Patent ID: 9099015
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G06T,G09B

Abstract:
1. A procedure for operating an imaging system to perform pre-operating assessment of one or more anatomical structures generated from medical images and provided in a rendered 3D space, comprising: forming one or more safety margin indicators in the rendered 3D space, in response to input information provided by a user via a user input interface, each defining a 3D closed-volume shape that is deformable and adjustable to conform to a predetermined shape of a respective one of the anatomical structures within an organ and being spaced around the respective one of the anatomical structures in the rendered 3D space by a predetermined safety margin distance from the respective one of the anatomical structures; deforming the 3D closed-volume shape and the predetermined safety margin distance of at least one of the safety margin indicators in the rendered 3D space by operation of graphical handlers of the user input interface; and immediately providing, in a user-perceptible output interface of the imaging system, a rendering in the 3D space of a manipulated version of the at least one safety margin indicator, wherein at least one foregoing step of the procedure is performed by a computer processor operating under control of a computer program stored on non-transitory computer-readable media.