US 11,931,195 B2
Assessment of coronary artery calcification in angiographic images
Lucian Mihai Itu, Brasov (RO); Diana Ioana Stoian, Brasov (RO); Tiziano Passerini, Plainsboro, NJ (US); and Puneet Sharma, Princeton Junction, NJ (US)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Appl. No. 17/602,820
Filed by Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/000792
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 11, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/014181, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0151580 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G16H 50/20 (2018.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 6/504 (2013.01) [A61B 6/487 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10121 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving one or more first medical images of a vessel in a first modality and one or more second medical images of the vessel in a second modality;
detecting calcified portions of the vessel in the one or more first medical images; and
training an artificial intelligence model for detecting calcified portions of a vessel in an input medical image in the second modality based on the one or more second medical images and the calcified portions of the vessel detected in the one or more first medical images.