Method for controlling scanner by estimating patient internal anatomical structures from surface data using body-surface and organ-surface latent variables

US11478212B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

• Vivek Singh · Monmouth Junction, US
• Andreas Krauss · Lörrach, DE
• Birgi Tamersoy · Erlangen, DE
• Terrence Chen · Princeton, US
• Kai Ma · Plainsboro, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 2018
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2022
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/20084
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for controlling a scanner comprises: sensing an outer surface of a body of a subject to collect body surface data, using machine learning to predict a surface of an internal organ of the subject based on the body surface data, and controlling the scanner based on the predicted surface of the internal organ.