Body structure imaging
AssigneeTylerton International Holdings Inc.
InventorShlomo Ben-Haim
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Abstract
A method of medical image processing for images of body structures, comprising: receiving anatomical data to reconstruct an anatomical image of a region of a body of a patient, said region comprises a portion of at least one internal body part which borders or is spaced apart from a target tissue; receiving functional data from a functional imaging modality which images at least said portion of the region of the body of the patient; processing said anatomical image to generate at least one image mask corresponding to the zone outside of the wall of said at least one internal body part; correlating the at least one generated image mask with the functional data for guiding a reconstruction of a functional image depicting said target tissue; and providing the reconstructed functional image.
Claims24
A method of medical image processing for images of nerve tissue of an autonomic nervous system (ANS) of a heart, comprising:
- receiving an anatomical image of heart structures innervated by the ANS;
- receiving functional data from a functional imaging modality which images at least the heart structures innervated by the ANS according to an imaging agent with affinity to the ANS;
- selecting at least one image mask by processing the anatomical image, the at least one image mask is selected to correspond in dimensions to heart chamber walls containing nerve tissues;
- applying the at least one image mask with the functional data for reconstructing a functional image depicting ganglionic plexi (GPs);
- providing the reconstructed functional image;
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- identifying GPs based on at least one predefined rule comprising calculated activity above a predefined threshold;
- wherein:
- the predefined threshold is based on a predefined factor times a calculated standard deviation of activity within the image mask above a calculated average activity within the image mask, and
- a calculated adjacent activity surrounding an active region is lower than half of the activity of the active region.
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