Method, device, and computer programme for evaluating images of a cavity
AssigneeTomtec Imaging Systems GmbH
InventorGeorg Schummers
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device, a method and a computer program for evaluating images of the heart that have been captured by means of a medical imaging method. According to said method, at least two data records containing functional values, which describe the ventricular wall activity, are produced in a random format, are converted into a uniform format and the data records in the uniform format are compared with one another or calculated.
Claims17
Method of evaluating images of a cavity in a human or an animal body, which have been acquired with one or more different medical imaging methods,
- wherein data sets with functional values, computed from said images, are used, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing at least two data sets with functional values in different data formats, wherein the data formats are chosen from the group consisting of a data table, a projection on to a 2D plane, or a grid network structure;
- providing a uniform data format;
- converting a data set with functional values not made available in the uniform data format into the uniform data format;
- Mathematically computing data sets present in the uniform data format with one another to generate at least one result data set;
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- representing the result data set.
Device for evaluating images of a cavity in a human or an animal body, which have been acquired with one or more medical imaging methods, wherein the device comprises:
- a data store, in which data sets with functional values are stored, which have been computed from the images of the cavity, wherein at least two data sets with functional values have been provided in respectively different data formats, wherein the data formats are chosen from the group consisting of a data table, a projection on to a 2D plane, or a grid network structure in the data store;
- a data store, in which a uniform data format is stored;
- a computing unit, which is adapted to convert data sets with functional values not provided in a uniform data format into the uniform format, and to compute the data sets present in the uniform format with one another in order to produce at least one result data set;
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- a screen suitable for displaying the result data set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.