US 12,290,390 B2
Automated scout scan examination
Charles Loeb Truwit, Wayzata, MN (US); Rolf Juergen Weese, Norderstedt (DE); and Guenter Zeitler, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/797,121
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Jan. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/051742
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/156105, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/971,323, filed on Feb. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 20157670 (EP), filed on Feb. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0067146 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/46 (2024.01); G06T 7/10 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 6/488 (2013.01) [A61B 6/463 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); G06T 7/10 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10072 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical system comprising:
a tomographic medical imaging system configured to acquire medical imaging data from an imaging zone;
a memory configured to store machine executable instructions and medical imaging system control commands configured to control the tomographic medical imaging system to acquire tomographic medical scout image data;
an anatomical detection module, wherein the anatomical detection module is configured to detect an anatomical deviation in response to inputting tomographic medical scout image data, wherein the anatomical detection module is configured to output a localization of the anatomical deviation in the tomographic medical scout image data if the anatomical deviation is detected;
a processor configured to control the medical system, wherein execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to:
acquire the tomographic medical scout image data by controlling the tomographic medical imaging system with the medical imaging system control commands;
receive clinical scan planning data in response to acquiring the tomographic medical scout image data, wherein the tomographic medical scout image data is descriptive of a first region, wherein the clinical scan planning data is configured to modify the medical imaging system control commands to acquire clinical tomographic medical image data descriptive of a second region, wherein the second region is within the first region, wherein the clinical tomographic medical image data has a higher resolution than the tomographic medical scout image data;
construct clinical control commands by modifying the medical imaging system control commands with the clinical scan planning data; and
acquire the clinical tomographic medical imaging data by controlling the medical imaging system with the clinical control commands;
input the tomographic medical scout image data into the anatomical detection module;
receive the localization of the anatomical deviation from the anatomical detection module in response to inputting the tomographic medical scout image data into the anatomical detection module;
provide a warning signal if the localization is received;
receive an incidental scan indicator from a physician or healthcare professional either via a user interface in response to providing the warning signal or from a selected computing device via a network connection in response to sending the warning signal to the selected computing device, wherein the incidental scan indicator provides a discharge subject selector or an incidental scan selector;
provide a discharge subject signal after completing acquisition of the clinical tomographic medical imaging data if the incidental scan indicator provides the discharge subject selector;
receive incidental scan planning data if the incidental scan indicator provides the incidental scan selector.