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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2019
Springbok, Inc., Charlottesville, VA (US);
Xue Feng, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Renkun Ni, College Park, MD (US);
Anudeep Konda, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Silvia S. Blemker, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Joseph M. Hart, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Craig H. Meyer, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Springbok, Inc., Charlottesville, VA (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for automatic muscle segmentation are provided. The method includes receiving a high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) image obtained by a magnetic resonance imaging (MM) system and splitting the high-resolution 3D image into high-resolution 3D sub-images. Furthermore, the method includes acquiring low-resolution 3D sub-images of the high-resolution 3D sub-images and determining a boundary box within each corresponding low-resolution 3D sub-image. Moreover, the method includes determining a crop box for each boundary box, cropping each high-resolution 3D sub-image based on its corresponding crop box, and segmenting at least one muscle from the cropped box high-resolution 3D sub-image.