System and method for image registration
AssigneeBoston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
InventorsJordan Barnhorst, Keith Carlton, Scott Kokones, Troy Sparks, Aaron Omar Shinn, Zhen Zeng
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Abstract
A system and method for providing processable data associated with anatomical images may provide a user interface including a pivot and stem tool via which to align multiple images, a flashlight bar for viewing portions of an overlaid image, and/or user-movable markers for establishing a location of one or more anatomical landmarks with regions of one or more images.
Claims19
A system for providing image alignment data, the system comprising:
- a computer processor configured to:
- display a first image, a first position of the image relative to an object being recorded;
- display an image positioning control including:
- a first edge positioned at a first location of the image, a second edge, and a shaft extending between the first and second edges, the second edge being user-shiftable;
- and
- responsive to user input to shift the second edge from a second location to a third location:
- display the image in a second position relative to the object, the second position being offset from the first position;
- and
- update the recorded position of the image to reflect the second relative position in a memory where the recorded position is accessible for generating, based on the recorded position, a model of an anatomical region.
A computer-implemented method for providing a user interface for at least one of showing and setting relative positions of objects, the method comprising:
- displaying, by a computer processor, a flashlight object in a display area;
- displaying, by the processor, a first portion of a first object in a first region of the display area that extends in a predefined manner from the flashlight object;
- and
- displaying, by the processor, a first portion of a second object in one or more second regions of the display area that do not extend in the predefined manner from the flashlight object;
- wherein the flashlight object is user-shiftable to shift the first region, thereby responsively:
- bringing into view a second portion of the first object;
- removing from view at least a part of the first portion of the first object;
- bringing into view a second portion of the second object;
- and
- removing from view at least a part of the first portion of the second object.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a processor, the instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method for associating a region with a predefined landmark, the method comprising:
- displaying a first two-dimensional plane of a three-dimensional object;
- displaying a second two-dimensional plane of the three-dimensional object;
- displaying a first user-selectable and shiftable marker associated by the processor with a landmark;
- and
- responsive to a user-shift of the first marker to a region of the first two-dimensional plane:
- displaying a second marker associated with the landmark in a region of the second two-dimensional plane that corresponds to the region of the first two-dimensional plane;
- and
- recording an association of the landmark with each of the regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.