A method and apparatus for analysing one or more MR images showing a pelvic region to identify features indicating areas that contain endometrial tissue is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring one or more quantitative non-contrast MR medical image scans of the pelvic region; determining one or more MR metrics to determine one or more multiparametric MR map for the pelvic region; and analysing the multiparametric MR map to determine a biomarker indicating regions of abnormal iron concentration.
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METHOD AND SYSTEM OF HISTOLOGICAL CHARACTERISATION OF BOWEL DISEASE
A method and system of identification and characterisation of histological features of bowel disease are disclosed. The method and system quantify inflammatory indicators and changes in tissue architecture. Spatial identification and measurement of attributes in IBD tissue biopsies are used for insight into disease activity.
Disclosed is a system and a method to detect, characterize, and estimate a risk of pancreatic cancer from multi-parametric MRI data. Multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) data of a subject is acquired. A T1 image of a subject is generated. A standardised, scanner-referenced T1 image, a.k.a. srT1 image, is generated by standardising the T1 image. A plurality of image srT1 measurements within the pancreas are made from the srT1 image. The plurality of srT1 measurements are used to calculate a 'pancreatic cancer risk' score.
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A method and system for standardising a physical MRI measurement is disclosed whereby the physical measurement is independent of measurement conditions and systems. Standardisation enables accurate comparison of medical images across different systems: different vendor machines and different field strengths. An aspect of standardization is a virtual machine, VM, which is an ideal model for several various physical MRI machines.
A method of analysing MRI images is described. The method comprising acquiring at least three medical MR images of a subject; analysing the at least three medical MR images to determine a water T1 map; applying a field strength correction and an iron correction to the determined water T1 map to generate a corrected water T1 map; generating one or more simulated MRI images based on the water T1 map; fitting the one or more simulated MR images to determine a standard cT1 image for the subject.
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METHOD AND SYSTEM OF HISTOLOGICAL CHARACTERISATION OF A LIVER
A method and system of histological characterisation of a liver is disclosed. The method is for portal tract detection and characterisation. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and system to determine metrics of portal tracts, anatomical micro-components, and associated regions in liver histology slides, of multiple different stains. (Figure 5 accompanies the Abstract)
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF BREAST TISSUE USING MULTIPARAMETRIC MRI
A method and apparatus for analysing MRI data of breast tissue is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring a plurality of quantitative non-contrast MRI scan images of at least part of the breast area using different MR pulse sequences for each MRI scan image; determining a plurality of MRI metrics from the acquired quantitative MRI scans; using the determined metrics to generate a plurality of MRI metric maps; calculating at least one of: a breast composite map and a heterogeneity map, from the metric maps to show tissue characteristics of fat and non-fat tissue in the MRI image; determining breast tissue heterogeneity characteristics from at least one of the breast composite map and the heterogeneity map; and identifying clusters of data from at least one of the breast composite map, breast hetereogeneity map and the breast tissue hetereogeneity characteristics.
A method and system provide means to assess the likelihood, risk, or possible occurrence of a pathology that impacts multiple organs and/or systems, such as endocrine, exocrine, hypertension, blood and so forth that incorporates organ specific information and its relative role in and on the systemic risk. The method includes collecting medical metrics from the person, the medical metrics comprising quantitative parameters of phenotype of the person, and quantitative measures of a plurality of organs of the person from at least one MRI scan performed to obtain MRI data of the organs, using the metrics to assess a state of each of the organs, and selecting a plurality of the states and at least one of the quantitative parameters to estimate the risk of the multi-organ pathology in the person.
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METHOD AND SYSTEM OF MRI IMAGING TO ESTIMATE LIVER WATER R1 AND R2* VARIABILITY
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORTICOMEDULLARY DIFFERENTIATION IN THE KIDNEY
In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), use of echo-planar imaging with different contrasts is disclosed to improve corticomedullary differentiation when defining regions-of-interest in kidney apparent diffusion coefficient maps. In detecting the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) difference between the cortex and medulla, morphological changes to the kidney microstructure may be captured at an earlier disease stage than conventional blood and urine tests.
A computer implemented method of generating quantitative parameters for pancreatobiliary ducts and lesions in a visceral organ from volumetric medical imaging scan data wherein the scan shows all, or part of a visceral organ is described. The method comprising: locating the position of at least one lesion in the visceral organ on the medical imaging scan data; segmenting the at least one detected lesion and determining one or more quantitative structural parameters for the at least one segmented lesion; performing segmentation of a volume of the medical imaging scan data to identify tubular ducts in the visceral organ within the volume of the medical imaging scan; for at least one segmented tubular ducts within the volume of the medical imaging scan data, computing at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for at least one location along the length of the tubular duct; and generating at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for the at least one segmented tubular duct. An apparatus for performing the method is also described.
