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- Patent Title: Method, system, and computer product for automatically extracting and tracking cardiac calcifications and determining a tracking centerline
- Patent Title (中): 方法,系统和计算机产品,用于自动提取和跟踪心脏钙化并确定跟踪中心线
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Application No.: US11985775Application Date: 2007-11-16
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Publication No.: US07993274B2Publication Date: 2011-08-09
- Inventor: Celine Pruvot , Laurent Jean Lucien Stefani
- Applicant: Celine Pruvot , Laurent Jean Lucien Stefani
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: A61B8/14
- IPC: A61B8/14 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
Systems, methods and computer products for automatically extracting automatically cardiac calcifications and obtaining a centerline in the tracking. Exemplary embodiments include a method of cardiac diagnostics, the method including obtaining coronary tree segmentation to obtain cardiac volume information, splitting the volume into portions to obtain an adjacency graph, computing a mean of a sub-volume of the volume, obtaining gray value segmentation of the sub-volume, defining a centerline of a blood vessel that avoids calcifications within the blood vessel and detecting an actual centerline of the blood vessel and enhancing lumen visualization of the blood vessel.
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