Ping an Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Zhuotun Zhu

Le Lu

Adam Patrick Harrison

Dakai Jin

Dazhou Guo

Jinzheng Cai

Ke P Yan

A method for performing a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) includes: acquiring a medical image set; generating a three-dimensional (3D) tumor distance map corresponding to the medical image set, each voxel of the tumor distance map representing a distance from the voxel to a nearest boundary of a primary tumor present in the medical image set; and performing neural-network processing of the medical image set to generate a predicted probability map to predict presence and locations of oncology significant lymph nodes (OSLNs) in the medical image set, wherein voxels in the medical image set are stratified and processed according to the tumor distance map.

Device and method for detecting clinically important objects in medical images with distance-based decision stratification

A method and device for stratified image segmentation are provided. The method includes: obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) image data set representative of a region comprising at least three levels of objects; generating a first segmentation result indicating boundaries of anchor-level objects in the region based on a first neural network (NN) model corresponding to the anchor-level objects; generating a second segmentation result indicating boundaries of mid-level objects in the region based on the first segmentation result and a second NN model corresponding to the mid-level objects; and generating a third segmentation result indicating small-level objects in the region based on the first segmentation result, a third NN model corresponding to the small-level objects, and cropped regions corresponding to the small-level objects.

Method and device for stratified image segmentation

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Zhuotun Zhu