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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/501 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06K 2009/4666 (2013.01); G06K 2209/055 (2013.01);
Abstract
There provides an apparatus for recognizing a head region in a CT lateral image of a subject, comprising: a deriving unit for deriving a first image representing a bone of the subject from the CT lateral image; an extracting unit for extracting a boundary curve indicating an outer contour of a region comprising at least part of the occipital bone and at least part of the cervical vertebra of the subject in the first image; and a determining unit for determining a first pixel position indicating a bottommost point of the head region of the subject, based on a shape feature parameter of the boundary curve.