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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2014
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Cecile Dufour, Eindhoven, NL;
Raphael Manua Michel Prevost, Eindhoven, NL;
Benoit Jean-Dominique Bertrand Maurice Mory, Eindhoven, NL;
Roberto Jose Ardon, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system () for inspecting an object () in a volume (). The ultrasound imaging system comprises an ultrasound image acquisition probe () for acquiring three-dimensional ultrasound images and providing three-dimensional ultrasound image data, comprising a tracking device () for tracking a position of the ultrasound image acquisition probe () and providing a viewpoint position () of the three-dimensional ultrasound images. By this, an improved initialization and improved co-registration and co-segmentation is enabled by providing a plurality of three-dimensional ultrasound images and their respective viewpoint positions (), and to conduct a segmentation () of the object () simultaneously out of the plurality of three-dimensional ultrasound images and taking into account the viewpoint positions ().