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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2018
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, KR;
KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for fully automatically segmenting a joint based on a patient-specific optimal thresholding method and a watershed algorithm. The method of fully automatically segmenting an image may include the steps of extracting region information corresponding to a target object to be segmented from a medical image of the target object by associating a thresholding method and a load path algorithm, generating a first mask MASKbased on the extracted region information, generating a morphological patch by performing morphological subdivision on the medical image based on a watershed algorithm, generating a second mask MASKbased on the generated morphological patch, and segmenting an image corresponding to the target object from the medical image based on the first mask and the second mask.