Imaging device, assignment system and method for assignment of localization data

US9629599B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Anna Jerebko · Eschborn, DE
• Michael Kelm · Friedberg, DE
• Michael Suehling · Erlangen, DE
• Michael Wels · Bamberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 11, 2014
• Grant date: Apr 25, 2017
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30068
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of assigning first localization data of a breast of a patient derived from first image data of the breast, the first image data being the result of a first radiological data acquisition process, to second localization data of the same breast derived from second image data, the second image data being the result of a second radiological data acquisition process, or vice versa. Thereby, the first localization data are assigned to the second localization data by intermediately mapping them into breast model data representing a patient-specific breast shape of the patient and then onto the second image data—or vice versa, thereby deriving assignment data. An assignment system performs the above-described method.