Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

General Electric Company

Chitresh Bhushan

Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag

Soumya Ghose

Deepa Anand

Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo

Dawei Gui

André De Almeida Maximo

Radhika Madhavan

Rakesh Mullick

Desmond Teck Beng Yeo

Kavitha Manickam

Arathi Sreekumari

Florian Wiesinger

Harsh Kumar Agarwal

Florintina C

Amod Suhas Jog

Systems and methods are provided for an image processing system. In an example, a method includes acquiring a pathology dataset, acquiring a reference dataset, generating a deformation field by mapping points of a reference case of the reference dataset to points of a patient image of the pathology dataset, manipulating the deformation field, applying the deformation field to the reference case to generate a simulated pathology image including a simulated deformation pathology, and outputting the simulated pathology image.

Simulating pathology images based on anatomy data

A computer implemented method is provided. The method includes establishing, via multiple processors, a continuous federated learning framework including a global model at a global site and respective local models derived from the global model at respective local sites. The method also includes retraining or retuning, via the multiple processors, the global model and the respective local models without sharing actual datasets between the global site and the respective local sites but instead sharing synthetic datasets generated from the actual datasets.

System and method for deep learning techniques utilizing continuous federated learning with a distributed data generative model

Methods and systems are provided for automatic placement of at least one saturation band on a medical image, which may direct saturation pulses during a MRI scan. A method may include acquiring a localizer image of an imaging subject, determining a plane mask for the localizer image by entering the localizer image as input to a deep neural network trained to output the plane mask based on the localizer image, generating a saturation band based on the plane mask by positioning the saturation band at a position and an angulation of the plane mask, and outputting a graphical prescription for display on a display device, the graphical prescription including the saturation band overlaid on the medical image.

Methods and systems for automated saturation band placement

Systems and methods for workflow management for labeling the subject anatomy are provided. The method comprises obtaining at least one localizer image of a subject anatomy using a low-resolution medical imaging device. The method further comprises labeling at least one anatomical point within the at least one localizer image. The method further comprises extracting using a machine learning module a mask of the at least one localizer image comprising the at least one anatomical point label. The method further comprises using the mask to label at least one anatomical point on a high-resolution image of the subject anatomy based on the at least one anatomical point within the localizer image.

Workflow management for labeling the subject anatomy

A method for performing a scan of a subject utilizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes triggering a prescan by an MRI scanner of the MRI system upon the subject being setup on a table of the MRI scanner and the table reaching an iso-center of the MRI scanner. The method includes subsequent to the prescan, triggering a calibration scan of the subject with the MRI scanner, wherein the calibration scan is an acoustic noise suppressed MRI scan. The method includes obtaining calibration data from the calibration scan. The method includes obtaining prescription parameters for subsequent scans of the subject with the MRI scanner from the calibration data. The method includes triggering at least one scan of the subject with the MRI scanner based on the prescription parameters.

System and method for improving magnetic resonance scanning workflow

The present disclosure relates to use of a workflow for automatic prescription of different radiological imaging scan planes across different anatomies and modalities. The automated prescription of such imaging scan planes helps ensure contiguous visualization of the different landmark structures. Unlike prior approaches, the disclosed technique determines the necessary planes using the localizer images itself and does not explicitly segment or delineate the landmark structures to perform plane prescription.

Plane selection using localizer images

A medical imaging system includes at least one medical imaging device providing image data of a subject and a processing system programmed to generate a plurality of training images having simulated medical conditions by blending a pathology region from a plurality of template source images to a plurality of target images. The processing system is further programmed to train a deep learning network model using the plurality of training images and input the image data of the subject to the deep learning network model. The processing system is further programmed to generate a medical image of the subject based on the output of the deep learning network model.

Deep learning based medical system and method for image acquisition

A computer-implemented method for performing a scan of a subject utilizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes initiating, via a processor, a prescan of the subject by an MRI scanner of the MRI system without a priori knowledge as to whether the subject has a metal implant. The computer-implemented method also includes executing, via the processor, a metal detection algorithm during a prescan entry point of the prescan to detect whether the metal implant is present in the subject. The computer-implemented method further includes determining, via the processor, to proceed with a calibration scan and the scan utilizing predetermined scan parameters when no metal implant is detected in the subject. The computer-implemented method even further includes switching, via the processor, into a metal implant scan mode when one or more metal implants are detected in the subject.

System and method for adaptive magnetic resonance imaging workflows from prescan data for subjects with metal

A method for generating an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is presented. The method includes first performing a localizer scan of the subject to acquire localizer scan data. A machine learning (ML) module is then used to detect the presence of metal regions in the localizer scan data based on magnitude and phase information of the localizer scan data. Based on the detected metal regions in the localizer scan data, the MRI workflow is adjusted for diagnostic scan of the subject. The image of the subject is then generated using the adjusted workflow.

System and method for improved metal detection in magnetic resonance imaging

A computer-implemented method of automatically labeling medical images is provided. The method includes clustering training images and training labels into clusters, each cluster including a representative template having a representative image and a representative label. The method also includes training a neural network model with a training dataset that includes the training images and the training labels, and target outputs of the neural network model are labels of the medical images. The method further includes generating a suboptimal label corresponding to an unlabeled test image using the trained neural network model, and generating an optimal label corresponding to the unlabeled test image using the suboptimal label and representative templates. In addition, the method includes updating the training dataset using the test image and the optimal label, retraining the neural network model, generating a label of an unlabeled image using the retrained neural network model, and outputting the generated label.

Systems and methods of automatic medical image labeling

Techniques are described for generating reformatted views of a three-dimensional (3D) anatomy scan using deep-learning estimated scan prescription masks. According to an embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components comprise a mask generation component that employs a pre-trained neural network model to generate masks for different anatomical landmarks depicted in one or more calibration images captured of an anatomical region of a patient. The computer executable components further comprise a reformatting component that reformats 3D image data captured of the anatomical region of the patient using the masks to generate different representations of the 3D image data that correspond to the different anatomical landmarks.

Generating reformatted views of a three-dimensional anatomy scan using deep-learning estimated scan prescription masks

Methods and systems are provided for determining scan settings for a localizer scan based on a magnetic resonance (MR) calibration image. In one example, a method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes acquiring an MR calibration image of an imaging subject, mapping, by a trained deep neural network, the MR calibration image to a corresponding anatomical region of interest (ROI) attribute map for an anatomical ROI of the imaging subject, adjusting one or more localizer scan parameters based on the anatomical ROI attribute map, and acquiring one or more localizer images of the anatomical ROI according to the one or more localizer scan parameters.

Systems and methods for generating localizer scan settings from calibration images

The present disclosure relates to the classification of images, such as medical images using machine learning techniques. In certain aspects, the technique may employ a distance metric for the purpose of classification, where the distance metric determined for a given image with respect to a homogenous group or class of images is used to classify the image.

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