Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system includes a processor circuit in communication with an ultrasound transducer configured to receive three-dimensional ultrasound data of an anatomy, and generate a target image corresponding to a target image plane of the anatomy, and a plurality of adjacent images corresponding to image planes adjacent to the target image plane along a simulated motion path. The processor circuit is further configured to display the target image, receive a user input representative of a direction of motion along the simulated motion path, and display an adjacent image of the plurality of adjacent images corresponding to the direction of motion. Accordingly, the user can observe the target image in its spatial context by scanning through the target image and one or more adjacent images on the display as if the ultrasound transducer were being scanned along the simulated motion path.

Abstract: Presented are concepts for adapting a first, pre-defined mesh topology representing an organ to a second, different mesh topology of the organ. One such concept includes identifying correspondence between the first and second mesh topologies based on spectral matching of the first and second mesh topologies. The first, predefined mesh topology is aligned with the second mesh topology based on the identified correspondence between the first and second mesh topologies.

Abstract: A system for recording ultrasound images comprises a memory comprising instruction data representing a set of instructions and a processor configured to communicate with the memory and to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a data stream of two dimensional images taken using an ultrasound transducer and determine from the data stream that a feature of interest is in view of the transducer. The set of instructions further cause the processor to trigger an alert to be sent to a user to indicate that the feature of interest is in view of the transducer, and send an instruction to the transducer to trigger the transducer to capture a three dimensional ultrasound image after a predetermined time interval.

Abstract: The invention relates to a regions identifying apparatus (1) for identifying regions in an image like a computed tomography image showing a brain. A model providing unit (6) provides a three-dimensional model of a head of a living being, wherein the three-dimensional model includes Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) regions of a brain, and a regions identifying unit (7) identifies ASPECTS regions in the three-dimensional image by applying the three-dimensional model to the three-dimensional image. This allows for an accurate, automatic identification of the ASPECTS regions independently of the orientation of the head in an imaging system, independently of an image slice thickness and also independently of a respective user like a physician. This leads to imaging an improved accuracy of determining the ASPECTS regions which allows for an improved quantification of ischemic changes in the brain after stroke. This in turn also allows for an improved treatment recommendation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical image data processing system (101) for image segmentation. The medical image data processing system (101) comprises a processor (130) for controlling the medical image data processing system (101), wherein execution of the machine executable instructions by the processor (130) causes the processor (130) to control the image data processing system (101) to: —receive medical image data (140), —generate a segmentation of an anatomical structure of interest comprised by the medical image data (140), —convert the segmentation to a surface mesh representation of the anatomical structure of interest, —compare the surface mesh representation with the reference surface mesh representation of the anatomical reference structure using spectral matching, wherein one or more spectral embeddings of the two meshes are matched, —providing an area of topological mismatch of C the surface mesh representation with the reference surface mesh representation.