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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2009
Johannes Feulner, Erlangen, DE;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Johannes Feulner, Erlangen, DE;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium store and manage image data with automatic labeling of image data corresponding to body slices, such as obtained by a computed tomography scanner. The labels include a body coordinate value along the body axis. The respective body coordinate value can be determined by comparing received image data sets with reference data sets with known attached coordinate values utilizing pattern recognition techniques. Applications include medical image data management in hospitals or operating and providing medical networks. Queries for images that include particular body regions are processed more efficiently. This results in less local memory required and narrower bandwidth resources of transmission networks.