AUTOMATIC SLICE SELECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGING

    公开(公告)号:US20210158526A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US17047102

    申请日:2019-04-12

    摘要: The invention provides for a medical imaging system (100, 300, 400, 700) comprising: a memory (110) for storing machine executable instructions (120) and a processor (106) for controlling the medical imaging system. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: receive (200) three-dimensional medical image data (122) comprising multiple slices; receive (202) an imaging modality (124) of the three-dimensional medical image data; receive (204) an anatomical view classification (126) of the three-dimensional medical image data; select (206) a chosen abnormality detection module (130) from a set of abnormality detection modules (128) using the imaging modality and the anatomical view classification, wherein at least a portion of the abnormality detection modules is a convolution neural network trained for identifying if the at least a portion of the multiple slices as either normal or abnormal; classify (208) the at least a portion of the multiple slices as normal or abnormal using the abnormality detection module; and choose (210) a set of selected slices (136) from the multiple slices according to a predetermined selection criteria (134) if a predetermined number of the multiple slices are classified as abnormal.

    Method for aligning spatially different subvolumes of ultrasonic data of a blood vessel

    公开(公告)号:US11382596B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US14906611

    申请日:2014-07-14

    摘要: A method for aligning spatially different subvolumes of ultrasonic data of a blood vessel comprising: acquiring temporally discrete signals of a blood vessel with elements of a two dimensional array of ultrasonic transducer elements from spatially different depths of scanning opposed by each transducer element, said array being located in a first position with respect to the blood vessel during the acquiring; Doppler processing the temporally discrete signals received from each transducer element to produce spectral Doppler data of the scanning depth opposed by each transducer element; producing a first three dimensional map of the spectral Doppler data in spatial relationship to the position of the array with respect to the blood vessel; acquiring temporally discrete signals of the blood vessel with elements of the two dimensional array of ultrasonic transducer elements from spatially different depths of scanning opposed by each transducer element, said array being located in a second position with respect to the blood vessel during the acquiring; Doppler processing the temporally discrete signals received from each transducer element to produce spectral Doppler data of the scanning depth opposed by each transducer element; producing a second three dimensional map of the spectral Doppler data in spatial relationship to the position of the array with respect to the blood vessel; aligning the first three dimensional map with the second three dimensional map on the basis of one or more regions of matching spectral Doppler data of the two map; and producing a combined three dimension map of the blood flow of the vessel from the aligned first and second three dimensional maps.