Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Reexamination Certificate
2009-12-02
2010-12-21
Mehta, Bhavesh M (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
C382S300000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07856135
ABSTRACT:
An image analysis system provides for importing, normalizing and co-registering a plurality of ocular fundus images, or images obtained by their decomposition, analysis, processing, or synthesis. Differences between the image are determined and of those differences those that are meaningful (e.g., from a diagnostic point of view) are highlighted. Sequences of these differences, which reflect changes in the eye represented in the images, are synthesized so as to present a view of how the differences manifest over time. Structures of importance in the eye are overlapped so that the information may be presented in a meaningful fashion for diagnostic purposes.
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Aibili—Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research
Akhavannik Hadi
Mehta Bhavesh M
SNR Denton US LLP
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