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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2015
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Takao Goto, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G01R 33/565 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/5608 (2013.01); G01R 33/56509 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30056 (2013.01);
Abstract
The MR apparatuscomprises: image producing unitfor producing coronal images of a part to be imaged; search-region defining unitfor defining a region Rsto be searched; unit for determining an indicator VI representing a likelihood that a pixel contained in the region Rsto be searched lies on an edge E of a liver adjacent to lungs; and unit for, by dividing the region Rsto be searched into a plurality of sub-regions R-Rarranged in an SI-direction, determining a position of the edge E of the liver in the SI-direction based on indicators VI obtained on a sub-region-by-sub-region basis.