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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Magnus Fredrik Wahrenberg, Edinburgh, GB;
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara, JP;
Abstract
A medical image processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: obtain medical image data comprising or representative of image data values and segmentation values for pixels or voxels of a volume; specify a sampling point within the volume; select a relevant pixel or voxel for the sampling point from a set of pixels or voxels neighboring the sampling point, wherein the selecting is based on a difference of an interpolated image data value at the sampling point and an image data value for each of the neighboring pixels or voxels and a distance between the sampling point and each of the neighboring pixels or voxels; and determine a segmentation value for the sampling point based on a segmentation value at a position of the selected relevant pixel or voxel.