SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE INTEGRATING FUNCTIONAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL IMAGES

• US 20130182929A1
• Filed: 01/16/2013
• Published: 07/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Emory University, Georgia Tech Research Corporation (University System of Georgia)
• Original Assignee: Emory University, Georgia Tech Research Corporation (University System of Georgia)
• Inventors: Oshinski, John N., Suever, Jonathan D., Lloyd, Michael S., Leon, Angel R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,858,687 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/131
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/374 NMR or MRI
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/367 Electrophysiological study [EPS], e.g. electrical activation mapping or electro-anatomical mapping
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/56325 Cine imaging
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/005 Specific pre-processing for tomographic reconstruction, e.g. calibration, source positioning, rebinning, scatter correction, retrospective gating
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10072 Tomographic images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10088 Magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10096 Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging [DCE-MRI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20221 Image fusion; Image merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30048 Heart; Cardiac
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/14 Transformations for image registration, e.g. adjusting or mapping for alignment of images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/33 using feature-based methods

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer-readable storage mediums relate to generating an image that includes functional, anatomical, and physiological images. The generated image may be an integrated image based on the functional image on which the anatomical and physiological images are mapped. The generated image may indicate more than one location of optimal lead placement. The generated image may be useful in pre-planning cardiac intervention procedures.

Claims

1. A method for generating an image including functional, anatomical, and physiological images of a heart of a patient, comprising:

processing a plurality of sets of image data of a heart, each set being different; and

generating an image of the heart, the image including functional, anatomical, and physiological images.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the image data includes a plurality of sets of magnetic resonance (MR) image data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the image data includes cine image data and contrast image data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the functional image is generated from the cine image data, and the anatomical and physiological images are generated from the post-contrast image data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing includes processing the image data to generate the functional, anatomical and physiological images.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing includes:

processing a first set of the image data to generate the functional images;

processing a second set of the image data to generate the anatomical image; and

processing a third set of the image data to generate the anatomical image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first portion may include cine image data and the second and third portions may include contrast data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the functional image includes contraction timing, the physiological image includes regional scar distribution and the anatomical image includes coronary veins.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated image is based on the functional image on which the anatomical and physiological images are mapped.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the generated image is an integrated image that includes the functional, anatomical, and physiological images, and the generated image is based on the functional image on which the anatomical and physiological images overlap.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated image indicates more than one location of optimal lead placement.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a position of an interventional device on the generated image.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the image data includes functional, anatomical, and physiological images.

14. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for generating functional, physiological and anatomical images of a heart of a patient, the instructions comprising:

processing a plurality of sets of image data of a heart, each set of image data being different; and

generating an image of a heart, the image including the functional, anatomical, and physiological images.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the image data includes a plurality of sets of magnetic resonance (MR) image data.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the image data includes cine image data and contrast image data.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the processing includes processing the image data to generate the functional, anatomical and physiological images.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the generated image indicates more than one location of optimal lead placement.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the generated image is based on the functional image on which the anatomical and physiological images are mapped.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the functional image includes contraction timing, the physiological image includes regional scar distribution and the anatomical image includes coronary veins.