US 12,229,953 B2
System and method for visualizing placement of a medical tube or line
Pal Tegzes, Budapest (HU); Zita Herczeg, Szeged (HU); Tao Tan, Nuenen (NL); Balazs Peter Cziria, Budapest (HU); Alec Joseph Baenen, Hartland, WI (US); Gireesha Chintharnani Rao, Pewaukee, WI (US); Lehel Ferenczi, Budapest (HU); Gopal Biligeri Avinash, Concord, CA (US); Zoltan Kiss, Budapest (HU); Hongxu Yang, Utrecht (NL); and Beth Ann Heckel, Waukesha, WI (US)
Assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US)
Filed by GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/951,281.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/282,814, filed on Nov. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0162352 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A medical image processing system, comprising:
a display;
a processor; and
a memory storing processor-executable code that when executed by the processor causes:
receiving structural anatomic image data associated with an enteric tube or line disposed within a region of interest comprising all or part of a chest or abdominal region of a patient;
detecting the enteric tube or line within the structural anatomic image data;
detecting one or more anatomic reference landmarks within the structural anatomic image data, wherein the one or more anatomical reference landmarks are within the region of interest;
generating a combined image by superimposing one or more graphical markers on an image derived based on the structural anatomic image data, wherein the one or more graphical markers indicate one or more features of the enteric tube or line in an anatomic context determined based on the one or more anatomic reference landmarks; and
displaying the combined image on the display.