving a series of video images over a period of time that includes a first location of an individual and a second location of the individual, calculating a first set of luminance values of the first location and a second set of luminance values of the second location, estimating the PTT based on an average time difference from consecutive peaks of the first set of luminance values and the second set of luminance values and transmitting the PTT to a blood pressure calculation device to calculate the blood pressure based on the PTT that is estimated.

To acquire information relating to a vessel wall thickness by: acquiring interference signal sets of a plurality of frames including interference signal sets corresponding to a plurality of frames forming an image of the same cross section of an fundus; generating 3-D tomographic image data on the fundus from the interference signal sets of the plurality of frames; generating 3-D motion contrast data in the fundus from the interference signal sets corresponding to the plurality of frames that form the same cross section; extracting a vessel from the fundus based on the 3-D tomographic image data or the 3-D motion contrast data; detecting a coordinate of an outer surface of a vessel wall of the vessel based on the 3-D tomographic image data; and detecting a coordinate of an inner surface of the vessel wall of the vessel based on the 3-D motion contrast data.

An image display control apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit that obtains an image of a backbone region that includes at least a portion of the backbone of a subject; an emphasized display target region specifying unit that specifies an emphasized display target region within the backbone region based on the image; a bone metastasis region specifying unit that specifies an osteolytic metastasis region included in the backbone region; and a display control unit that causes images to be displayed by a display unit. The display control unit displays an osteolytic metastasis region that belongs within the emphasized display target region with a greater degree of emphasis than an osteolytic metastasis region outside the emphasized display target region.

Methods and systems for assessing lung function using volumetric images obtained at inspiration and expiration. The method may include processing the first and second set of images to identify known anatomical structures of the lungs, registering the first set of images to the second set of images to match voxels of the first set of images to voxels of the second set of images as matched pairs of inspiratory and expiratory voxels, calculating a continuous probability of a lung characteristic at a location of the matched pairs of voxels, and displaying the result on a display. The method may also include classifying lung tissue at each location as normal, having air trapping without emphysema, or being emphysematous.

Devices, systems, and methods for visually depicting a vessel and evaluating a physiological condition of the vessel are disclosed. One embodiment includes obtaining, at a first time, a first image of the vessel, the image being in a first medical modality, and obtaining, at a second time subsequent to the first time, a second image of the vessel, the image being in the first medical modality. The method also includes spatially co-registering the first and second images and outputting a visual representation of the co-registered first and second images on a display. Further, the method includes determining a physiological difference between the vessel at the first time and the vessel at the second time based on the co-registered first and second images, and evaluating the physiological condition of the vessel of the patient based on the determined physiological difference.