US 12,263,017 B2
Plane selection using localizer images
Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag, Bangalore (IN); Chitresh Bhushan, Schenectady, NY (US); Arathi Sreekumari, Bangalore (IN); Andre de Almeida Maximo, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore (IN); and Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Clifton Park, NY (US)
Assigned to General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 1, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/051,723.
Prior Publication US 2020/0037962 A1, Feb. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/7267 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0037 (2013.01); A61B 5/004 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/7425 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for imaging an anatomic region of a patient, comprising:
acquiring a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) three-plane localizer images of the patient using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system;
providing the plurality of 2D three-plane localizer images to a localizer network trained to select a subset of the 2D three-plane localizer images for detection of an anatomy-of-interest based on the image contents of the plurality of 2D three-plane localizer images, wherein the localizer network is trained to select a respective 2D three-plane localizer image having the maximal coverage of the anatomy-of-interest;
processing the subset of 2D three-plane localizer images using a scan plane network trained to determine one or more image scan planes or image scan plane parameters for the anatomy-of-interest, wherein the localizer network and the scan plane networks are separate from each other;
generating one or more diagnostic images of the anatomic region of the patient using the MRI system based on the one or more image scan planes or image scan plane parameters; and
wherein the anatomy-of-interest is not segmented prior to determining the one or more image scan planes or image scan plane parameters.