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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2007
Celine Pruvot, Buc, FR;
Laurent Jean Lucien Stefani, Paris, FR;
Celine Pruvot, Buc, FR;
Laurent Jean Lucien Stefani, Paris, FR;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer products for automatically extracting automatically cardiac calcifications and obtaining a centerline in the tracking. Exemplary embodiments include a method of cardiac diagnostics, the method including obtaining coronary tree segmentation to obtain cardiac volume information, splitting the volume into portions to obtain an adjacency graph, computing a mean of a sub-volume of the volume, obtaining gray value segmentation of the sub-volume, defining a centerline of a blood vessel that avoids calcifications within the blood vessel and detecting an actual centerline of the blood vessel and enhancing lumen visualization of the blood vessel.