Patent Document ID: 9008405
Application ID: 14484112
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. 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 global image properties 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 local image characteristics of the selected one of the received images, where the one or more local 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, either a global quality assessment of the received images or a local quality assessment of the selected one of the received images, based on one or both of the one or more image properties or the one or more local image characteristics.