Inventor · Sint-Niklaas, BE

Piet Dewaele

34Patents
15h-index
17Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 11, 1993 → Jun 17, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5461655A Method and apparatus for noise reduction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US7394946B2 Method for automatically mapping of geometric objects in digital medical images Physics 81 Active
US6047257A Identification of medical images through speech recognition Physics 63 Expired
US5832055A Method of correcting a radiation image for defects in the recording member Physics 57 Expired
US5757021A Identification system and method for use in the field of digital radiography Physics 57 Expired
US6792071B2 Method of performing geometric measurements on digital radiological images Physics 50 Expired
US6273606A Method and assembly for recording a radiation image of an elongate body Human Necessities 45 Expired
US5986279A Method of recording and reading a radiation image of an elongate body Physics 45 Expired
US6269177A Method for reconstructing radiation image of a body from partial radiation images Physics 41 Expired
US6377654B1 Method for measuring the wall thickness of a tubular object Physics 26 Expired
US5651042A Method of recognizing one or more irradiation Physics 25 Expired
US6271536A Radiographic image identification method Human Necessities 20 Expired
US7616818B2 Method of determining the orientation of an image Physics 18 Expired
US6353674B1 Method of segmenting a radiation image into direct exposure area and diagnostically relevant area Physics 17 Expired
US7916917B2 Method of segmenting anatomic entities in digital medical images Physics 15 Active
US7065235B2 Radiographic scoring method Physics 13 Expired
US8014625B2 Method of performing measurements on digital images Physics 12 Active
US8503742B2 Method for mass candidate detection and segmentation in digital mammograms Physics 9 Active
US5646417A Customized and configurated radiation image read out system Physics 8 Expired
US6263097A Method of determining (a) symmetry line(s) in a radiation image Physics 7 Expired
US8121370B2 Method of performing measurements on digital images Physics 5 Active
US9129390B2 Method of segmenting anatomic entities in 3D digital medical images Physics 4 Active
US7796839B2 Method of detecting the orientation of an object in an image Physics 4 Active
US8165359B2 Method of constructing gray value or geometric models of anatomic entity in medical image Physics 4 Active
US8224046B2 Visual enhancement of interval changes using rigid and non-rigid transformations Physics 3 Active

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