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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of processing a medical image to remove one or more portions of the image corresponding to bone structures, the method comprising: receiving first image data representing a first, three-dimensional, medical image; processing the first image data to generate second image data representing a plurality of two-dimensional image channels each corresponding to a different slice of the first medical image; receiving the second image data at a neural network system; applying an attention mechanism at the neural network system to the second image data to generate an attention map representing one or more regions of interest; and determining, at least partly on the basis of the attention map, that one or more portions of the second image data represent a bone structure.