Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

General Electric Company

Kavitha Manickam

Jignesh Dholakia

Raghu Prasad

Vignesh Singh

Sandeep Lakshmipathy

Ramesh Venkatesan

Rajagopalan Sundaresan

Rakesh Shrikant Shevde

Krishnan Varadarajan

Prakruthi Jakathe

Methods and systems are provided for whole-body spine labeling. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring a non-functional image volume of a spine, acquiring a functional image volume of the spine, determining at least one spine label seed point on a non-functional image volume, automatically labeling the non-functional image volume with a plurality of spine labels based on the at least one spine label seed point, automatically correcting the geometric misalignments and registering the functional image volume, adjusting the plurality of spine labels and propagating the adjusted spine labels to the functional image volume. In this way, the anatomical details of non-functional imaging volumes may be leveraged to improve clinical diagnoses based on functional imaging, such as diffusion weighted imaging (DWI).

Systems and methods for whole-body spine labeling

Methods and systems are provided for whole-body spine labeling. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring a non-functional image volume of a spine, acquiring a functional image volume of the spine, automatically labeling the non-functional image volume with spine labels, automatically correcting the geometric misalignments and registering the functional image volume, and propagating the spine labels to the functional image volume. In this way, the anatomical details of non-functional imaging volumes may be leveraged to improve clinical diagnoses based on functional imaging, such as diffusion weighted imaging (DWI).

Systems and methods for deep learning based automated spine registration and label propagation

A method and system for automatically labeling a spine image is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input spine image and analyzing image features of the input spine image by a deep neural network. The method further includes generating a mask image corresponding to the input spine image by the deep neural network based on image characteristics of a training image dataset. A region of interest in the mask image comprises vertebral candidates of the spine. The training image dataset comprises a plurality of spine images and a plurality of corresponding mask images. The method further includes associating labels with a plurality of image components of the mask image and labeling the input spine image based on labels associated with the mask image.

Methods and systems for labeling whole spine image using deep neural network

Methods and systems for addressing malfunction of a medical imaging device are disclosed. The method includes classifying a type of an image artifact in a medical image acquired by the medical imaging device by using a trained machine learning model. The method also includes analyzing system data associated with acquisition of the medical image to identify one or more system parameters that might have contributed to the type of image artifact and providing an action for addressing the image artifact based on the identified one or more system parameters.

Machine learning based method and system for analyzing image artifacts and imaging system failure

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