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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2016
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Mayur Patel, Nashville, TN (US);
Patrick Kelly, Nashville, TN (US);
Miya Smith, Nashville, TN (US);
Andrew Plassard, Nashville, TN (US);
Bennett Landman, Brentwood, TN (US);
Richard G. Abramsom, Nashville, TN (US);
Zhoubing Xu, Nashville, TN (US);
Benjamin K. Poulose, Nashville, TN (US);
Rebeccah B. Baucom, Brentwood, TN (US);
Andrew Joseph Asman, Berkeley, CA (US);
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for segmenting tissue within a computed tomography (CT) scan of a region of interest into one of a plurality of tissue classes. A plurality of atlases are registered to the CT scan to produce a plurality of registered atlases. A context model representing respective likelihoods that each voxel of the CT scan is a member of each of the plurality of tissue classes is determined from the CT scan and a set of associated training data. A proper subset of the plurality of registered atlases is selected according to the context model and the registered atlases. The selected proper subset of registered atlases are fused to produce a combined segmentation.