Dynamic slabbing to render views of medical image data
AssigneeSectra AB
InventorsClaes Lundström, Per Anell, Fredrik Häll, Jonas Rehn, Regina Rosander
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Abstract
Systems and methods for generating images of respective patients from multi-dimensional medical image data sets include a processor circuit in communication with a display having a graphic user interface (GUI), the processor circuit configured to define at least one grouping of a subset of slices selected from slices in a medical data stack, then generate and display at least one slabbed view based on the at least one grouping of slices.
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An interactive visualization system for generating images of respective patients from multi-dimensional medical image data sets, comprising:
- a processor circuit in communication with a display having a graphic user interface (GUI), the processor circuit configured to employ Computer Aided Detection (CAD) to electronically analyze and identify suspected abnormalities in slices of the medical image data stack to automatically define at least one grouping of a subset of slices selected from slices in a medical data stack based on data from the CAD identification, then generate and display at least one slabbed view of a part of the data set within a volumetric region defined by the at least one grouping of slices with suspected abnormalities.
A method of generating views of medical data, comprising:
- electronically generating groups of slices from a stack of slices using Computer Aided Detection (CAD) to electronically analyze and identify suspected abnormalities in slices of the medical image data stack and automatically generate the groups of slices based on the CAD identification of abnormalities;
- combining pixel values associated with a common position in each slice of a respective group;
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- generating slabbed views, one for each of the respective grouped slices, based on the combined pixel values.
A processor circuit for generating medical diagnostic views of a tomosynthesis stack of mammography patient image data, wherein the circuit is configured to communicate with a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a client workstation to accept user input to interact with the image data to generate desired views of the image data, and wherein the circuit is configured to employ Computer Aided Detection (CAD) to electronically analyze and identify suspected abnormalities in slices of the tomosynthesis image data stack to define groups of slices and to generate slabbed views of breast tissue with suspected abnormalities and allow a user to browse the slabbed views.
A computer program product for providing physician interactive access to patient medical data for rendering diagnostic medical images, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to employ Computer Aided Detection (CAD) to electronically analyze and identify suspected abnormalities in slices of a stack of patient medical image data to define groups of slices of a medical image data stack;
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- computer readable program code configured to generate a respective slabbed view for each of the groups of slices with suspected abnormalities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.