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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Takao Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/483 (2006.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/628 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/489 (2013.01); A61B 5/7264 (2013.01); G01R 33/4835 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01); G06K 9/2054 (2013.01); G06K 2209/051 (2013.01);
Abstract
An MRI apparatuscomprising an image producing unitfor producing a plurality of axial images Dto Din a plurality of slices defined in a body part to be imaged containing a blood vessel; a classifying unitfor classifying the plurality of axial images Dto Dinto a plurality of classes I to IV based on which a portion of the imaged body part each of the plurality of axial images Dto Drepresents; and a defining unitfor defining a search region for searching for a blood vessel from within an axial image based on within which of the plurality of classes I to IV the axial image falls.