US 11,995,786 B2
Interactive image editing
Rishabh Shah, Wentworthville (AU); Kaloian Petkov, Lawrenceville, NJ (US); Lev Gretskii, Maple Ridge (CA); Daphne Yu, Yardley, PA (US); and Klaus Engel, Nuremberg (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/647,225.
Claims priority of application No. 21152457 (EP), filed on Jan. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0230408 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/74 (2022.01); G06V 10/77 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 19/20 (2013.01) [G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/761 (2022.01); G06V 10/7715 (2022.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for interactive editing of volumetric image data, the method comprising:
receiving a dataset with volumetric image data acquired from an image acquisition modality;
providing a signed distance field data structure of the received dataset, wherein the signed distance field data structure comprises an additional data structure with respect to the volumetric image data, wherein signed distance field data structure is registered to the received volumetric image data that serves as a primary anatomy image;
receiving editing operations on a user interface for editing at least a part of the provided signed distance field data structure;
rendering a visualization of the primary anatomy image by sampling visual effects provided by the editing operations;
displaying the visualization on a display.