Alan J Brooks

US Patent:

20140282624, Sep 18, 2014

Filed:

Mar 17, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/216963

Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Alan Carl BROOKS - Highland Park IL, US
Stephen John HOELZER - Schaumburg IL, US
Robert C. GEMPERLINE - Algonquin IL, US

Assignee:

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G06F 9/54

US Classification:

719318

Abstract:

The present invention is directed to a method, system, and article of manufacture of a processing pipeline with caching at one or more internal stages for altering processing steps, useful for handling responsive inspection and analysis of high energy security images. A set of particular steps useful for data, image, and X-ray analysis are presented. Several nonlinear processing pipeline architectures comprised of particular useful arrangements of processing steps and features are described: an architecture for conducting radiographic image inspections, an architecture for inspecting/analyzing multiple related imaging modalities (such as X-ray digital radiography (DR) and material discrimination (MD)) in a unified manner, and an architecture for reconstructing computed tomography (CT) X-ray images. In addition, graphical user interface (GUI) facets are described which map to pipeline parameters to control the processing steps and arrangements responsively and intuitively. The pipeline architecture and user interaction facets are applicable.