US 7,602,953 B2
Method for acquisition, analysis and representation of a medical image data set
Sultan Haider, Erlangen (Germany); and Axel Schreiber, Erlangen (Germany)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany)
Filed on Jun. 07, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/449,531.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 026 220 (DE), filed on Jun. 07, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0285734 A1, Dec. 21, 2006
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 382—128  [706/2; 706/3; 706/4; 382/130; 382/131; 715/214; 715/275] 20 Claims
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1. A method for operating on a medical image data set, comprising the steps of:
acquiring a medical image data set of an examination region of a subject by interaction with the subject using a medical imaging apparatus;
from a data processing device in which a display specification, describing an orientation for a graphical representation of said image data set, is electronically stored, retrieving said display specification;
in the data processing device, automatically electronically checking said image data set with respect to said display specification, to obtain a check result; and
automatically electronically adapting said image data set as needed to conform said image data set to said display specification dependent on said check result, and visually displaying at least a part of said image data set at a display device with the graphical representation described by said display specification.