US Patent 11908174 Methods and systems for image selection

Various methods and systems are provided for automatically classifying a plurality of image slices using body region bounding boxes identified from a localizer image. In one embodiment, a localizer image may be mapped to a plurality of bounding boxes, corresponding to a plurality of body regions, using a trained machine learning model. Coordinates of the plurality of bounding boxes may be used to determine body region boundaries, such that the body regions are non-intersecting and coherent. The body regions identified in the localizer image may then be correlated to image slice ranges, and image slices within each image slice range may be labeled as belonging to the corresponding body region.