Patent ID: 11908047
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus comprising:
means for receiving an input medical image in a first modality;
means for generating a synthetic image in a second modality from the input medical image;
means for upsampling the synthetic image to increase a resolution of the synthetic image;
means for generating an output image to simulate image processing of the upsampled synthetic image; and
means for outputting the output image,
wherein:
the input medical image comprises annotations,
the means for generating a synthetic image in a second modality from the input medical image comprises means for translating the annotations to correspond to the synthetic image, and
the means for upsampling the synthetic image to increase a resolution of the synthetic image comprises means for resampling the translated annotations to the resolution of the upsampled synthetic image.