Ultrasound landmark registration in an augmented reality environment

A system comprising one or more processors, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

• generating a contour object for a region of interest represented by medical data, the medical data corresponding to internal anatomy of a patient;
• determining respective display coordinates by performing a transformation on the medical data of the contour object, the display coordinates corresponding to a unified three-dimensional (3D) space of an Augmented Reality (AR) environment;
• displaying respective edges of the contour object according to trace points, the trace points portrayed in the AR environment as a visual outline in alignment with an ultrasound imagery visualization of the region of interest in the patient's physical internal anatomy;
• and
• registering one or more portions of the trace points as internal landmarks for the region of interest in the patient's physical internal anatomy.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied therein to be executed by one or more processors, the program code including instructions for:

• generating a contour object for a region of interest represented by medical data, the medical data corresponding to internal anatomy of a patient;
• determining respective display coordinates by performing a transformation on the medical data of the contour object, the display coordinates corresponding to a unified three-dimensional (3D) space of an Augmented Reality (AR) environment;
• displaying respective edges of the contour object according to trace points, the trace points portrayed in the AR environment as a visual outline in alignment with an ultrasound imagery visualization of the region of interest in the patient's physical internal anatomy;
• and
• registering one or more portions of the trace points as internal landmarks for the region of interest in the patient's physical internal anatomy.