Patent Document ID: 8218849
Application ID: 12549461

Base Claim:
1. A method for detecting anatomic landmarks of a left ventricle (LV) in a magnetic resonance (MR) long axis image slice, comprising: detecting a plurality of apex candidates in the MR long axis image slice using a trained apex detector; detecting a plurality of base plane candidates in the MR long axis image slice using a trained base plane detector; generating a joint context for each apex-base plane candidate pair; and determining a best apex-base plane candidate pair based on the generated joint context using a trained joint context detector.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of generating a joint context for each apex-base plane candidate pair comprises, for each apex-base plane candidate pair: mapping parameters of the apex candidate and parameters of the base plane candidate using a mapping function to determine parameters of the joint context.