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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2017
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Mingqing Chen, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Tae Soo Kim, Baltimore, MD (US);
Jan Kretschmer, Nürnberg, DE;
Sebastian Seifert, Erlangen, DE;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Max Schöbinger, Hirschaid, DE;
David Liu, Plano, TX (US);
Zhoubing Xu, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Sasa Grbic, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
He Zhang, Edison, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for deep learning based automatic bone removal in medical images, such as computed tomography angiography (CTA) volumes, is disclosed. Bone structures are segmented in a 3D medical image of a patient by classifying voxels of the 3D medical image as bone or non-bone voxels using a deep neural network trained for bone segmentation. A 3D visualization of non-bone structures in the 3D medical image is generated by removing voxels classified as bone voxels from a 3D visualization of the 3D medical image.