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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2018
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); G06T 5/30 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00369 (2013.01); A61N 5/1049 (2013.01); G06T 5/30 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/136 (2017.01); A61N 2005/1061 (2013.01); G06K 2209/05 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing a radiotherapy CT positioning image, comprising: defining a pixel having a CT value greater than or equal to a first threshold in an original CT image as a human body pixel; counting a number of human body pixels of each pixel row in the original CT image in an order from top to bottom; and determining a boundary of the human body according to the counting result.