US 2022/0022833 A1 · APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR RULE BASED VISUALIZATION OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS AND OTHER VOLUMETRIC IMAGES

Abstract

The invention provides, in some aspects, a system for implementing a rule derived basis to display volumetric image sets. In various embodiments of the invention, the selection of the images to be displayed, the generation of the 3-D volumetric image from measured 2-D images including the rendering parameters and styles, the choice of viewing directions and 2-D projection images based on the viewing directions, the layout of the projection images, and the formation of a video can be determined using a rule derived basis. In an embodiment of the present invention, the user is presented with sequential images making up a video displayed based on their preferences without having to first manually adjust parameters. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions when reviewing Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and other volumetric mammography images.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method to display a video comprising:

providing a server computer in communication with a remote computer, where the server computer:
a) receives a patient ID from the remote computer, where the patient ID corresponds with one or more medical diagnostic reports of a patient selected from a plurality of medical diagnostic reports;
b) executes a render server program comprising:
i) a step for applying one or more Study Selection Rules based on the patient ID to select a Study from the plurality of medical diagnostic reports;
ii) a step for constructing from the Study a volumetric image of an anatomical region of the patient;
iii) a step for defining at least three viewing directions;
and
iv) a step for generating at least three projection images at the at least three viewing directions from the volumetric image;
and
c) sends a video comprising the at least three projection images to the remote computer.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/478,797Filed 17 Sep 2021

Priority

15 Mar 2013

Published

27 Jan 2022

Term ends

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Classification29 codes

A61B 6/5223
Involving processing of medical diagnostic data: generating planar views from image data, e.g. extracting a coronal view from a 3D image
A61B 6/025
Arrangements for diagnosis sequentially in different planes; Stereoscopic radiation diagnosis: tomosynthesis
A61B 6/027
Arrangements for diagnosis sequentially in different planes; Stereoscopic radiation diagnosis: characterised by the use of a particular data…
A61B 6/032
Computed tomography [CT]: transmission computed tomography [CT]

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