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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
For measurement point determination in imaging with a medical scanner, the user selects a location on the image. Rather than using that location, an 'intended' location corresponding to a local boundary or landmark represented in the image is identified. The medical scanner uses the simple user interface to more exactly determine points for measurement. One or more rays are cast from the user selected location. The actual location is found by examining data along the ray or rays. For 2D imaging, the rays are cast in the plane. For 3D imaging, the ray is cast along a view direction to find the depth. The intensities along the ray or around the ray are used to find the actual location, such as by application of a machine-learnt classifier to the limited region around the ray or by finding intensities along the ray relative to a threshold.