Bracco Imaging S.p.a.

Marco Mattiuzzi

Valerio Abate

Ilaria Gori

Toni Werner Vomweg

Cesar Augusto Dartora

Hugo Enrique Hernàndez Figueroa

Kleber Zuza Nobrega

Michel Zamboni Rached

Erasmo Recami

Method for producing a stationary wave field of arbitrary shape comprising the steps of defining at least one volume being limited in the direction of the axis of propagation of a beam, of the type 0&#x2266;z&#x2266;L; defining an intensity pattern within the said region 0&#x2266;z&#x2266;L by a function F(z), describing the said localized and stationary intensity pattern, which is approximated by means of a Fourier expansion or by a similar expansion in terms of (trigonometric) orthogonal functions; providing a generic superposition of Bessel or other beams highly transversally confined; calculating the maximum number of superimposed Bessel beams the amplitudes, the phase velocities and the relative phases of each Bessel beam of the superposition, and the transverse and longitudinal wavenumbers of each Bessel beam of the superposition.

Method and apparatus for producing stationary intense wave fields of arbitrary shape

Method for automatic processing and evaluation of images, particularly diagnostic images, comprising an image processing tool in the form of a software program which is executable by the computer hardware and which image processing tool processes image data of a digital input image generating a modified digital output image whose image data are outputted in a graphical and/or alphanumerical format highlighting certain predetermined features or qualities of the corresponding regions of an imaged body or object, characterized in that the image processing tool comprises a first image detecting module which is an image processing module based on image processing non expert algorithms and which furnishes at its output a modified image file which modified image data are further processed by a classification or evaluation module which is a second image processing module comprising an image processing tool consisting in an expert image processing algorithm such as a classification or prediction algorithm the output of which is a further modified image file in which the pixels or voxels are highlighted corresponding to imaged object having a predetermined feature or quality.

Method and system for automatic processing and evaluation of images, particularly diagnostic images

An image processing system particularly for use with diagnostic images includes at least one processing unit, which receives digital images acquired by one or more imaging apparatus and provides output images, processed by an image processing program loaded in the memory of the processing unit and executed thereby, wherein the system includes a central service unit having an interface to be accessed by remote users, which connect to the central unit by remote communication.

Image processing system, particularly for use with diagnostic images

A method for coding pixels or voxels of a digital or digitalized two dimensional or three dimensional image includes the steps of: providing a digital image in which each pixel or voxel is defined by a variable in a grey scale image, or by HSV or RGB values in a color image; generating a vector univocally associated to the target pixel or voxel and having components generated as a function of the values of the pixels or voxels in a window that includes the target pixel or voxel and neighboring pixels or voxels. The function of the values of the target pixel or voxel and of the pixels or voxels in the window corresponds to the characteristic parameters of the numerical matrix representing the pixels or voxels of the window or of a transformation of the numerical matrix.

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Marco Mattiuzzi