IP Library Granted Patent US 12,579,650
Granted Patent B2
US 12,579,650 · App. 18/501,375 · Granted Mar 17, 2026

Spinal hardware rendering

Inventors: Adèle Marie Cécile Courot (Paris, FR); Nicolas Gogin (Chatenay Malabry, FR); Heber Hernandez (Salt Lake City, UT); Quang Minh Nguyen (Paris, FR)
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
G06T7/0014G16H30/20
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Patent No.
US 12,579,650
App. No.
18/501,375
Granted
Mar 17, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems/techniques that facilitate improved spinal hardware rendering are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a medical imaging voxel array depicting a spine of a medical patient. In various aspects, the system can determine whether the medical imaging voxel array depicts a set of surgical hardware inserted in the spine of the medical patient. In various instances, the system can, in response to a determination that the medical imaging voxel array depicts the set of surgical hardware, localize a surface that sagittally bisects the spine of the medical patient. In various cases, the system can render, on an electronic display, a butterfly-view of the medical imaging voxel array, wherein the butterfly-view can be hinged about the localized surface.

Claims (18)

1 . A system, comprising: a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in a non-transitory computer-readable memory, the computer-executable components comprising: an access component that accesses a medical imaging voxel array depicting a spine of a medical patient; a hardware component that determines whether the medical imaging voxel array depicts a set of surgical hardware inserted in the spine of the medical patient; a surface component that, in response to a determination that the medical imaging voxel array depicts the set of surgical hardware, localizes a surface that sagittally bisects the spine of the medical patient; and a visualization component that renders, on an electronic display, a butterfly-view of the medical imaging voxel array, wherein the butterfly-view is hinged about the localized surface, wherein the butterfly-view comprises a left pane and a right pane, wherein the left pane depicts voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are leftward of the localized surface and that depicts no voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are rightward of the localized surface, and wherein the right pane depicts voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are rightward of the localized surface and that depicts no voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are leftward of the localized surface.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the visualization component renders the butterfly-view via a maximum intensity projection technique or a transparent volume-rendering technique.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the localized surface is a sagittal plane of the medical patient.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the localized surface is a curved surface.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein, in response to at least one of the set of surgical hardware being clicked in the butterfly-view, the visualization component renders, on the electronic display, an additional viewport of the at least one of the set of surgical hardware.

6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the additional viewport depicts a zoomed axial view, a zoomed longitudinal view, or a zoomed oblique view of the at least one of the set of surgical hardware.

7 . A computer-implemented method, comprising: accessing, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, a medical imaging voxel array depicting a spine of a medical patient; determining, by the device, whether the medical imaging voxel array depicts a set of surgical hardware inserted in the spine of the medical patient; localizing, by the device and in response to a determination that the medical imaging voxel array depicts the set of surgical hardware, a surface that sagittally bisects the spine of the medical patient; and rendering, by the device and on an electronic display, a butterfly-view of the medical imaging voxel array, wherein the butterfly-view is hinged about the localized surface, wherein the butterfly-view comprises a left pane and a right pane, wherein the left pane depicts voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are leftward of the localized surface and that depicts no voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are rightward of the localized surface, and wherein the right pane depicts voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are rightward of the localized surface and that depicts no voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are leftward of the localized surface.

8 . The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the butterfly-view is rendered via a maximum intensity projection technique or a transparent volume-rendering technique.

9 . The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the localized surface is a sagittal plane of the medical patient.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the localized surface is a curved surface.

11 . The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , further comprising:

rendering, by the device, on the electronic display, and in response to at least one of the set of surgical hardware being clicked in the butterfly-view, an additional viewport of the at least one of the set of surgical hardware.

12 . The computer-implemented method of claim 11 , wherein the additional viewport depicts a zoomed axial view, a zoomed longitudinal view, or a zoomed oblique view of the at least one of the set of surgical hardware.

13 . A computer program product for facilitating improved spinal hardware rendering, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable memory having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to: access a medical imaging voxel array depicting a spine of a medical patient; determine whether the medical imaging voxel array depicts a set of surgical hardware inserted in the spine of the medical patient; localize, in response to a determination that the medical imaging voxel array depicts the set of surgical hardware, a surface that sagittally bisects the spine of the medical patient; and render, on an electronic display, a butterfly-view of the medical imaging voxel array, wherein the butterfly-view is hinged about the localized surface, wherein the butterfly-view comprises a left pane and a right pane, wherein the left pane depicts voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are leftward of the localized surface and that depicts no voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are rightward of the localized surface, and wherein the right pane depicts voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are rightward of the localized surface and that depicts no voxels of the medical imaging voxel array that are leftward of the localized surface.

14 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the processor renders the butterfly-view via a maximum intensity projection technique or a transparent volume-rendering technique.

15 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the localized surface is a sagittal plane of the medical patient.

16 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the localized surface is a curved surface.

17 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the processor localizes the surgical hardware via a segmentation mask, one or more bounding boxes, or one or more centroidal points.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2023
From: COUROT, ADÈLE MARIE CÉCILE; GOGIN, NICOLAS; HERNANDEZ, HEBER; NGUYEN, QUANG MINH
To: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Reel/Frame 065450/0447 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63384290 · Nov 18, 2022
Related Publication 20240169538A1 · May 23, 2024
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