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US 9,165,360 B1Granted
Methods, systems, and devices for automated analysis of medical scans
AssigneeZepmed, LLC
InventorsDouglas Bates, Nathan S. White
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Abstract
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for automated reorientation and/or analysis of medical scans and/or images. The methods, systems, and devices for automated analysis of medical scans can be configured to mark, score, grade, and/other otherwise classify medical scans that are more time-sensitive, severe, and/or the like to allow a medical professional reviewing and/or analyzing medical scans to view and/or analyze such scans more efficiently by using a common image orientation and/or taking into account knowledge of the risk of severity, time-sensitiveness, and/or other priority.
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A computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprising:
- an acquisition interface configured to access from an electronic database computed axial tomography data of a head region of a patient, the computed axial tomography data comprising a volumetric data set of the head region;
- a skull segmentation filter configured to identify a skull region in the volumetric data set and an intracranial region in the volumetric data set;
- an atlas alignment engine configured to access from an atlas database a normative data set based on a computed axial tomography scanner type;
- a registration generator configured to apply an image registration algorithm to generate alignment data, and to align the volumetric data set to the normative data set to generate an aligned volumetric data set using the alignment data;
- a ventricle segmentation filter configured to identify anterior and posterior portions of ventricular regions of the patient in the aligned volumetric data set;
- a reslicing generator configured to reslice the aligned volumetric data set to generate a normalized volumetric data set;
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- an output interface configured to output the alignment data to a picture archiving and communication system or to output the normalized volumetric data set and a visualization corresponding to the anterior and posterior ventricular regions of the patient,
- wherein the computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprises a computer processor and electronic storage medium.
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A computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprising:
- an acquisition interface configured to access from an electronic database computed axial tomography data of a head region of a patient, the computed axial tomography data comprising a volumetric data set of the head region;
- a skull segmentation filter configured to identify a skull region in the volumetric data set and an intracranial region in the volumetric data set;
- an atlas alignment engine configured to access from an atlas database a normative data set based on a computed axial tomography scanner type;
- a registration generator configured to apply an image registration algorithm to align the volumetric data set to the normative data set to generate an aligned volumetric data set;
- a reslicing generator configured to reslice the aligned volumetric data set to generate a normalized volumetric data set;
- a data analysis module configured to compute a statistical measure based on at least some of the volumetric data set and a second normative data set;
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- an output interface configured to output the normalized volumetric data set and the statistical measure,
- wherein the computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprises a computer processor and electronic storage medium.
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A computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprising:
- an acquisition interface configured to access from an electronic database computed axial tomography data of a head region of a patient, the computed axial tomography data comprising a volumetric data set of the head region;
- a skull segmentation filter configured to identify a skull region in the volumetric data set and an intracranial region in the volumetric data set;
- an atlas alignment engine configured to access from an atlas database a normative data set based on a computed axial tomography scanner type;
- a registration generator configured to apply an image registration algorithm to align the volumetric data set to the normative data set to generate an aligned volumetric data set;
- a reslicing generator configured to reslice the aligned volumetric data set to generate a normalized volumetric data set;
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- an output interface configured to output the normalized volumetric data set,
- wherein the computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprises a computer processor and electronic storage medium.
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A computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprising:
- an acquisition interface configured to access from an electronic database computed axial tomography data of a head region of a patient, the computed axial tomography data comprising a volumetric data set of the head region;
- an atlas alignment engine configured to access from an atlas database a normative data set based on a computed axial tomography scanner type;
- an image filter configured to apply a smoothness algorithm to at least a portion of the computed axial tomography data to generate smoothed computed axial tomography data;
- a registration generator configured to apply an image registration algorithm to use the smoothed computed axial tomography data and align the volumetric data set to the normative data set to generate an aligned volumetric data set;
- a reslicing generator configured to reslice the aligned volumetric data set to generate a normalized volumetric data set;
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- an output interface configured to output the normalized volumetric data set,
- wherein the computed axial tomography scan normalization system comprises a computer processor and electronic storage medium.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.