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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2017
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Renato Keshet, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/02 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/02 (2013.01); A61B 8/0883 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/0016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present approach relates to extracting a heart cycle signal from ultrasound sequences (e.g., echocardiograms) without complex spatial image processing and without finding or assuming the knowledge of the position of heart reference points. The present heart cycle signal is computed by determining temporal changes in low-resolution versions of the echocardiographic frames, such as temporal information of the heartbeat.