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US 10,092,191 B2Granted
Joint visualization of 3D reconstructed photograph and internal medical scan
AssigneeSiemens Healthcare GmbH
InventorsDaphne Yu, Klaus Engel
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Abstract
Interior scan and exterior photos are jointly visualized in medical imaging. One or more cameras are mounted to the internal medical scanner, allowing a photograph to be taken while or in temporal proximity to when the internal region of the patient is scanned. An image associating the exterior photographs with the interior region of the patient is presented to assist in diagnosis. Due to the spatial and temporal proximity, the image may be a visualization formed by combining the photograph and interior scan data.
Claims13
A system for joint visualization in medical imaging, the system comprising:
- a medical imaging system configured to scan an internal region of a patient, the medical imaging system having a patient area in which a patient is positioned during the scan;
- a camera connected to the medical imaging system, the camera connected so that the camera is oriented to capture the patient in the patient area in a photograph;
- a processor configured to independently reconstruct a first three-dimensional representation of the patient from scan data of the scan and a second three-dimensional surface of the patient from the photograph and configured to render an image as a function of the first three-dimensional representation and the second three-dimensional surface with ray line termination for the scan data at voxels defined by the three-dimensional surface;
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- a display configured to display the image.
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