Patent ID: 9275452
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: storing on a computer readable memory, first data that indicates predetermined criteria for scan data to be compliant with a protocol to cover an organ of interest with correct intravenous contrast agent; obtaining, using one or more computer processors, a cross sectional imaging scan including one or more series of cross sectional images previously collected for a subject; determining, using one or more computer processors, one or more body volumes covered by the cross sectional imaging scan, wherein each of the one or more body volumes covers a continuous region along a body axis of the subject; for each of the determined one or more body volumes, locating, using one or more computer processors, a presence of at least a portion of one or more internal organs of the subject encompassed in a corresponding determined volume; and verifying, using one or more computer processors, whether the cross sectional imaging scan is compliant with the protocol based on the first data and based on the portion of one or more internal organs of the subject encompassed in the corresponding determined body volume.