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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2016
Brainlab Ag, Munich, DE;
Rainer Lachner, Munich, DE;
Mona Frommert, Munich, DE;
Brainlab AG, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for determining a position of a brain sulcus in the brain of a patient, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: acquiring, at the at least one processor, patient image data describing a digital medical image of at least part of the brain; acquiring, at the at least one processor, atlas data describing an image-based model of the at least part of the brain; determining, by the at least one processor and based on the patient image data and the atlas data, mapping data describing a transformation between the patient image data and the atlas data; and determining, by the at least one processor and based on the patient image data and the atlas data and the mapping data, sulcus position data describing the position of the brain sulcus in the digital medical image.