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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2017
The Government of the United States As Represented BY the Secretary of the Army, Fort Detrick, MD (US);
Shane B. Anderson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Lorne H. Blackbourne, Austin, TX (US);
Mariya Gusman, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jose Salinas, Fort Sam Houston, TX (US);
The Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, Ft. Detrick, MD (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention provides a method to measure fluid within a body cavity where data is received with an interface (), the data being received from an ultrasound transducer. A three-dimensional sonographic image is generated with an image generator () connected to the interface (), the three-dimensional sonographic image being generated from the data from the ultrasound transducer. The body cavity is identified in the three-dimensional sonographic image with an image processor () connected to the image generator (); and, an area of fluid in the body cavity in the three-dimensional sonographic image is identified with the image processor (). The volume of the area of fluid is calculated using the three-dimensional sonographic image and a stacked crescents process, a spherical fill process, a convex hull process, and/or a triangulation process.