Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Coupled segmentation in 3D conventional ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound images
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Application No.: US14424087Application Date: 2013-08-16
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Publication No.: US09934579B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Raphael Manua Michel Prevost , Roberto Jose Ardon , Benoit Jean-Dominique Bertrand Maurice Mory
- 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
- Priority: EP12306033 20120830
- International Application: PCT/IB2013/056676 WO 20130816
- International Announcement: WO2014/033584 WO 20140306
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T3/00 ; G06T7/12 ; G06T7/149 ; G06T7/174

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system (10) for inspecting an object (97) in a volume (40). The ultrasound imaging system comprises an image processor (36) configured to conduct a segmentation (80) of the object (97) simultaneously out of three-dimensional ultrasound mage data (62) and contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data (60). In particular, this may be done by minimizing an energy tem taking into account both the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data. By this, the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data may even be registered during segmentation. Hence, this invention allows a more precise quantification of one organ in two different modalities as well as the registration of two images for simultaneous visualization.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150213613A1 COUPLED SEGMENTATION IN 3D CONVENTIONAL ULTRASOUND AND CONTRAST-EHHANCED ULTRASOUND IMAGES Public/Granted day:2015-07-30
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