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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Ruhan Sa, Amherst, NY (US);
Birgi Tamersoy, Erlangen, DE;
Yao-jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Klaus J. Kirchberg, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Vivek Kumar Singh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Terrence Chen, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G01G 19/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 9/005 (2013.01); A61B 5/0064 (2013.01); A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/0082 (2013.01); A61B 5/107 (2013.01); A61B 5/1073 (2013.01); A61B 5/1079 (2013.01); A61B 5/4839 (2013.01); A61B 5/7264 (2013.01); A61B 5/7267 (2013.01); A61B 5/7271 (2013.01); A61B 5/7278 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61N 5/103 (2013.01); A61N 5/1031 (2013.01); A61N 5/1039 (2013.01); G01G 19/44 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0475 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1059 (2013.01);
Abstract
For patient weight estimation in a medical imaging system, a patient model, such as a mesh, is fit to a depth image. One or more feature values are extracted from the fit patient model, reducing the noise and clutter in the values. The weight estimation is regressed from the extracted features.