Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Support apparatus for supporting a user in a diagnosis process
-
Application No.: US14767921Application Date: 2014-03-19
-
Publication No.: US09760993B2Publication Date: 2017-09-12
- Inventor: Nicole Schadewaldt , Julien Senegas , Steffen Renisch , Heinrich Schulz
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2014/059961 WO 20140319
- International Announcement: WO2014/155243 WO 20141002
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; G06T7/33 ; G06T7/149

Abstract:
The invention relates to a support apparatus (1) for supporting a user in a diagnosis process, especially for assisting a physician in staging prostate cancer. A segmentation unit (3) determines three-dimensional segments of an anatomical object like a prostate based on a three-dimensional image being preferentially a magnetic resonance image, wherein the segments comprise anatomical segment boundaries and non-anatomical segment boundaries. A visualization generating unit (4) generates a visualization of the segments in the image, a graphical user interface providing unit (5) provides a graphical user interface allowing the user to assign scores to the determined three-dimensional segments, and a display (9) displays the visualization and the graphical user interface. Thus, an automatic delineation of segments may be provided to which a user like a physician can assign scores, wherein based on the scores assigned to the segments a diagnosis can be performed, in particular, prostate cancer can be staged.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160217570A1 SUPPORT APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING A USER IN A DIAGNOSIS PROCESS Public/Granted day:2016-07-28
Information query