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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2018
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Dong Yang, Somerset, NJ (US);
Daguang Xu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Bogdan Georgescu, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Mingqing Chen, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automated liver segmentation in a 3D medical image of a patient is disclosed. A 3D medical image, such as a 3D computed tomography (CT) volume, of a patient is received. The 3D medical image of the patient is input to a trained deep image-to-image network. The trained deep image-to-image network is trained in an adversarial network together with a discriminative network that distinguishes between predicted liver segmentation masks generated by the deep image-to-image network from input training volumes and ground truth liver segmentation masks. A liver segmentation mask defining a segmented liver region in the 3D medical image of the patient is generated using the trained deep image-to-image network.