US 12,458,232 B2
Medical image visualization apparatus and method for diagnosis of aorta
Hyungi Seo, Goyang-si (KR); Donghoon Yu, Gimpo-si (KR); Jaeyoun Yi, Seoul (KR); Jin Kook Kim, Seoul (KR); Sunggoo Kwon, Guri-si (KR); Seungbin Bae, Goyang-si (KR); and GyeongHyeon Bae, Seoul (KR)
Filed by CORELINE SOFT CO, LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/076,513.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0173370 (KR), filed on Dec. 7, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0118113 (KR), filed on Sep. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0172451 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 5/0033 (2013.01) [A61B 5/02007 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A medical image diagnosis assistance apparatus for assisting a diagnosis of a medical image, the medical image diagnosis assistance apparatus comprising a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises:
a communication interface configured to receive a medical image acquired for an anatomical structure inside a human body; and
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
obtain a size of a first lumen including an area surrounded by an intima in each of a plurality of aortic zones and first information for each of the plurality of aortic zones based on results of segmentation of an aorta in the medical image and results of segmentation of the plurality of aortic zones within the aorta segmented along with a total length of the aorta; and
visualize the size of the first lumen based on a size of a first visualization representation in each of the plurality of aortic zones; and
visualize the first information based on a size of a second visualization representation in each of the plurality of aortic zones,
wherein a ratio between the size of the first lumen and the first information is visualized based on a ratio between the size of the first visualization representation and the size of the second visualization representation in each of the plurality of aortic zones.