Patent ID: 8824752

Claim:
A method for assessing the quality of medical images of at least a portion of a patient's anatomy, using a computer system, the method comprising: receiving one or more images of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; determining, using a processor of the computer system, one or more image properties of the received images, wherein the one or more image properties define either an entirety of one of the received images or a plurality of the received images; performing, using a processor of the computer system, anatomic localization or modeling of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy based on the received images; obtaining, for a selected one of the received images, an identification of one or more image characteristics of the selected one of the received images, where the one or more image characteristics are associated with an anatomic feature of the patient's anatomy based on the anatomic localization or modeling; and calculating, using a processor of the computer system, an image quality score for the selected one of the received images based on the one or more image properties and the one or more image characteristics of the selected one of the received images.