Patent ID: 11903691
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 13:
14. An article of manufacture for automatically aligning MR scans for diagnostic scan planning, the article of manufacture comprising a computer-readable, non-transitory medium holding computer-executable instructions for performing a method comprising:
identifying one or more initial landmarks that include at least one ligament in a 3D localizer image of an elbow using a landmarking engine;
identifying a main axis associated with the elbow based on the one or more initial landmarks, the main axis extending through the one or more initial landmarks;
re-orienting the 3D localizer image to a standard viewing position of the elbow based on the main axis to yield a re-oriented 3D localizer image;
applying the landmarking engine to the re-oriented 3D localizer image to yield one or more updated landmarks; and
computing a plurality of reference points for performing an MR scan based on the one or more updated landmarks.