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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2018
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a segmentation system for segmenting an object in an image. The segmentation system is configured to place a surface model comprising surface elements within the image, to determine for each surface element a respective sub volume () of the image and to use a neural network () for determining respective distances between the surface elements and the boundary of the object in the image based on the determined subvolumes. The surface model is then adapted in accordance with the determined distances, in order to segment the object. This segmentation, which is based on the subvolumes of the image and the neural network, is improved in comparison to known techniques which rely, () for instance, on a sampling of candidate points along lines being perpendicular to the respective surface element and on a determination of likelihoods for the candidate points that they indicate a boundary of the object.