Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Deepa Anand

Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag

Chitresh Bhushan

Rakesh Mullick

Soumya Ghose

Pavan Annangi

Radhika Madhavan

Bipul Das

Arathi Sreekumari

Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo

Krishna Seetharam Shriram

Sandeep Dutta

Mahendra Madhukar Patil

Marc Thomas Edgar

Dawei Gui

Rahul Venkataramani

Desmond Teck Beng Yeo

Sudhanya Chatterjee

Bhushan Dayaram Patil

Maud Bonnard

Eigil Samset

Uday Damodar Patil

Stephan W Anzengruber

Kavitha Manickam

Vanika Singhal

Florintina C

Sanjay Kumar Nt

Suresh Emmanuel Devadoss Joel

Annangi V Pavan Kumar

Syed Asad Hashmi

The current disclosure provides systems and methods for improving a visualization of an image volume of a uterus and/or endometrium of a subject acquired using a transvaginal ultrasound system (TVUS). In one example, a method for the TVUS comprises extracting a medial axis of an endometrium of a received two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound image of a uterus of a subject; generating a uterine trace line based on the extracted medial axis; acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) image volume of the uterus based on the uterine trace line; and displaying the 3D image volume on a display device of the TVUS.

Automation of transvaginal ultrasound workflow

Systems/techniques that facilitate anatomy-driven augmentation of medical images are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a medical image and a ground-truth segmentation mask corresponding to the medical image, wherein the ground-truth segmentation mask can indicate a location of a first anatomical structure depicted in the medical image. In various aspects, the system can create an augmented version of the medical image and an augmented version of the ground-truth segmentation mask, by applying a continuous deformation field to fewer than all pixels or voxels in the medical image and in the ground-truth segmentation mask. In various instances, the continuous deformation field can encompass: pixels or voxels that correspond to the first anatomical structure; and pixels or voxels that correspond to a surrounding periphery of the first anatomical structure.

Anatomy-driven augmentation of medical images

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

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

Techniques are described for generating high quality training data collections for training artificial intelligence (AI) models in the medical imaging domain. A method embodiment comprises receiving, by a system comprising processor, input indicating a clinical context associated with usage of a medical image dataset, and selecting, by the system, one or more data scrutiny metrics for filtering the medical image dataset based on the clinical context. The method further comprises applying, by the system, one or more image processing functions to the medical image dataset to generate metric values of the one or more data scrutiny metrics for respective medical images included in the medical image dataset, filtering, by the system, the medical image dataset into one or more subsets based on one or more acceptability criteria for the metric values.

Generating high quality training data collections for training artificial intelligence models

Systems and techniques that facilitate data diversity visualization and/or quantification for machine learning models are provided. In various embodiments, a processor can access a first dataset and a second dataset, where a machine learning (ML) model is trained on the first dataset. In various instances, the processor can obtain a first set of latent activations generated by the ML model based on the first dataset, and a second set of latent activations generated by the ML model based on the second dataset. In various aspects, the processor can generate a first set of compressed data points based on the first set of latent activations, and a second set of compressed data points based on the second set of latent activations, via dimensionality reduction. In various instances, a diversity component can compute a diversity score based on the first set of compressed data points and second set of compressed data points.

Data diversity visualization and quantification for machine learning models

Systems/techniques that facilitate deep learning multi-planar reformatting of medical images are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a three-dimensional medical image. In various aspects, the system can localize, via execution of a machine learning model, a set of landmarks depicted in the three-dimensional medical image, a set of principal anatomical planes depicted in the three-dimensional medical image, and a set of organs depicted in the three-dimensional medical image. In various instances, the system can determine an anatomical orientation exhibited by the three-dimensional medical image, based on the set of landmarks, the set of principal anatomical planes, or the set of organs. In various cases, the system can rotate the three-dimensional medical image, such that the anatomical orientation now matches a predetermined anatomical orientation.

Deep learning multi-planar reformatting of medical images

Systems and method for domain adaptation using pseudo-labelling and model certainty quantification for video data are provided. The method includes obtaining a source data and a target data each comprising a plurality of frames for processing by a machine learning module. The method comprises testing the target data to identify if a minimum number of frames exhibit a frame confidence score based on the source data and identifying salient region within the target data and measuring a degree of spatial consistency of the salient region over time. The method comprises identifying class specific attention region within the target data and measuring a confidence score of class specific attention region within the target data and carrying out pseudo-labeling of the target data based on the source data and calculating a certainty metrics value based on the frame confidence score, the degree of spatial consistency of the salient region over time, the confidence score of class specific attention region within the frames of the target data and confidence score of the pseudo-labeling on the target data. The machine learning module is retrained till the certainty metrics value reaches peak and further retraining the machine learning module does not increase the certainty metrics value.

Domain adaptation using pseudo-labelling and model certainty quantification for video data

Systems/techniques that facilitate interpretable task-specific dimensionality-reduction are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a three-dimensional medical image. In various aspects, the system can generate, via execution of a first deep learning neural network, a voxel-wise weight map corresponding to the three-dimensional medical image and a set of projection vectors corresponding to the three-dimensional medical image. In various instances, the system can generate a set of two-dimensional projection images of the three-dimensional medical image, based on the voxel-wise weight map and the set of projection vectors. In various cases, the first deep learning neural network can be trained in a serial pipeline with a second deep learning neural network that is configured to perform an inferencing task on two-dimensional inputs. This can cause the set of two-dimensional projection images to be tailored to the inferencing task.

Interpretable task-specific dimensionality reduction

Techniques are described for learning feature representations of medical images using a self-supervised learning paradigm and employing those feature representations for automating downstream tasks such as image retrieval, image classification and other medical image processing tasks. According to an embodiment, computer-implemented method comprises generating alternate view images for respective medical images included in set of training images using one or more image augmentation techniques or one or more image selection techniques tailored based on domain knowledge associated with the respective medical images. The method further comprises training a transformer network to learn reference feature representations for the respective medical images using their alternate view images and a self-supervised training process. The method further comprises storing the reference feature representations in an indexed data structure with information identifying the respective medical images that correspond to the reference feature representations.

Self-supervised representation learning paradigm for medical 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 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

Various methods and systems are provided for bicuspid valve detection with ultrasound imaging. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring ultrasound video of a heart over at least one cardiac cycle, identifying frames in the ultrasound video corresponding to at least one cardiac phase, and classifying a cardiac structure in the identified frames as a bicuspid valve or a tricuspid valve. A generative model such as a variational autoencoder trained on ultrasound image frames at the at least one cardiac phase may be used to classify the cardiac structure. In this way, relatively rare occurrences of bicuspid aortic valves may be automatically detected during regular cardiac ultrasound screenings.

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