A system and method is disclosed that relates to magnetic resonance (MR) systems in the field of medical imaging, and particularly the evaluation of MR parameters in phantoms in such systems. The system and method are suitable for measuring the temperature in phantoms with MR, calibrating MR parameters as a function of temperature, and correcting the MR parameters for temperature variations. The system and method correct the effect of temperature on one or more MR parameters and render a process of scanning the phantom more commercially deployable.
A method and apparatus for analysing one or more MR images showing a pelvic region to identify features indicating areas that contain endometrial tissue is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring one or more quantitative non-contrast MR medical image scans of the pelvic region; determining one or more MR metrics to determine one or more multiparametric MR map for the pelvic region; and analysing the multiparametric MR map to determine a biomarker indicating regions of abnormal iron concentration.
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A method of analysing MRI images is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring a first medical MR image, and a second medical MR image, of a subject at the same nominal magnetic field strength; analysing the first and second MR images to determine a wT1 map from the first and second images; applying a field strength correction based on modification of the nominal field strength used for the first and second MR image acquisitions, and an iron correction to correct for differences in the iron concentration from a normal level using a T2*map, to the wT1 map from the first and second images to generate a corrected wT1 map; using the corrected wT1 map to determine simulated signals for a subject with normal iron levels, and fitting the simulated signals to a standard cT1 to determine a standard cT1 image for the subject.
A method of analysing MRI images is described. The method comprising acquiring at least three medical MR images of a subject; analysing the at least three medical MR images to determine a water T1 map; applying a field strength correction and an iron correction to the determined water T1 map to generate a corrected water T1 map; generating one or more simulated MRI images based on the water T1 map; fitting the one or more simulated MR images to determine a standard cT1 image for the subject.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF BREAST TISSUE USING MULTIPARAMETRIC MRI
A method and apparatus for analysing MRI data of breast tissue is desxribed. The method comprising the steps of:acquiring a plurality of quantitative non-contrast MRI scan images of at least part of the breast area using different MR pulse sequences for each MRI scan image; determining a plurality of MRI metrics from the acquired quantitative MRI scans; using the determined metrics to generate a plurality of MRI metric maps; calculating at least one of: a breast composite map and a heterogeneity map, from the metric maps to show tissue characteristics of fat and non-fat tissue in the MRI image; determining breast tissue heterogeneity characteristics from at least one of the breast composite map and the heterogeneity map; and identifying clusters of data from at least one of the breast composite map, breast hetereogeneity map and the breast tissue hetereogeneity characteristics.
A method of analysing MRI images is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring a first medical MR image, and a second medical MR image, of a subject at the same nominal magnetic field strength; analysing the first and second MR images to determine a wT1 map from the first and second images; applying a field strength correction based on modification of the nominal field strength used for the first and second MR image acquisitions, and an iron correction to correct for differences in the iron concentration from a normal level using a T2*map, to the wT1 map from the first and second images to generate a corrected wT1 map; using the corrected wT1 map to determine simulated signals for a subject with normal iron levels, and fitting the simulated signals to a standard cT1 to determine a standard cT1 image for the subject. Alternative methods to generate the corrected wT1 map are also described.
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A method of analysing MRI images is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring a first medical MR image, and a second medical MR image, of a subject at the same nominal magnetic field strength; analysing the first and second MR images to determine a wT1 map from the first and second images; applying a field strength correction based on modification of the nominal field strength used for the first and second MR image acquisitions, and an iron correction to correct for differences in the iron concentration from a normal level using a T2*map, to the wT1 map from the first and second images to generate a corrected wT1 map; using the corrected wT1 map to determine simulated signals for a subject with normal iron levels, and fitting the simulated signals to a standard cT1 to determine a standard cT1 image for the subject. Alternative methods to generate the corrected wT1 map are also described.
A method of analysing the magnitude of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data is described. The method comprising: using the magnitude only of the multi-echo MRI data of images from the subject, where images are acquired at arbitrarily timed echoes including at least one echo time where water and fat are not substantially in-phase; fitting the magnitude of said multi-echo MRI data to a single signal model to produce a plurality of potential solutions for the relative signal contributions for each of the at least two species from the model, by using a plurality of different starting conditions to generate a particular cost function value for each of the plurality of starting conditions, where said cost function values are independent of a field map term for the MRI data; analysing said cost function values to calculate relative signal separation contribution for each species at each voxel of the images.
