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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for ultrasound image rendering are provided. One system includes a user interface having a display configured to display ultrasound images for a volume data set and a content detection module configured to detect an object within the volume data set. The system also includes an image-processing module configured to receive ultrasound signals from a diagnostic probe and process the signals to generate the ultrasound images. The image-processing module is further configured to locally change an opacity function of the displayed ultrasound image based on the detected object to change an opacity of a subset of voxels in the volume data set.