Patent ID: 8861820

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; 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, a plurality of image characteristics of the selected one of the received images using the processor of the computer system, wherein the plurality of image characteristics include two or more different types of image characteristics and each of the plurality of image characteristics is associated with an anatomic feature of the patient's anatomy based on the anatomic localization or modeling; and calculating, using the processor of the computer system, an image quality score for the selected one of the received images based on the plurality of image characteristics of the selected one of the received images.