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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Parmeet Singh Bhatia, Paoli, PA (US);
Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez, West Chester, PA (US);
Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Downingtown, PA (US);
Ke Zeng, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method and for quantifying a three-dimensional medical image volume are provided. An embodiment of the method includes: providing a two-dimensional representation image based on the medical image volume; defining a region of interest in the two-dimensional representation image; generating a feature signature for the region of interest; defining a plurality of two-dimensional image patches in the medical image volume; calculating, for each of the image patches, a degree of similarity between the region of interest and the respective image patch on the basis of the feature signature; visualizing the degrees of similarities.