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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, CA;
Shyam Bharat, Arlington, MA (US);
Ehsan Dehghan Marvast, New York, NY (US);
Jochen Kruecker, Washington, DC (US);
Ananth Ravi, Toronto, CA;
Falk Uhlemann, Hamburg, DE;
Cynthia Ming-Fu Kung, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Erik Amthor, Hamburg, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
An interventional therapy system may include at least one controller which may obtain a reference image dataset of an object of interest (OOI); segment the reference image dataset to determine peripheral outlines of the OOI in the plurality image slices; acquire a current image of the OOI using an ultrasound probe; select a peripheral outline of a selected image slice of the plurality of slices of the reference image dataset which is determined to correspond to the current image; and/or modify the selected peripheral outline of the image slice of the plurality of slices of the reference image dataset in accordance with at least one deformation vector.