Patent Document ID: 9324150
Application ID: 14414635
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for planning cardiac MRI views, said system comprising: at least one processor programmed to: utilize an mDixon protocol scan sequence; receive one or more images including an object of interest acquired from the mDIXON protocol scan sequence wherein the one or more received images include a water image and a fat image of the object of interest; determine a position and orientation of the object of interest from the one or more images including identify edges of the object of interest by detecting transitions in gradient magnitude in the received one or more images, wherein the transitions provide a segmentation of the object of interest which is refined with non-maximum suppression; match a model of the object of interest to the position and orientation of the object of interest; generate one or more views of the object of interest from the matching of the object of interest; and display the one or more views of the object of interest on a display device.