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Reporting imaged portions of a patient's body part

  • US 8,965,062 B2
  • Filed: 09/16/2011
  • Issued: 02/24/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • (a) receiving, in a receiver circuit, at least two reference images of a patient body part, each reference image of the at least two reference images including a respective landmark subsurface feature of the patient body part (hereafter “

    imaged landmark subsurface feature”

    ), each imaged landmark subsurface feature having a respective spatial relationship to a respective region of a surface of the patient body part imaged during a medical examination (hereafter “

    imaged region”

    );

    (b) determining, in a feature matching circuit, a correspondence between(x) each atlas landmark subsurface feature of the patient body part of at least two atlas landmark subsurface features of the patient body part included in a landmark subsurface feature atlas of the patient body part and(y) each respective imaged landmark subsurface feature of the patient body part included in the at least two reference images;

    (c) generating, in a reporting circuit, informational data reporting a depiction of an area of the surface of the patient body part by at least two adjacent imaged regions, the informational data at least partially based on the determined correspondence; and

    (d) outputting, with a communication circuit, the informational data including, transforming the informational data into a particular visual depiction of a location of an un-imaged region of the surface of the patient body part relative to a larger portion of the surface of the patient body part, and outputting the transformed informational data.

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