Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Patent
1995-09-29
1998-08-11
Rogers, Scott A.
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
382254, 12866007, 12866005, 12866702, G06K 900, G06K 940
Patent
active
057938830
ABSTRACT:
Ultrasound gray-scale image data and corresponding processed gray-scale image data are color-enhanced to generate an enhanced multi-color image. At one step, a color map look-up table is defined from the processed gray-scale image data to define a color palette of K colors, (e.g., K=4-16). Histogram analysis, nonlinear mapping or segmentation processing is used to map the gray-scale levels to the color palette. The processed gray-scale image data then is transposed into a transposed color image data set. Data interpolation then is performed in which each pixel of the original gray-scale image data is interpolated with a corresponding pixel among the transposed color image data set. Interpolation weighting is adjustable by the user to determine how much detail from the original gray scale image is preserved.
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Kim Jin H.
Liu Dong-Chyuan
Rogers Scott A.
Siemens Medical Systems Inc.
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