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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2018
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Louisville, KY (US);
Science and Technology Development Fund, Cairo, EG;
Ayman S. El-Baz, Louisville, KY (US);
Ahmed Soliman, Louisville, KY (US);
Moumen El-Melegy, Assuit, EG;
Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, El Mansoura, EG;
University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
Methods for segmenting medical images from different modalities include integrating a plurality of types of quantitative image descriptors with a deep 3D convolutional neural network. The descriptors include: (i) a Gibbs energy for a prelearned 7th-order Markov-Gibbs random field (MGRF) model of visual appearance, (ii) an adaptive shape prior model, and (iii) a first-order appearance model of the original volume to be segmented. The neural network fuses the computed descriptors to obtain the final voxel-wise probabilities of the goal regions.