Patent ID: 7873194

Claim:
A system for automatically performing a triple rule-out procedure using imaging data, the system comprising: an imaging apparatus configured to generate imaging data including a heart region, a pulmonary artery region, and an aorta region of a patient; and a processor operably coupled to the imaging apparatus to receive the generated imaging data, the processor configured to: (a) identify the heart region from the generated imaging data; (b) analyze the identified heart region to detect a coronary pathology; (c) identify an aorta object from the aorta region of the imaging data; (d) analyze the identified aorta object to detect an aortic dissection; (e) identify a pulmonary artery object from the pulmonary artery region of the imaging data; (f) analyze the identified pulmonary artery object to detect a pulmonary embolism; (g) generate a report including any detected coronary pathology, any detected aortic dissection, and any detected pulmonary embolism; (h) identify an abdominal aorta object from the aorta region of the imaging data and (i) identify an ascending aorta object from the aorta region of the imaging data and to model the identified ascending aorta object to define a normal form and to identify a location of a deviation between the defined normal form and the identified ascending aorta object.