Patent ID: 9629599
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06T

Claim:
1. A method of assigning first localization data of a breast of a patient derived from first image data of the breast, the first image data being a result of a first radiological data acquisition process, to second localization data of the same breast derived from second image data, the second image data being a result of a second radiological data acquisition process, or vice versa, which comprises the step of: assigning the first localization data to the second localization data by intermediately mapping them into breast model data representing a patient-specific breast shape of the patient and then onto the second image data—or vice versa, thereby deriving assignment data; and performing the first radiological data acquisition process and the second radiological data acquisition process by scanning the breast in a compressed state; wherein the breast model data represent a breast model of the breast in an uncompressed state; and wherein the first image data resulting from the first radiological data acquisition process and the second image data resulting from second radiological data acquisition process are obtained from the same image data acquisition unit.