US 12,471,883 B2
Appearance control for medical images
Nikhil Sreedhar Rajguru, San Diego, CA (US); and Vladimir Zagrodsky, El Dorado Hills, CA (US)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/027,496
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Sep. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/075260
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 21, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/063641, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 31, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/082,498, filed on Sep. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0371928 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 8/467 (2013.01) [A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/465 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intravascular imaging system, comprising:
a processor circuit configured for communication with an intravascular imaging catheter positioned inside a blood vessel of a patient, wherein the processor circuit is configured to:
receive intravascular image data from the intravascular imaging catheter;
output, to a display in communication with the processor circuit, a screen display comprising:
an intravascular image generated based on the image data and comprising a first visual appearance; and
a user control movable to a plurality of control positions, wherein the plurality of control positions comprises:
a first control position associated with the first visual appearance; and
a second control position associated with a second visual appearance,
wherein the user control is positioned at the first control position;
receive a control input moving the user control from the first control position to the second control position such that the control input is associated with simultaneously changing at least two image settings;
generate, in response to the user control being positioned at the second control position, an updated intravascular image based on the image data and comprising the second visual appearance; and
update the screen display to display the updated intravascular image.