US 11,810,290 B2
Method and computer system for generating a combined tissue-vessel representation
Thomas Flohr, Uehlfeld (DE); Bernhard Schmidt, Fuerth (DE); Grzegorz Soza, Heroldsberg (DE); and Michael Suehling, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Dec. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/710,151.
Claims priority of application No. 18214023 (EP), filed on Dec. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0202522 A1, Jun. 25, 2020
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G06T 7/97 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20212 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method performed by a computer system for generating a combined tissue-vessel representation, comprising:
generating a tissue representation based on imaging data of a tissue, the tissue representation including a planar polar plot of the tissue;
generating a vessel representation based on imaging data of a vessel, each of the tissue representation and the vessel representation including color-encoded quantitative information, the color-encoded quantitative information of the tissue representation color-encoding a plurality of values indicating a ventricle wall thickening of the tissue, the plurality of values indicating the ventricle wall thickening corresponding to respective first positions across the tissue, and the color-encoded quantitative information of the vessel representation color-encoding a value indicating a plaque composition of the vessel;
generating a combined tissue-vessel representation in which the vessel representation is overlaid over the tissue representation, the vessel representation including a projection of the vessel onto a reference plane, and the reference plane being in-plane with the planar polar plot of the tissue; and
displaying the combined tissue-vessel representation.