Patent ID: 8540635
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a border for a region of interest, the method comprising: acquiring data from a medical scan for later generation of an image; determining a region of interest for the image, the region of interest having a border with a width, providing a border area; allocating, by a processor, display values to a plurality of pixels, respectively, based on color or tissue information from the data from the medical scan, the allocating comprising assigning red, green, and blue (RGB) or luminance and chrominance (YUV) values for the data from the scan prior to displaying the image, the plurality of pixels including pixels within and outside of the region of interest; where at least one pixel corresponds to the border of the region of interest to be shown on the image, allocating a border value to the at least one pixel substantially at the same time as allocating the display value based on the color or tissue information; and displaying the image having the border of the region of interest, the border in the image being a function of the border value without a software overlay and having the width visually separating the pixels outside of the region of interest from the pixels within the border of the region of interest, the pixels within the border and the pixels outside of the region of interest representing the color or tissue information of the data from the scan.