System and method for automated landmarking
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsVivek Prabhakar Vaidya, Robert David Darrow, Xiaodong Tao
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Abstract
A method for automated landmarking comprising obtaining one or more localizer images of a patient, comparing the one or more localizer images with a reference image, computing a difference between the one or more localizer images and the reference image, determining a desired position of the patient based on the computed difference, and maneuvering the patient, a support platform, or both the patient and the support platform to the desired position for imaging an anatomical region of interest in the patient.
Claims19
A method for automated landmarking, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more localizer images of a patient;
- comparing the one or more localizer images with a reference image;
- computing a difference between the one or more localizer images and the reference image;
- determining a desired position of the patient based on the computed difference;
- and
- maneuvering the patient, a support platform, or both the patient and the support platform to the desired position for imaging an anatomical region of interest in the patient.
A system for automated landmarking, the system comprising:
- a landmarking platform configured to:
- obtain one or more localizer images of a patient;
- compare the one or more localizer images with a reference image;
- compute a difference between the one or more localizer images and the reference image;
- determine a desired position of the patient based on the computed difference;
- and
- maneuver the patient, a support platform, or both the patient and the support platform to the desired position.
An imaging system, comprising:
- an acquisition subsystem configured to obtain a plurality of image data sets corresponding to a region of interest in an object of interest;
- and
- a processing subsystem in operative association with the acquisition subsystem and comprising a landmarking platform, wherein the landmarking platform is configured to:
- obtain one or more localizer images of the object of interest;
- compare the one or more localizer images with a reference image;
- compute a difference between the one or more localizer images and the reference image;
- determine a desired position of the object of interest based on the computed difference;
- and
- maneuver the object of interest, a support platform, or both the object of interest and the support platform to the desired position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.