US 12,488,876 B2
Ease of image annotation via curved planar reformation
Faycal El Hanchi El Amrani, Paris (FR); Bassam Abdallah, Versailles (FR); Etienne Perot, Versailles (FR); Caroline Clélia My-Linh Dam Hieu, Paris (FR); Luc Caselles, Orsay (FR); and Nicolas Gogin, Chatenay-Malabry (FR)
Assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Waukesha, WI (US)
Filed by GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/157,296.
Prior Publication US 2024/0249825 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 7/66 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 30/40 (2018.01) [G06T 7/66 (2017.01); G06T 15/00 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30172 (2013.01); G06T 2215/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a memory configured to store computer-executable components; and
a processor that executes at least one of the computer-executable components that:
accesses a first three-dimensional medical image depicting an original version of a tubular anatomical structure having a centerline along a radial center of a tubular core of the tubular anatomical structure that follows a non-linear three-dimensional path;
generates a second three-dimensional medical image, by straightening the first three-dimensional medical image about the centerline, such that the second three-dimensional medical image depicts a straightened version of the tubular anatomical structure having the centerline that follows a linear three-dimensional path;
generates a third three-dimensional medical image, by inserting an annotation received via user input into the second three-dimensional medical image, such that the third three-dimensional medical image depicts the annotation and the straightened version of the tubular anatomical structure; and
generates a fourth three-dimensional medical image, by un-straightening the third three-dimensional medical image about the centerline of the tubular anatomical structure, such that the fourth three-dimensional medical image depicts both the original version of the tubular anatomical structure having the centerline that follows the non-linear three-dimensional path and an un-straightened version of the annotation that has been generated based on a transformation of the centerline of the straightened version of the tubular anatomical structure from the linear three-dimensional path to the non-linear three-dimensional path.