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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Menachem Halmann, Bayside, WI (US);
Paul Lawrence Mullen, Waukesha, WI (US);
Feng Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Eunji Kang, Brookfield, WI (US);
Kuiquan Zhang, Wuxi, CN;
Bo Li, Wuxi, CN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A process for visualization of a needle in an ultrasound image comprises defining a region of an ultrasound image in which a body of a needle is expected using a needle tracking system to predict the location of the needle. The process also includes assigning a probability to a plurality of pixels within the region of the ultrasound image of being representative of the body of the needle, and modifying the display of each pixel having an assigned probability within a predetermined range.