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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2018
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Lucian Mihai Itu, Brasov, RO;
Laszlo Lazar, Gheorgheni, RO;
Siqi Liu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Olivier Pauly, Munich, DE;
Philipp Seegerer, Fuerstenzell, DE;
Iulian Ionut Stroia, Brasov, RO;
Alexandru Turcea, Busteni, RO;
Anamaria Vizitiu, Sfantu Gheorghe, RO;
Daguang Xu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium are for segmenting different types of structures, including cancerous lesions and regular structures like vessels and skin, in a digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) volume. In an embodiment, the method includes: pre-classification of the DBT volume in dense and fatty tissue and based on the result; localizing a set of structures in the DBT volume by using a multi-stream deep convolutional neural network; and segmenting the localized structures by calculating a probability for belonging to a specific type of structure for each voxel in the DBT volume by using a deep convolutional neural network for providing a three-dimensional probabilistic map.