Patent attributes
A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for interactive 3D visualization of ultrasound images of a supraspinatus tendon injury. Ultrasound images are acquired of a region in which the supraspinatus tendon injury is suspected. The ultrasound images are preprocessed, and energy of the preprocessed ultrasound images is minimized. A set of supraspinatus tendon images are extracted from low energy preprocessed ultrasound images. A morphological operation is performed on the set of supraspinatus tendon images to generate a smoothed set of supraspinatus tendon images. A binary mask is applied to the smoothed set of supraspinatus tendon images to detect boundary points of the supraspinatus tendon and generate a set of segmented image frames. The set of segmented image frames are arranged based on spatial position of each segmented image frame with respect to the supraspinatus tendon. A 3D representation of the supraspinatus tendon is reconstructed and rendered on a display.
