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Coregistering images of a region of interest during several conditions using a landmark subsurface feature

AssigneeThe Invention Science Fund I, LLC

InventorsRoderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Eric C. Leuthardt, Erez Lieberman, Dennis J. Rivet, Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.

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Abstract

Described embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product. A described system includes an image coregistration circuit that coregisters a first depiction of a region of interest of a mammalian body part during a first condition by a reference medical image and a second depiction of the region of interest of the mammalian body part during a second condition by a target medical image. The coregistration is at least partially based on the first spatial relationship and on the second spatial relationship. The described system includes a computer-readable media configured to maintain informational data corresponding to the coregistration of the first depiction of the region of interest and the second depiction of the region of interest.

Claims45

Dependent claims

A computer program product comprising:

(a) a non-transitory computer readable medium including program instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a process including:
(i) coregistering
(x) a first depiction by a reference medical image of a region of interest of a mammalian body part during a first condition, the region of interest having a first spatial relationship to a landmark subsurface feature of the mammalian body part during the first condition, and
(y) a second depiction by a target medical image of the region of interest of the mammalian body part during a second condition, the region of interest having a second spatial relationship to the landmark subsurface feature of the mammalian body part during the second condition, the second spatial relationship being different than the first spatial relationship,
the coregistration of the first depiction and the second depiction at least partially based on the first spatial relationship and on the second spatial relationship;
(ii) storing in another non-transitory computer-readable media operably coupled with processor informational data corresponding to the coregistration of the first depiction of the region of interest and the second depiction of the region of interest.

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A system comprising:

(a) a receiver circuit configured to receive:
(i) a reference medical image that includes a first depiction of a region of interest of a mammalian body part during a first condition;
(ii) a target medical image that includes a second depiction the region of interest of the mammalian body part during a second condition;
(iii) a first data indicative of a first spatial relationship between a landmark subsurface feature of the mammalian body part and the region of interest during the first condition;
and
(iv) a second data indicative of a second spatial relationship between the landmark subsurface feature of the mammalian body part and the region of interest during the second condition, the second spatial relationship being different than the first spatial relationship;
(b) an image coregistration circuit configured to coregister the first depiction of the region of interest and the second depiction of the region of interest, the coregistration at least partially based on the first spatial relationship and on the second spatial relationship;
and
(c) a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to maintain informational data corresponding to the coregistration of the first depiction of the region of interest and the second depiction of the region of interest.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/200,107Filed 16 Sep 2011 · continuation in part
Published: US 2013/0070069 A121 Mar 2013
Granted: 25 Nov 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

H04N 1/00
Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like
A61B 1/000094
Of image signals during a use of endoscope: extracting biological structures
A61B 5/0077
Using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence: devices for viewing the surface of the body, e.g. camera, magnifying lens
A61B 6/5241
Combining images from the same or different ionising radiation imaging techniques, e.g. PET and CT: combining overlapping images of the same…

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