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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2015
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Bipul Das, Bangalore, IN;
Uday Damodar Patil, Bangalore, IN;
Ajay Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Naga Venkata Kartheek Medathati, Sathupally, IN;
Harshit Sureka, Madhya Pradesh, IN;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20164 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes receiving a Computed Tomography (CT) image comprising a head of a subject from a CT scanner and detecting a first and a second petrous bone of the head in the CT image. The method further includes determining a nasion of the head in the CT image based on the first and the second petrous bone. The method also includes generating a reference plane of the head based on the nasion and the first and the second petrous bone.