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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2025
Applicant:
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Inventor:
Huseyin Tek, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/0883 (2013.01); A61B 8/0858 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/481 (2013.01); A61B 8/485 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/5253 (2013.01); A61B 8/5284 (2013.01); A61B 2576/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
For boundary detection, such as heart wall detection for strain or another quantification, the boundary is detected using multiple types of imaging, such as B-mode and contrast. The confidence in the detected locations is used to form a more accurate boundary, such as replacing low confidence locations from B-mode imaging with higher confidence locations from the contrast imaging. Even where experts may struggle to identify boundaries, a more accurate boundary is created and used by the image processor or processing.