Patent ID: 8849016
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for forming a panoramic image from a computed tomography image volume, comprising: acquiring image data elements for one or more computed tomographic volume images of a subject; identifying a subset of the acquired computed tomographic images that include one or more high density features of interest; defining, from the subset of the acquired computed tomographic images, a sub-volume having a curved shape that includes one or more of the high density features of interest; defining a set of unfold lines wherein each unfold line extends at least between two curved surfaces of the curved shape sub-volume; re-aligning the image data elements within the curved shape sub-volume according to a re-alignment of the set of unfold lines to form a unfolded curved sub-volume; and displaying one or more views of the unfolded curved sub-volume.