Systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination
AssigneeCleerly, Inc.
InventorJames K. Min
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Abstract
Various embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination. In particular, in some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are related to analysis of one or more regions of plaque, such as for example coronary plaque, using non-invasively obtained images that can be analyzed using computer vision or machine learning to identify, diagnose, characterize, treat and/or track coronary artery disease.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of generating a graphical training tool configured to facilitate training a user to identify arterial plaque on a medical image, the method comprising:
- accessing, by a computer system, a medical image of a subject, the medical image comprising one or more regions of arterial plaque;
- receiving, by the computer system, one or more user annotations of the medical image from a user, the one or more user annotations comprising identification of the one or more regions of arterial plaque;
- accessing, by the computer system, a prestored annotated version of the medical image, the prestored version of the medical image comprising one or more prestored annotations comprising identification of the one or more regions of arterial plaque;
- graphically overlaying, by the computer system, the one or more user annotations of the medical image on the prestored annotated version of the medical image;
- identifying, by the computer system, a first subset of the one or more user annotations of the medical image, the first subset of the one or more user annotations absent in the prestored annotated version of the medical image;
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- graphically assigning, by the computer system, a first color to the first subset of the one or more user annotations of the medical image, wherein the graphically assigned first color is configured to facilitate training of the user to identify arterial plaque, wherein the computer system comprises a computer processor and an electronic storage medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.