Patent ID: 7864994
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to manage structure architecture comprising: a workflow system operable to receive a plurality of medical images and at least one user input from an external source; a plurality of structures on a reference image, each structure being a related manifest of the same anatomical region or organ at different modalities or phases; a linked status to each structure; and at least one link between the first structure on the reference image and the structure on the second image relating to the same anatomical region or organ as the first structure relates, wherein the structure architecture is operable for multi-modality and multi-phase structure handling, and wherein the multi-modality is supported in which one image has a unique role as the reference image, an image having any kind of modality can be selected as the reference image, a user contours anatomical regions on the reference image and the contours are transferred to other fused images.