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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Avi Bar-shalev, Kiryet-Haim, IL;
Inventor:
Avi Bar-Shalev, Kiryet-Haim, IL;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/166 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0044 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10108 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30061 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for locating a region of interest in an object are provided. One method includes acquiring planar nuclear medicine (NM) images of a subject from an NM system, wherein the planar NM images include at least one identified region of interest. The method also includes acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) x-ray Computed Tomography (CT) volume image of the subject from an x-ray CT system and locating the region of interest within the 3D CT volume image using the planar NM images.