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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2009
Applicant:
Carmel Hayes, Munich, DE;
Inventor:
Carmel Hayes, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is disclosed for processing medical image data which image a structure layer by layer, the image data for at least some layers respectively including a plurality of layer images. In at least one embodiment, the method includes segmentation of the structure in the layer images and determination respectively of a position of a point in a layer image. In at least one embodiment, at least one layer image set is furthermore compiled on the basis of the representative points in the layer images.