Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Mario Joao Fartaria De Oliveira

Tobias Kober

Benedicte Marechal

Cristina Granziera

Meritxell Bach Cuadra

A system and a method monitor a biological process. The method includes obtaining an abnormal tissue mask from an abnormal tissue segmentation of an image of an object containing tissue to be analyzed, the image being acquired at a time tbeing a reference time point. Other images of the object are registered onto the abnormal tissue mask, the other images being acquired at other time points. Image contrasts of the other images are normalized with respect to the contrasts of the image acquired at the reference time point. The normalized images are subtracted for each available contrast in order to obtain difference images. A joint difference image is created by summing the previously obtained difference images. A biological process progression map is created by overlapping the abnormal tissue mask obtained and the joint difference image after applying a pre-defined threshold.

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Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland

Mario Joao Fartaria De Oliveira