Patent Document ID: 20070014459
Application ID: 11433521
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for assembling technologies to achieve virtual resolution enhancement of a diagnostic image, comprising: a) receiving a low resolution entity that is one of a set of diagnostic images that can be processed by a function that performs discretization to generate a low resolution model and a low resolution model generated by a discretization function that is representative of things visualized in a diagnostic image; b) receiving a set consisting of at least one higher resolution entity such that: (i) a higher resolution entity is one of a set of higher resolution images that can be processed by a function that performs discretization to generate a higher resolution model and a higher resolution model generated by a discretization function; (ii) at least one higher resolution entity is to be linked to the low resolution entity; (iii) any remaining higher resolution entities are to be linked to at least one of the low resolution entity and a higher resolution entity; c) an image discretization function capable of at least one of: (i) processing an image to create a model consisting of objects recognizable by a mathematical modeling function; (ii) processing multiple images to create a model consisting of objects recognizable by a mathematical modeling function; (iii) creating a model de novo consisting of objects recognizable by a mathematical modeling function; d) a multilevel mathematical modeling function capable of at least: (i) performing an analysis linking a low resolution model and at least one higher resolution models; (ii) performing an analysis based on at least one of the following: previously obtained measures, a look-up table, and the theoretical model for the behavior of a tissue(s) or entity(s); (iii) generating output variables for each model involved in the analysis; e) a user interface that enables: (i) accessing the output variables generated by the multilevel modeling function; (ii) viewing at least one output variable at the length scale of the low resolution entity; (iii) viewing at least one output variable at the length scale of a higher resolution entity.