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Estimating body surface models of patients

US10331850B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

Vivek Singh · Monmouth Junction, US
Yao-Jen Chang
Kai Ma · Plainsboro, US
Terrence Chen · Princeton, US
Michael Wels · Bamberg, DE
Grzegorz Soza · Heroldsberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 27, 2015
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 17, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG16H30/20
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for estimating a body surface model of a patient includes: (a) segmenting, by a computer processor, three-dimensional sensor image data to isolate patient data from environmental data; (b) categorizing, by the computer processor, a body pose of the patient from the patient data using a first trained classifier; (c) parsing, by the computer processor, the patient data to an anatomical feature of the patient using a second trained classifier, wherein the parsing is based on a result of the categorizing; and (d) estimating, by the computer processor, the body surface model of the patient based on a result of the parsing. Systems for estimating a body surface model of a patient are described.

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