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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for whole-body spine labeling. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring a non-functional image volume of a spine, acquiring a functional image volume of the spine, determining at least one spine label seed point on a non-functional image volume, automatically labeling the non-functional image volume with a plurality of spine labels based on the at least one spine label seed point, automatically correcting the geometric misalignments and registering the functional image volume, adjusting the plurality of spine labels and propagating the adjusted spine labels to the functional image volume. In this way, the anatomical details of non-functional imaging volumes may be leveraged to improve clinical diagnoses based on functional imaging, such as diffusion weighted imaging (DWI).