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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ileana Hancu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Desmond Teck-Beng Yeo, Albany, NY (US);
Arathi Sreekumari, Bangalore, IN;
Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag, Bangalore, IN;
Dirk Wim Jos Beque, Munich, DE;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides, in certain implementations, a rule-based or deep learning-based approach capable of assessing diagnostic utility of images in near real time with respect to acquisition. Correspondingly, an automated implementation of such an algorithm on the scanner would, in fact, emulate the doctor himself rating images in real time, and reduce the number of unneeded re-scans and recalls. In one aspect of the present invention it was found that diagnostic utility of an image is not an absolute measure, but instead depends upon the reading radiologist and the scan indication (i.e., the purpose of the scan). Therefore, adapting the threshold (probability of an imaging volume to be deemed good) as a function of reading radiologist and scan indication can result in decreasing the number of re-scans and recalls.