Patent ID: 7715609
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically determining position and orientation of at least a left ventricle in 3D image data records of a heart, the method comprising: preparing, with the aid of a computed tomography unit, a 3D image data record of the heart; coarsely segmenting at least the left ventricle with the aid of an image processing algorithm in the 3D image data record, and determining a long main axis of the left ventricle from the segmented image data; detecting end points of a boundary line of the septum, starting from the long main axis with radial search beams, starting from the long main axis; and determining the position and orientation of the left ventricle on the basis of the segmented image data, the long main axis and the end point; wherein