Device and method for three-dimensionally mapping acupuncture points

A system for mapping an acupoint in a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system, comprising:

• one or more microprocessors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes steps to be performed comprising:
• (a) retrieving a standard template having a 3D data of human organ and a standard position of an acupoint;
• (b) generating an instance of the standard template in a coordinate system of a 3D image of a patient, wherein the 3D image of the patient includes 3D data of the patient's organ corresponding to the human organ of the standard template;
• (c) transforming the coordinate system of the instance of the standard template;
• and
• (d) calculating a patient's acupoint position with the standard position of the acupoint of the instance of the standard template;
• wherein the standard position of the acupoint represents a location relative to a center point of the 3D data of the human organ in the transformed coordinate system of the instance of the standard template;
• and wherein the step (c) includes moving the center point of the 3D data of the human organ to a center point of the 3D data of the patient's organ and scaling the coordinate system of the instance of the standard template along x-axis, y-axis and z-axis so that a volume of the 3D data of the human organ is same as a volume of the 3D data of the patient's organ.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes steps for mapping an acupoint in a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system comprising:

• (a) retrieving a standard template having a 3D data of human organ and a standard position of an acupoint;
• (b) generating an instance of the standard template in a coordinate system of a 3D image of a patient, wherein the 3D image of the patient includes 3D data of the patient's organ corresponding to the human organ of the standard template;
• (c) transforming the coordinate system of the instance of the standard template;
• and
• (d) calculating a patient's acupoint position with the standard position of the acupoint of the instance of the standard template;
• wherein the standard position of the acupoint represents a location relative to a center point of the 3D data of the human organ in the transformed coordinate system of the instance of the standard template;
• and wherein the step (c) includes moving the center point of the 3D data of the human organ to a center point of the 3D data of the patient's organ and scaling the coordinate system of the instance of the standard template along x-axis, y-axis and z-axis so that a volume of the 3D data of the human organ is same as a volume of the 3D data of the patient's organ.