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A method of quantifying changes in a visceral organ comprises acquiring first (310) and second (410) medical scans of a visceral organ at first and second timepoints. At least part of the visceral organ in the first medical scan is parcellated into a first set of one or more subregions (420), based on image content, each subregion comprising a plurality of voxels. The first medical scan (310) is aligned to the second medical scan (410), before or after parcellating the first medical scan (310). Then the second medical scan is parcellated into a second set of one or more subregions. A metric is evaluated for a subregion in the first medical scan (310), and for the corresponding subregion in the second medical scan (410). A difference in the metric values provides a measure of a change that has occurred in the subregion, between the first and second timepoints.
A method of analysing the magnitude of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data to determine the relative signal contributions of at least two species to each voxel of the images, the method comprising the steps of: using the magnitude only of the multi-echo MRI data of images from the subject, where the images are acquired at arbitrarily timed echoes including at least one echo time where water and fat are not substantially in-phase with each other; fitting the magnitude of said multi-echo MRI data to a single signal model to produce a plurality of potential solutions for the relative signal contributions for each of the at least two species from the model, by using a plurality of different starting conditions to generate a particular cost function value for each of the plurality of starting conditions, where said cost function values are independent of a field map term for the MRI data; and analysing said cost function values to calculate the relative signal separation contribution for each species at each voxel of the images.
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Method and apparatus for providing a quantitative volumetric map of an organ or an assessment of organ health
A method of providing a quantitative volumetric assessment of organ health or a quantitative map of an organ. The method comprises obtaining a volumetric map of organ health comprising information defining a state of tissue health across at least part of an organ, receiving an input defining at least one organ section, determining an assessment organ volume based at least partly on the at least one defined organ section, calculating an organ-viability measure for the assessment organ volume based at least partly on information within the volumetric map defining the state of tissue health across the organ volume, and outputting an indication of the organ-viability measure.
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Method and apparatus for generating quantitative data for biliary tree structures
A method (200) and apparatus (1100) for generating quantitative data for biliary tree structures from volumetric medical imaging scan data. The method comprises performing segmentation (230; 300) of a volume of the medical imaging scan data to identify tubular biliary structures within the volume of the medical imaging scan data; for at least one segmented tubular biliary structure within the volume of the medical imaging scan data, computing (240; 800) at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for at least one location along the length of the tubular biliary structure; and outputting (250) quantitative biliary tree data comprising the at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for the at least one segmented tubular biliary structure.
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A method of quantifying changes in a visceral organ comprises acquiring first (310) and second (410) medical scans of a visceral organ at first and second timepoints. At least part of the visceral organ in the first medical scan is parcellated into a first set of one or more subregions (420), based on image content, each subregion comprising a plurality of voxels. The first medical scan (310) is aligned to the second medical scan (410), before or after parcellating the first medical scan (310). Then the second medical scan is parcellated into a second set of one or more subregions. A metric is evaluated for a subregion in the first medical scan (310), and for the corresponding subregion in the second medical scan (410). A difference in the metric values provides a measure of a change that has occurred in the subregion, between the first and second timepoints.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A QUANTITATIVE VOLUMETRIC MAP OF AN ORGAN OR AN ASSESSMENT OF ORGAN HEALTH
A method of providing a quantitative volumetric assessment of organ health or a quantitative map of an organ. The method comprises obtaining a volumetric map of organ health comprising information defining a state of tissue health across at least part of an organ, receiving an input defining at least one organ section, determining an assessment organ volume based at least partly on the at least one defined organ section, calculating an organ-viability measure for the assessment organ volume based at least partly on information within the volumetric map defining the state of tissue health across the organ volume, and outputting an indication of the organ-viability measure.
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A method (200) and apparatus (1100) for generating quantitative data for biliary tree structures from volumetric medical imaging scan data. The method comprises performing segmentation (230; 300) of a volume of the medical imaging scan data to identify tubular biliary structures within the volume of the medical imaging scan data; for at least one segmented tubular biliary structure within the volume of the medical imaging scan data, computing (240; 800) at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for at least one location along the length of the tubular biliary structure; and outputting (250) quantitative biliary tree data comprising the at least one set of quantitative structural parameters for the at least one segmented tubular biliary structure.
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