Interactive atlas extracted from volume data
AssigneeSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
InventorsHong Shen, Shuping Qing
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for building an atlas includes providing a volume data for a plurality of bones, segmenting, individually, the plurality of bones from the volume data, storing locations of a plurality of voxels for each of the plurality of bones, wherein each of the plurality of bones is registered with a dedicated list of locations, wherein the locations are locations in a coordinate system of the volume data, selecting one or more of the plurality of bones, forming a selected structure, and rendering the selected structure in the coordinate system of the volume data according to the dedicated list of locations of each of the plurality of bones in the selected structure, wherein a rendering is displayed by a display.
Claims17
A system for building an atlas comprising:
- a memory device storing a volume data for a plurality of bones and a plurality of instructions for building the atlas;
- a processor for receiving the volume data for a plurality of bones and executing the plurality of instructions to perform a method comprising:
- segmenting, individually, the plurality of bones from the volume data;
- storing locations of a plurality of voxels for each of the plurality of bones, wherein each of the plurality of bones is registered with a dedicated list of locations, wherein the locations are locations in a coordinate system of the volume data;
- selecting one or more of the plurality of bones, forming a selected structure;
- and
- rendering the selected structure in the coordinate system of the volume data according to the dedicated list of locations of each of the plurality of bones in the selected structure, wherein a rendering is displayed by a display.
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for building an atlas, the method steps comprising:
- providing a volume data for a plurality of bones;
- segmenting, individually, the plurality of bones from the volume data;
- storing locations of a plurality of voxels for each of the plurality of bones, wherein each of the plurality of bones is registered with a dedicated list of locations, wherein the locations are locations in a coordinate system of the volume data;
- selecting one or more of the plurality of bones, forming a selected structure;
- and
- rendering the selected structure in the coordinate system of the volume data according to the dedicated list of locations of each of the plurality of bones in the selected structure, wherein a rendering is displayed by a display.
A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps for visualization of skeletal structures, the method steps comprising:
- providing a volume data of a skeletal structure;
- rendering a three-dimensional view of the skeletal structure in a first window;
- selecting, individually, at least one bone of the skeletal structure forming a selected structure;
- and
- rendering a three-dimensional view the selected structure in a second window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.